February: Superbowl and my Brother's Homecoming

OK, it's about time I posted a new journal.  The month of February has been so busy, I haven't been able to.  Anyway, let's go down the list of events, shall we?

THE SUPERBOWL:
You might've noticed that I was really worked up about this game last month.  If you watched it, perhaps you noticed how TOTALLY AND COMPLETELY BIASED the stupid media was.  They interviewed JUST our quarterback for a couple minutes but interviewed what seemed like half the Steelers team and spent easily twice as long on each of them than they did on our guy.  They also took every opportunity to ridicule the Seahawk players and praise the Steelers during the game.  And why were the Steelers made the favorite to win when Seahawks played a MUCH better year?  I thought this country likes the underdogs.  Even the referees were against us.  All of Seattle seemed to be in an uproar about it.  My dad even pointed out one instance where the ref called our quarterback for illegal blocking when he was trying to TACKLE.  In short, the whole thing was extremely in-your-face unfair.

Now I'm not blaming our loss on that, though I will say it was a factor.  Of all times to do so, our team really tripped up.  We had great plays but players cursed with butterfingers.  -_-  Perhaps our team was rattled by all the disrespect they were getting for those weeks leading up to the game, but that shouldn't have been too bad because the media and co. have disrespected the team ALL YEAR.  Oh well.  I'm not bitter about loosing; I really don't mind that part.  It's a game and while it's nice to win, that's not everything.  I'm just bitter that we couldn't prove all those jerks WRONG.  The injustice of it really bites.  All in all, this is going down as possibly the most controversial Superbowl EVER thanks to the crummy refereeing.

Anyway, the important thing is: WE MADE IT TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!  It's never happened before and that is something worth celebrating.  ^_^  I still see Seahawk stuff in stores (including a T-shirt that gave the a nice sum-up score of the game:  Seahawks 10, Referees 21) and a lot of people still supporting the 12 Man (dunno how that issue is going; I haven't heard much since the game).  So we're doing OK, despite the fact that apparently we're just gum on the bottom of the nation's shoe.


MY BROTHER:
Now on to a more important issue:  MY BROTHER IS BACK FROM HIS MISSION!!!  My big-little bro (he's the oldest of my 2 little brothers) served a 2-year mission for our church in the states (I don't have his permission yet to say where) and he got back on February 15.  He's been trying to adjust back into civilian life.  Kinda hard, but he's a rather easy-going guy so he'll manage.  In addition to applying for college and trying to get a job, we're attempting to catch him up on all the stuff he's missed such as movies and junk.  I'm kinda bummed that I spend so much time at school; I don't get to hang around with him much.  But Spring Break is coming soon, and maybe we'll do something then.


Anyhow, there's more to talk about but I'll hang it up for now.  I'll rant and rave about the other things, such as my new Gameboy Zelda game, some other time (like, after I finish it).