How I Missed the "Wardrobe Malfunction": A True Story
The following essay was written especially for Mommybloggers by our featured blogger, Sarah.
Anyone who knows me or reads my blog knows that I am a huge
football fan. The Super Bowl is my Easter. I love football, I love
food, I love beer, I love tv, what more could I ask for? So in honor
of it being Super Bowl week, I have decided to tell you a story about
how I watched the entire Super Bowl one year and missed the one part
that everyone talked about the next day.
I don't know. Maybe this is actually more of a non-story.
Whatever, I'm going to tell you anyway because I still can't believe
this happened.
Let me set the stage, Super Bowl XXXVIII, February 1st - I know it
must have been 2004 because I was 100% sober during the big game.
This obviously means I was pregnant. It was the New England Patriots
versus the Carolina Panthers and it was a really good game. It is
half time, and there are four people in my living room. We are
talking and watching the half time show. I see Janet Jackson
and Justin Timberlake. Four of us are watching this stupid half time
show (I'm still not sure why we hadn't changed the channel) and not
one of us noticed the infamous "wardrobe malfunction"
.
I HAD TIVO! WE WERE RECORDING THE GAME! We could have rewound (and
you call it rewinding if it's digital?) it and watched it if only one
of the four of us had noticed something funny. Two of us were not
even drinking. How did we miss it? I still don't know. One of the
most famous of all Super Bowl non-football related moments and I
completely missed it. It was worse than the time we turned off the
Jets game right before a drunk Joe Namath told Suzy
Kolber that he wanted to kiss her. (How did I function before You
Tube?)
To recap: I was watching, I had TiVo, I was sober, and yet not one
of the four of us (and the other three were all straight men) saw
Janet Jackson's boob until the next day.
I'm not sure why I felt the need to tell all of you this, but I do
feel better getting it off of my chest (get it? Sorry, that was a
crappy joke) and it seemed appropriate to talk about it this week as
a tribute to the NFL's biggest game of the year.
I also want to thank Jenn and the other Mommybloggers for being so
great and featuring me this week. Thanks ladies, I love what you do.
Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah
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