The highlight of Super Bowl Sunday was supposed to be hanging out with my new friend from Georgia, and taking her to her first hockey game. Capitals vs Penguins, sitting 2 rows into the upper deck ... on one of the louder regular season days for the Verizon Center faithful. Long story short, the day didn't start off as planned, and it was for a reason that was completely out of my control. But hey ... the game must go on, and go on it did. The Caps played a great game ...
... all over the ice. Fighting for loose change in front of Fleury, killing off penalties, scoring goals however they'll get in there, and ultimately shutting out the Pens. Marcus Johansson was absolutely fantastic throughout this whole game. Flying up and down the ice, killing penalties, and scoring short handed to put the Caps up 2-0. This was one of the best games I've seen Marcus play all season long. All in all, the Pens fans in the house were quiet throughout the whole game, and one even went as far to say (after the Caps were dominating play and already winning 2-0) that "the Caps/Pens game didn't matter too much because Pittsburgh fans were already planning the parade for the Super Bowl win." I've never heard of a fan base that turns so quickly to some clichéd response to get over their teams losing a game than the Pittsburgh fans. If you remember in the Winter Classic write-up, Pens fans first response, after losing in their home Winter Classic, was "well, how many Cups do you have?" ... and today was no different, as the Caps/Pens game wasn't even over before the Pens fans had already moved to the next thing they could feel empowered as a fan base about. As you've seen above, the Caps added a goal of the EN variety to close out a 3-0 shutout and begin what's going to end up being an amazing Super Bowl Sunday.
Herman ends up going to the game with me, rocking out his USA Ryan Miller jersey, and then him and his wife are hosting a Super Bowl party at their house. A quick stop off at the Lansdownne Inn for a couple beers, a round of Golden Tee (which I won again), and picking up some wings for the party before heading back to the party. By the time we get there, people have already filtered into the house to watch the Packers take on the Steelers. The game ends up being pretty boring, the halftime show was forced and somewhat awful, the party was a bit of a drunken mess, but at the end of the game green and yellow confetti was flying everywhere. The Packers just won the Super Bowl. I don't really care much about football, so this win doesn't mean much to me. I just like seeing the Pittsburgh fans eating their own words. I hope they still have their parade, I mean ... it's obviously been planned already.
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