Super Sunday at Mike and Jana's

Over the weekend, most of the Plowmans gathered up at Mike and Jana's home in Layton to watch a football game that is usually broadcast on TV at about this same time each year - one that rhymes with Cooper Goal.

Dave and Kira showed up to root for the Green Bay Packers, a bandwagon onto which most of us also jumped:


If you missed out on this year's broadcast, then you honestly didn't miss all that much. The music, which began with Christina Aguilera's overdone maiming of "The Star-Spangled Banner," did not get any better at halftime, during which the Black Eyed Peas seemed to be doing their best impersonation of screaming like medieval knights having boiling oil poured onto their heads. The commercials were not all that great, either.

Far more fascinating than the game, though, at least for me, was spending time with the kids, and that included witnessing the amazing gaming skills of my two-year-old nephew, Jackson, who absolutely schooled me in a few games of "Angry Birds" and who spent much of the afternoon occupied with his parents' iTouch, lying in this position:


Green Bay, incidentally, beat Pittsburgh 31-25, winning the NFL title.

Good times were had by all . . . except for Steelers fans.