On Sunday, I watched most of Super Bowl ex ex ex eye ex (39 for non-football folks). It was the only football game I saw this season in its entirety. For the most part, the Super Bowl isn't about the football game. It's about everything before, in between and after the football game. There's the pre-game show, kickoff show, halftime show, post-game show and, of course, the multi-million-dollar commercial spots. Honestly, I would be happy if they had a pre-game halftime show, followed by a commercial-free game, followed by a game-free showcase of commercials.

This year featured the New England Patriots taking on the Philadelphia Eagles in Jacksonville, Florida. New England won their third championship in four years by a score of 24 to 21. The two preceding sentences were boring, but I know I'll appreciate them next year, as I jot down highlights from Super Bowl Extra Large.

To continue the tradition of last year's bullet points from Super Bowl 38 (ex ex ex vee eye eye eye for you football types), here are things I want to remember from Sunday's main event:

• Former presidents Clinton and Bush, Sr. looking adorable in their matching blue suits.
• Philadelphia's Westbrook and Pinkston and New England's Dillon and Faulk for reasons I won't remember in another month.
• McNabb throwing multiple interceptions and Brady fumbling a play-action fake.
• Paul McCartney's safe, but unremarkable halftime show of four songs: "Drive My Car", "Get Back", "Live and Let Die" and "Hey Jude".
• Three challenges to referee calls leading to three reversals (2 Eagles, 1 Patriots).
• T.O. proving his critics wrong with some amazing plays.
• Careerbuilder.com's chimpanzee commercials, a series of three spots featuring a lone human employee trying to survive in a corporation owned and operated by chimps.
• Brady to Branch (again and again) and Brady to Vrabel for a Super Bowl touchdown, two years in a row.
• Philadelphia's last dawdled drive, down by ten, with less than five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. They took their time like a team unaware they were losing or unconcerned with winning.
• Ameriquest's "don't judge too quickly" commercials. Both were hilarious. One featured a convenience store clerk and his wife wrongly beating a man after mistakenly thinking his cell phone conversation was a robbery threat. The less violent spot featured a guy preparing a pasta dinner for his girlfriend before she gets home. While he's busy dicing ingredients, her white cat jumps onto the stove, knocking itself and a pot of sauce to the floor. The girlfriend comes home just as the guy is lifting the red-stained cat from the mess with one hand, unknowingly still holding the huge cutting knife with the other.