What is up with Roman Numerals? Did some Roman drink too much wine and get up hung over one morning and say, “Ya know, Maude, our present number system is really boring. How would it be if we assigned letters for some of the more significant numbers and sometimes add and subtract them backwards instead of forwards? Division and multiplication will be impossible. We could make it so confusing that we’d be the only ones who understood it. For thousands of years to come, kids around the world will hate us. Eventually someone will invent a game that makes M’s and M’s of dollars and it will have our numerals in front of its name.”
And that’s how Super Bowl XLI came to pass. That’s pronounced ‘Super Bowl Eckselleye’, and isn’t a bad name, all in all—rather distinguished, if you ask me. It wouldn’t take an incredible imagination to convert it to ‘Exceli’ and market it as a new super hero: “Hey, kids, are you bigger than all the rest of the kids and mean to boot? Well, forget those books, just grab a football and don’t forget to take your steroids. Remember our motto:
Run fast, jump high, you could be an Exceli.
Take some drugs and buy a gun, Exceli is lots of fun!”
Oh, by the way, just in case you’re living in a biodome in the Marianas Trench and a pressure leak forced you to the surface this morning, it rained in Miami last night. Nothing else important happened there.
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