Super Bowl Limericks
A Super Bowl LVIII Limerick
Kansas City Chiefs 25
San Francisco 49ers 22
Feb. 11, 2024
Notes:
* This was the second Super Bowl OT. (The first was in 2017.)
* What a difference a year makes! We didn't pay any attention at all to 13 during the last Super Bowl. But this one, oh my.
Super Bowl 58: 5 + 8 = 13
February 11th: 2 + 11 = 13
Halftime score: 3 to 10 = 13
In the third quarter, when KC already had two field goals and then scored a TD and the PAT was good? 13 points
* Oh, and Reba McEntire sang the national anthem. Usher and friends had quite an entertaining halftime show.
Super Bowl LVII
Kansas City Chiefs 38
Philadelphia Eagles 35
Feb. 12, 2023
Notes:
* As soon as the AFC and NFC champs were determined, I knew I'd never find anything to rhyme with one Kelce, much less two of them. Brothers Travis and Jason.
* It was a you-score/we-score/couple of ties type of game, which is pretty much the best.
* Chris Stapleton sang the national anthem. He's from Lexington, Kentucky, so I'm two degrees of separation from him.
* Rihanna was the halftime performer. My tutoring student (tutee?!?) told me she would be the singer and I said, "Oh, let me show you her touring guitarist. His name is Nuno Bettencourt and he's a doll." The eighth-grader involuntarily shuddered and rolled her eyes, knowing what was coming. A YouTube show & tell.
"No," she said.
"Oh, just wait until you see how cute he is. Hang on, lemme show you some hair bands of the '80s first, since they kinda just popped up automatically."
"No!" she screamed, because I was inflicting pain upon her eyes. She lowered her voice a little and said, "They look like my nana's dog."
Sigh.
But RiRi put on a fabulous halftime show!
AFC Conference Championship (in lieu of a Super Bowl poem this year?)
Cincinnati Bengals 27
Kansas City Chiefs 24
Jan. 30, 2022
Notes:
* Evan McPherson, Bengals kicker, is 22 for 22 on the season, 12 for 12 in the post-season, 4 for 4 in the AFC Championship game. In his ROOKIE YEAR, y'all. First year on the job.
*Kickers have always fascinated me. Do they have ice water in their veins? 24/7 on-call therapist? hypnotist? Jupiter aligned with Mars? What?
* This is the first limerick I’ve written about a conference championship.
* Cincinnati is the de facto NFL home team for Lexington, Kentucky. An hour and change away, it is the closest pro football city. I think… haven’t checked it in a few years.
Super Bowl LV
Kansas City Chiefs 9
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31
Feb. 7, 2021
Notes:
* Brady is a machine.
* I thought about rhyming "acid reflux" (the easy-peasey rhyme was just too easy).
* I remember when Vinny Testaverde wore a tangerine uniform. Creamsicle. Watching the Miami Dolphins in their aquamarine and Bucs in the creamsicle… well, the ‘80s were so much fun.
* LV in Roman numerals means 55 in English numbers. Why, oh why, did the branding/graphics team put the Lombardi trophy in between the L and the V? It looks like LIV. Which means 54 in English, DUHHHHH.
Super Bowl LIV
San Francisco 49ers 20
Kansas City Chiefs 31
Feb. 2, 2020
Super Bowl LIII
New England Patriots 13
Los Angeles Rams 3
Feb. 3, 2019
Note:
* I had more fun looking up old Rams names (Fearsome Foursome! Rosey Grier and his needlepoint, Merlin Olsen and Little House on the Prairie, Deacon Jones and the other guy) than I did finally scribbling out this limerick.
Super Bowl LII
Philadelphia Eagles 41
New England Patriots 33
Feb. 4, 2018
Notes:
* Bradley Cooper was one of the fans in the stands.
* So I used Cooper Hewitt font for this one.
* This is my favorite Superb Owl limerick. It really wrote itself. But it's very inside baseball and you had to know your performers and commercials and all.
Super Bowl LI
New England Patriots 34
Atlanta Falcons 28
Feb. 5, 2017
Trivia:
The first (and only, as of 2021) overtime game in the history of the Super Bowl.
Notes:
* In the pregame show, The Schuyler Sisters' rendition of America the Beautiful was delightful. “And crown thy good with brotherhood . . . and sisterhood.” Yes! Katharine Lee Bates wrote the original poem in the late 1800s, but you just know she would love the 2017 update.
* Then Lady Gaga's halftime show. Wow. What a performer giving it everything and then some. Fabulous. And how about the PianoArc, invented by her keyboardist?!
* As for the professional athletes on the field, I kinda like this new trend of each team getting the chance to feel like winners (see also: 2016 World Series). The Falcons dominated the first half and surely experienced the thrill of being champions in the locker room at the half. Then the Patriots wound up taking home the Lombardi Trophy for the fifth time, but for the first overtime win in Super Bowl history.
Super Bowl L
Denver Broncos 24
Carolina Panthers 10
Feb. 7, 2016
Notes:
* L for large.
* There were a lot of bathroom-oriented commercials during this broadcast, so a few of us may have referred to it as the Super Bowel.
Super Bowl XLIX
New England Patriots 28
Seattle Seahawks 24
Feb. 1, 2015
Notes:
* Why in the actual why were the 49ers not in Super Bowl 49? Where were the fairy godmothers on this one?
Super Bowl XLVII
Baltimore Ravens 34
San Francisco 49ers 31
Feb. 3, 2013
Note:
* Alicia "Girl on Fire" Keyes sang the national anthem. Beyoncé was the halftime performer "Run the World (Girls)." Love.