Same stuff. Different Supe.

Well. At least you've still got the Puppy Bowl, non-Patriot Nation.

Or a good book (The Blob can recommend a few.)

There's a couple decent movies out there. Netflix always has something going. And, of course, you can probably find a few "Law & Order: SVU" reruns knocking about, because Benson and Stabler are eternal, hallelujah world without end, and Munch and Fin, too.

Otherwise ...

Well, otherwise, Super Bowl Sunday will give us a team that probably shouldn't be there (the Rams) vs. a team that's there every freaking bleeping-bleep year (the Patriots.) So here come two more weeks of numbing repetition -- Tom-Brady-is-the-GOAT, the Genius Of Bill Belichick, Isn't Robert Kraft A Fine Man, blah-blah-blah -- plus the compliant media trying desperately to make Los Angeles look like the pro football town it isn't.

Or the Super Bowl participant it shouldn't be, frankly. Although it bears mentioning the Rams dominated the NFC title game for most of the last three quarters and overtime -- they outscored the Saints 26-10 in that span -- ultimately the MVPs were the zebras, who blew that obvious pass interference at the end of regulation which would have left the Saints with a chip-shot field goal to win.

Instead, the Saints won the toss in OT, Drew Brees threw a pick on a ball he probably should have eaten, and the Rams cashed their own field goal for the win. And because this is that kind of time in America, out came the Grassy Knoll People, sensing some sinister plot on the part of the NFL brass to get the L.A. market into the Big Roman Numeral.

This is, of course, patently absurd. The first rule of any successful con, after all, is to make sure the mark doesn't know he's being conned. Obviously blowing an obvious call hardly meets that standard. So if this was some sort of dark conspiracy, it was an extremely clumsy one.

No, this was just more bad officiating, a season-long plague in the NFL. The focus on just two games Sunday only made that plague more obvious; in addition to the non-call in the NF game, there was the equally ridiculous roughing the passer call against Chris Jones of the Chiefs in the AFC game, and a number of other examples, too, most of them having to do with pass interference (or not.)

In any case, this is what we're left with two weeks from now. The Blob can't speak for the rest of you, but I know what I'll be doing when Tom Brady is hoisting the Lombardi Trophy again, as seems perfectly inevitable now.

I'll be thinking, "Damn, Stabler really went rogue that time."