Many people suggest healthy, nutritious snacks for this Sunday. Balderdash.
Healthy snacks for Super Bowl Sunday, the collective national rite where real Americans drive drunk to gather on home couches and watch 300-pound men with enlarged hearts give each other concussions and torn ligaments live on digital television? Hardly. Save those healthy snacks for watching touch football or cricket.
Sunday’s menu is a single word: Pizza.
It’s not too early to look at the numbers for Super Bowl XLIV:
XLIV=44 (forty-four, quarante-quatre, vierundvierzig, cuarenta y cuatro, quarantaquattro, tetratetraconta).
Factors: 44 = 1 x 2² x 11
Divisors: 1, 2, 4, 11, 22, 44 1, 2, 4, 11, 22, 44. Sum of the divisors=84
Base 2: 101 100; Base 3: 1 122; Base 8: 54; Base 16: 2C (my buddy lives in that apartment!).
Interstate 44 runs from The Illinois/Missouri state line, past the I-44 Speedway in Oklahoma City, to Wichita Falls, Texas. It is mentioned in C.W. McCall’s song “Convoy.”
+44 is the international telephone code for the United Kingdom and “Plus 44″ is (or was) the name of some kind of rock group.
Title 44 of the United States Code pertains to publication of public documents.
Barack Hussein Obama is the forty-fourth President of the United States.
“44″ is the title of a Washington Post blog.
Element 44 on the Periodic Table is Ruthenium (symbol: Ru).
Retired NFL number 44s: Floyd Little (Denver Broncos) and Pete Retzlaff (Philadelphia Eagles).
In baseball, 44 is a “hitter’s number,” the retired uniform number of Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey and Reggie Jackson.
The Roman Empire was divided into 44 provinces. Julius Ceasar was assassinated in 44 BC.
