Hey, make fun all you want. For the Super Bowl, the pre-game shows begin, give or take, about a week before the Big Day itself. If you really want to be ridiculous, you might argue that the pre-game shows start at the beginning of the season, since each game leads up to the Super Bowl Sunday. But regardless, it's pretty much a guarantee that starting at 8 am on the big day, you can turn on your tv to a multiple number of channels, each with their own posse of four retired football players, each in a pinstriped suit, and frothing at the mouth about each team's chance this year. Lots of talking over each other, review of stats, graphics, review of game plays, and countdowns to kickoff, which is at some random time, like 5:54 pm or whatever. Don't get me wrong, it sounds like I'm making fun, but I'm not. I get it. The excitement. The anticipation. The dry cleaning of one's best pinstripe suit. The relentless scouring of sports pages and stats. The placing of bets. I'm all over it. So what does this have to do with the Bach'ette? Do you seriously need to ask?
Granted, the Bach'ette doesn't have two teams exactly, and aside from ABC's Bach'ette web page, I don't have much to review except a picture, an age, profession, and hometown/current town of each of our players. So let's get this gong show started:
DeAnna is our 26-year-old Bach'ette, who went home brokenhearted after Brad Womack left her at the pre-altar without a rose. Or, according to her, an explanation. What we know about DeAnna:
She's greek (how many times will we hear her referred to as a Greek Goddess in the next few weeks?). Cool grandpa who has a trail of women following him everywhere and is always up for some ouzo. A pretty cool dad. A mom who died when DeAnna was quite young. A blinking problem (watch for it). Probably not a lot of gal pals (remember how nobody liked her at the start of the Bachelor?). And she's a real estate agent from Georgia.
A sampling of the Playahs:
(note: I'm only picking of few of the top dogs and interesting cats at this point. Thorough review to come post-show).
These are my predicted top dogs. From left to right, Richard (science teacher), Jeremy (real estate attorney), Graham (pro basketball player), and Eric (financial analyst, who is coincidentally, greek). Note how none of them look like her past dude, Brad Womack, aka B-Dub from here on out.
The interesting cats:
From left to right, we have Chandler (insurance representative - hello Chandler Bing), Luke (an oyster farmer with a face (and hairstyle) that probably only a mom could love), Jesse (a pro snowboarder), and Spero (an actor. Seriously. Good luck, dude).
So there are many more guys to check out tonight, 25 to be exact. And we all know the first cut is the deepest, so who knows who will even be left standing after tonight's rose ceremony.
And, after some thought, some blogging, and some dusting off the pinstripe suit, I've realized that this post isn't a pre-game show like those for the Super Bowl, but more of a pre-season show. We're just getting to know the teams, we've seen a little bit of action from DeAnna, there are some clear competitors and some clear Miami Dolphins. So don't forget to tune in, set your pvr/tivo, whatever. Enjoy the season!
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