to all the super-haters

Quite a few redditors went out of their way to point out that they weren't watching the Super Bowl, but our traffic logs reveal an interesting dip in traffic. Kudos to Chris for noticing it.

Some of us were multi-tasking, but quite a few redditors left their monitors to watch the game after all. I suspect the calls from the living room convinced a number of even the most steadfast redditors to catch the drama of the 4th quarter.

(time in EST)

super bowl, super raspberry-turtle

Granted, plenty of redditors were obviously not watching it, but we actually did see a dip in traffic thanks to this U.S. holy day. All of team reddit was watching, half of us with laptops, but watching nonetheless. What was predicted to be a landslide turned out to be a fantastic upset and four quarters of great football.

I've had a tradition of making the following Monday's logo celebrate the victorious team (and every year I keep getting told the Vince Lombardi Trophy looks too phallic) but this year I found my inbox full of requests for a raspberry turtle logo (you have to see the photo). I think I'm going to cave and do that one tomorrow. The tiny turtle/raspberry combination is too cute to pass up -- it combines two of my favorite foods.

Just kidding!

(Well, not entirely, I do like raspberries. And there's usually more turtle to eat when they're a bit older.)

Oh, and did anyone else notice the number of dot-com ads? Jeremy pointed this out right around the second SalesGenie ad. This bodes very well for 2008...