Well, the 58th Super Bowl is over.

Was it a good game?

Did your team win? Do you remember who played or the score?

Did you count the number of times the cameras focused on Taylor Swift?

Did you wash down too much warm chili with too many cold beers?

How about the game, the real money game - The commercials? Which one was your favorite?

I liked the Budweiser horses delivering beer to a welcoming tavern.

Here is the Final Jeopardy question.

Do you know who made their fancy beer delivery wagon? Cue the tune.

The answer is (drum roll please) Studebaker.

Yes, Studebaker. Few will remember that name as an auto manufacturer. Fewer more will know the South Bend, Indiana concern once made fancy horse-drawn carriages and wagons.

I am not making this one up. Several years ago, I saw the Budweiser horses at a parade. I asked the driver who made the wagon. He said it was a Studebaker.

Sorry, that factoid just popped into my aging brain and, for a minute, I couldn’t resist playing Jeopardy host.

Back to the game: Did you enjoy (or even get) the halftime show?

Better yet, did you turn the whole thing off when you discovered the Patriots were not playing? Did you then click on the Foodie Network and watch some celebrity chef (nobody ever heard of) explain how to make a greasy hot dish out of sawdust (gluten-free) and a vegetable that looked like a small burrowing animal?

No matter, for the Super Bowl is the over-the-top unofficial holiday Americans love so well. It's Las Vegas - Baby.

Most of us don’t follow the two teams. Do you know a die-hard New England Pats fan who follows and roots for Kansas City or San Francisco?

No, we like our home teams. Go Pats. Go Sox. Go Celts.

Some die-hard Mainers would confess their dream team might be Tom Brady, Larry Bird or Ted Williams.

We all know sports fans follow their heart. Many fans do not follow the mechanics of the games, and few can explain why coaches call for a jet sweep or signal for a pick and roll. Only a few fans know why the catcher calls for a heater or sweeper with two out, two strikes, bases loaded, and a .345 hitter at the plate.

Most fans just want their guy to win, and bury the other team in the dust.

In some ways, the 2024 presidential campaign is like the LVIII Super Bowl. Both feature a lot of hoopla and hype. Both involve lots and lots of money. And both welcome lots and lots of passionate fans.

Today's passionate Republican fans love their front-runner. He is their hero. They reject any potential negative issue. To the political fan, it does not matter. They don’t stop to figure it out. They just ignore the faults. He is their guy and some consider anyone who brings up anything negative to be a dog, a scoundrel, a socialist/communist, a son of Satan, and worse.

The Democrats love their front-runner. Like their rivals, they ignore his faults.

And they defend his age, not as a problem, but as an asset-wisdom and experience. His defenders proclaim that anyone who dares to speak otherwise is a Nazi, a Fascist, a racist, unAmerican, or worse.

Neither side wants to acknowledge that both candidates are elderly and are prone to occasional memory lapses. The Republican is 77. The Democrat is 81.

Over time, the elderly, like the old Budweiser Studebaker beer wagon, tend to wear out.

In case you didn’t know, I am an old man. I know all about the golden years. I know the aches and pains, the joys at finding out that things I once relied upon, including my brain, no longer work like they used to.

The presidency is the toughest job in the world. If something should happen to him (God forbid) the vice president moves into the Oval Office.

We pay little attention to the vice president. He or she is a human spare tire to be trotted out only in case of an emergency.

Political lore ignores the veep, except for bad jokes - like the pundit who said the vice presidency isn’t worth a bucket of warm spit. At least that is what they said at the time.

They are correct, unless something awful happens, and suddenly you find Teddy Roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, or LBJ running the country.

I believe Republicans of all stripes love their country. I believe Democrats on the right and left do too.

Maybe both sides should spend a little time focusing on the number two candidate.

Because candidate number two might just be promoted.

Just asking.