Super Bowl Haiku Challenge
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012

The Patriots and Giants will square off in the Super Bowl next Sunday. Do you suddenly have the urge to write Haikus? We do.

An Invitation

Tree awaits soft breeze
Frog leaps…No! Instead, writes some
Super Bowl Haiku!

And so should you, because it’s that time of year again. Only A Game will be featuring the near-legendary delights of Super Bowl Haiku once again on the day preceding Super Sunday. It’s a tradition as hallowed as chips and dip and guacamole stains in the new carpet. So share your candidates with us and with our listeners by posting them in the comments below. Who knows? Maybe one of your efforts will crack the line-up and be read by one of the Only A Game Hut-Hut Haiku Players on our February 4 program.

Luck, both good and bad,
Touches – lightly – heavy men.
May good luck touch you.

If you’d like to listen to the Super Bowl Haikus from previous years, check out the pages from 2009, 2010, and 2011.

 
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  • Muddydoggers

    What would Tebow do?

    Is Timmy home Bradying,

    maybe Manning up?

     

    Block, tackle, and run. 

    That went nowhere.  Now let’s try:

    Block, tackle, and pass.

     

    Here we go again.

    New England versus New York.

    Here we go again.

     

    Lady Madonna

    provided halftime intrigue,

    twenty years ago.

     

    Tens of millions yawnat endless overtime rules.Oh, for sudden death! 

    Can’t warm up to this

    pointless bonfire of dollars.

    The dogs need a walk.

    James
    Denver, CO via WCPN, Cleveland

    • http://onlyagame.wbur.org/ Gary Waleik

      Dear Mr. Muddydoggers-
      One of your lovely haiku made the cut this year. If you’d like to be credited, please let me know what name to use.
      Thanks,
      Gary

  • Muddydoggers

    Not that it is the greatest, but for some reason, this one ran together:

    Tens of millions yawnat endless overtime rules.
    Oh, for sudden death! 

  • Muddydoggers

    Did it again, but not as much!?!  Should be a line break after yawn.  

  • Baxter

    Giants Patriots
    Who wins the Super Bowl
    Watch TV anxiously

  • Baxter (Take 2)

    Giants Patriots
    Who will win the Super Bowl
    Watch your TV anxiously

  • Ghm575

    end-of-tunnel light
    shining in February
    listen to them roar

  • http://www.facebook.com/dougcurlin Douglas Curlin

    Patriots will lose
    In Indianapolis
    And will write craiku.

  • Peter Kootsookos

    Superbowl season,
    Pats and Gs go head to head.
    Lombardi on show.

  • Peter Kootsookos

    Superbowl haiku:
    Make Japanese poetry
    Wrestle pop culture!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000016790086 Barbara Bixler

    At home in Indy

    Football fans running amok

    Ask me. Do I care?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000016790086 Barbara Bixler

    Though Colts aren’t in it
    The wealthy pay to watch games
    We watch the commercials

  • Frank McNulty

    Dome the prairie night
    From the masculine sublime,
    Fighting men in tights

  • Guy Burney

    Non-doubting Thomas
    Versus Prophetic Eli
    Whose verse shall prevail?

  • Guy Burney

    Can the Patriots
    Achieve a Giant mistake
    To win a trophy?

  • Anonymous

    Super Bowl Haiku -
    Look left, right. Fly to the catch.
    - Superb Owl Haiku!

     

    For Super Bowl verse
    we seek five syllables, like
    “Wardrobe malfunction.”

     

    In Indiana,
    In Indianapolis, …
    Oh, drat. Never mind.

     

    Effeminate ring.
    Unfit for Founding Fathers.
    Let the Giants win.

     

    A New York minute
    with clock-stopping strategies:
    A Giant minute.

     

    Boring P.A.T.
    only matters when it fails.
    Pointless irony.

     

    End of first quarter.
    Not much accomplished yet, but
    That’ll move the chains!

     

    Replay it again!
    Human bodies don’t bend there.
    Replay it again!

     

    Great offensive line.
    May the heaviest team win!
    I love this country.

     

    Twenty-two bright men.
    In college, they all learned how
    to use their brains [up].

     

    My marching band played
    a prophecy for the team:
    “Killing Me Softly.”

     

    Frank Deford! Please stop!
    Talk of tragic concussions
    gives me a headache.

     

    Please do not inform
    my NPR-loving friends
    that I like to watch

     

     (Sorry for all this.
    Last night, a long (but fun) bout / of insomnia.)

  • John L Navarre

    Osi, Pierre-Paul, Tuck
    Do Football Giants line make
    Wilfork makes his own

    Here comes Tom Brady
    Lucas Oil is Manning’s House
    is foreclosure nigh?

    Manningham, Cruz, Nicks
    Bilichick is ready for you
    Maybe call Tyree?

  • S H

    snowflakes, frosty breath

    sweat, crashing helmets, The Wave

    barley and hops, win

  • becky

    Stuck in traffic
    Late for work
    Hate the Super Bowl

  • Virginia

    Go New England Pats
    You have what it takes . . .  sometimes
    Please have it this time

  • Virginia

    Run Green-Ellis Run
    Run little Danny Woodhead
    Spare Gronkowski’s foot

  • Anonymous

    A fresh haiku try
    Yearning to repeat triumph
    Of two thousand ten

    (I was ecstatic to hear my haiku read over national radio in 2010, even if you pronounced my name to rhyme with “stick” rather than “rich.”  Here’s an opportunity for redemption!)

    Cleats meet open wheels
    Gentlemen, start your pigskins
    Super Bowl in Indy!

    Manning-crazy town
    The brother is bittersweet
    At least, not Brady

    Snow skittering, icy wind
    Face burns, nose runs, ears numbed
    It’s bona fide football

    • http://www.onlyagame.org Karen Given

      We’d love to identify you correctly, should one of these make the cut. But you didn’t give us your name this time around! Please reply here or send us an email at oag@wbur.org.

  • Aaron Snider

    Dad turns on the game
    Mom watches the commercials
    Hot wings, burning mouth.

    Super Bowl halftime
    Million dollar commercials
    And if time football.

    Mean Joe Greene drinks Coke
    Apple smashes big brother
    Budweiser frogs.

  • Steve B.

    Eli, glad you’re here.
    Welcome to Indiana!
    So how’s Peyton’s neck?
    Â
    -Steve B.
    Indianapolis, IN

  • Lois Gridley

    Not One…Not Two…Three!
    And this one makes Four. No more!
    It’s time for LACROSSE!

    Super Bowl Sunday
    The name alone is the first
    Line of a Haiku
    Â
    UNO’s Bowl will hold
    Ten thousand deep dish pizzas
    For the deployed troops!
    Â
    New York and Boston
    Again. No bi-coastal game    Â
    In Indy this year.

    -Lois G.
    Syracuse, NY

  • http://twitter.com/LanguageOlympic Andrew Hanson

    If Gronk boots his boot,
    Pats’ chances get giant boost;
    Gostkowski needs his.

    http://www.fivesevenfivesports.com

  • Gloria Tanner

    Brady’s bunch, mighty
    Play book of Eli, feeble
    Pats — Giants’ slayers

    Faulty kick askew
    Quoth the Ravens, nevermore
    Phew! Tom Brady sighs

  • Barton Rickey

    Middle of Country
    Indianapolis Rocks!
    Pats/Giants Again!

  • Basho

    Human meatgrinder
    Armored giants haunt my dreams
    Stick fork in my eye

  • Gandalf

    Giants secondaryÂ
    The Desolation of Smaug
    So sayeth Brady

  • Andrew

    Peyton cleared to playÂ
    In Indianapolis,
    But he’ll have to wait;

    Brother Eli’s there,
    With Brady – the most elite;
    May the best man win.  

    http://www.fivesevenfivesports.com

  • John Arminio

    Melted nacho cheese
    Cleavage and beer commercialsÂ
    Football, if there’s time   

  • Netmain

    Rob Gronkowski
    And Tom Brady:
    Heroes, I see.
    Pats win Lombardi!

  • Mary

    Pats’ safety: bad start.
    Giants’ oops TD: good end.
    Ads, half-time: what the…?

  • Mary

    Inches, seconds, will,
    Love, luck, fate, muscle, planning:
    All decide such games

  • Mary

    “Our hearts were full..’ said
    Tuck, about Coach C’s pep talk.
    Love: splayed on the field.

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