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With the NFL football regular season wrapping up, it’s time to start thinking about playoffs and the Super Bowl!

Being the big football fans that we are, we were pretty disappointed in our hometown team (the Chicago Bears), but that doesn’t mean we can’t still enjoy the game and cheer on the commercials and the halftime show!

Each year the NFL, and their sponsors, put on an extravagant halftime show that rivals some of the best live performances on the planet. Of course, this show can be hit or miss depending on the artists involved, the sponsors involved, and just the show itself. We’d be lying if we said that every year was better than the previous year, but there have definitely been some unforgettable acts to hit the Super Bowl stage.

Last year Pepsi presented Dr. Dre with guests Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar (with special guest 50 Cent). This year Apple Music has taken over the reigns as the sponsor of the show and they are bringing Rihanna to the stage.

And

New year, new you! It’s time to get those New Year’s resolutions in order as we make our way into 2023.

While you can always start getting healthier regardless of what time of year it is, many people like to start off fresh on January 1^st. Healthy eating and exercising are two of the most commonly made New Year’s resolutions. Everyone wants to look and feel a little better and the new year is a great time to start working towards that goal.

Here at Sportdecals, we love physical activity. We encourage everyone to get outside, or out to the gym, and take part in your favorite sport or exercise. Physical activity is a great way to keep your body healthy and in shape as we move through the years.

Let’s take a look at some great exercise related New Year’s resolutions that you can make this year. These activities will help you feel better and look better in the New Year. Combine these with some healthier eating habits and you might just be surprised at how much of a difference it can make

If you were in high school in the late 1990’s or early 2000’s then you have no doubt played a game called pickleball. Pickleball was a great way to introduce those people that weren’t great at tennis to a similar sport, but without the insane dexterity and speed sometimes associated with tennis.

It might come as a surprise to a lot of people, but pickleball has started making an epic resurgence at park districts and country clubs around the country. If you would have asked us 20 years ago which sport from your gym class, do you think that people would be obsessing over in the future, I’m not sure that anyone would have guess pickleball, but here we are, and it’s bigger than ever.

Pickleball is a sport that transcends age and lends itself to both young and old people looking to get a great exercise without having to overexert themselves in ways that other sports can. There are tournaments and open gym opportunities in almost every community in our area and across the country, so if you’re

Virtual Reality (VR) seems to be all the hype these days. Everywhere you look people are talking about the latest VR headset, which company is going to be the first to develop the metaverse and all of the other possibilities that come along with it.

One thing that not a lot of companies are talking about yet, at least in the mainstream, is the ability to workout and exercise in VR.

Virtual reality offers a unique way to experience exercise classes as well as various forms of workouts. It allows for you to do yoga in a desert in Africa, climb Mt. Everest, or even ride your bike through areas that you would never have imagined. Working out in virtual reality is a great way to switch up your workouts and experience things like you would never have imagined.

If you’re not a person that typically works out or exercises on a regular basis, you may even find that playing some of the more popular games in VR can give you that same amount of exercise that jogging outside or lifting light weights

Super Bowl Facts You Didn’t Know

Baseball and cricket may seem similar in the fact that they both require players using a “bat” to hit a ball while trying to score points, but the games are very different from one another. Baseball has long been known as America’s pastime and has been a staple of American sports since it was invented in the 1800’s. While baseball, and the rules as we know them, was not invented until around 1846 in New York, it derived its ideas from games like cricket and stickball played in other cultures. So, while American’s might thing that they were the ones that came up with the idea of two teams hitting a ball with a stick, they would be mistaken. The first reference to cricket is dated around the late 1500’s and was referencing a person that had played cricket as a young boy in the 1550’s. So, while baseball has been around for a while, Cricket most certainly pre-dates it by a couple hundred years. However, the first official international cricket match, was played between Australia and England