This was originally uploaded to DeviantArt on February 12, 2023.

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"When I was offered "field tickets" for the big game today, this really was not how I expected things to go."

Happy Super Bowl Sunday to all of my American friends, from a fellow American who doesn't care about sports! I question why I even made this but I guess sudden bouts of inspiration and a desire to draw will do that to you.

Here we have Cookie, who as he said, appears to have been offered a ticket to tonight's local game, described as "field tickets." Usually, you'd think this would mean he'd be fieldside, where the players and coaches sit. Instead, he's found himself in the [un]lucky position of tonight's ball! Tightly squished into a familiar shape and coated in a primer meant to help keep his shape, Cookie is even put on a stand during pre-game shenanigans for fans and press to look at and take pictures with before he's sent to the field to be thrown around. They even gave him a little bit of paint to look like the real thing! So how long into the game before he's flat as a pancake? Won't that be a whole new level of Inflategate.

I had a lot more fun putting this together than I anticipated, I did this in two days rather than one because messing with effects bogged my computer down to a disgustingly slow crawl. While my computer is only 4 years old, the hardware inside of it is showing its incompetency. Anyway, I did the coloring one day and then the background the next, which was a little bit of a challenge to think of one. I had known from the beginning that I wanted to put Cookie on a display in front of a backdrop but as someone who doesn't watch sports really at all, I had to come up with something and what I came up with was a green background with the endzones on them; if you know your Morse code (at least for the one on top), that's a stylized version of it that does say a word if you can make it out!

Anyway, that's all I got for this one. Thanks for looking, and enjoy the game! 🏈