Some football game = the Super Bowl. Or the Superb Owl, as Stephen Colbert calls it. I hope you feel better soon - is it possible that football makes you sick? Because it has that effect on me lol.
I don't have a really solid answer to your cere question. But based on the cere discussions and research of the last couple days, I have the impression that blue color in the cere is associated with testosterone, and that males get intensified blue color in the cere when they're hormonal. In general it apparently isn't as noticeable as the color changes in a hen's cere. But maybe it can be very noticeable in a male with a mutation-related pink cere. The website at
http://cutelittlebirdiesaviary.weebly.c ... guide.html says the cere color in recessive pied adult males is pink to purple. I had assumed that this was an unchanging color, but maybe it's actually variable.