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The Super Bowl, while a decent enough game between two of the game’s best teams and two of the league’s best quarterbacks, honestly bored the Hell out of me. I believe part of it was because there weren’t really any big hits, amazing catches, or really big plays. Both the Colts and Saints seemed to drive at will and would only have drives stopped because of mistakes on their part, except for the goal line stand towards the end of the first half (only reason Colts didn’t score at the goal line at the end of the game was the ball went right through Wayne’s hands).

It’s almost as if both Brees and Manning were too good at finding the open receiver and too good at putting the ball right where the receiver could make the easy grab. There were no David Tyree catch-the-ball-off-your-helmet moments or ones where a player like Larry Fitzgerald just proved he was a man among boys. It was quality football between two fantastic offenses and a few defenses that made some huge plays every now and then — the TAINT (touchdown after interception) and the Freeney sack.

Maybe the bigger problem is that I liked both teams and honestly didn’t give two shits about who won the game. I was clapping for scores or big plays by either team and was mainly just hopping it was a close game throughout. My biggest disappointment was the TAINT that ended the game instead of the Colts being able to tie it and possibly put the SB into OT. I’m glad Brees got a ring and am extremely happy that the Saints won a SB for the first time ever. But, if they had lost I wouldn’t have really cared that much. I guess that’s what honestly bored me the most. It’s much easier to get excited if you really love one team or really hate the other. When you’re indifferent and just want a good football game, it’s hard to get all that emotional.

Oh, yeah, it also didn’t help that the ads mostly sucked and the half-time show was 30 years past due.

There were a few good ones, but my pick for the best commercial during the Super Bowl goes to the Conan O’Brien one. It just left me in stitches.

During the Super Bowl and after one of Larry Fitzgerald’s many miraculous plays, we decided that from now on that he should be referred to as simply, “Better Than You”. The reason being that we figured that when he’s making some of these amazing catches, often with perfect coverage on him by the defensive back, that he must be thinking to himself as he’s going up for the grab, “I’m just better than you”, as he snatches the ball out of the air. He’s just been doing that kind of crap for as long as I’ve watched him play, which goes back to his college days. He’s an amazing player and thankfully he’s a class act character as well.

First, I want to say that I don’t think it effected the outcome of the game. The Steelers won and the chances are that they would’ve run even if the fumble was overturned. Nevertheless, I feel completely ripped off as a football fan that the final play for the Cards was NOT reviewed. Regardless of the outcome, the play SHOULD have been reviewed. I’m pissed that it wasn’t and  that the announcers completely ignored it despite talking about it in depth. It’s embarassing as a fan of NFL football. I feel ashamed and I feel ripped off. This could’ve been on of the greatest Super Bowls ever but it ended up a joke.

Not quite as active as last week, partly due to the fact that Super Bowl Sunday was as big of a downer on my traffic as it was to Bill Belichick’s ego, but there were still enough of your emails for me to update. Enjoy!

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It might only be February, but it seems highly unlikely that there will be a better play in 2008 than the one in Super Bowl XLII where Eli Manning miraculously avoided a sack and then David Tyree came down with one of the greatest catches that I’ve ever seen. Even if it were to have happened in the regular season, it would have been a big deal, but it happened on the game winning drive in the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl. A Super Bowl where the mighty New England Patriots were chasing perfection and immortality only to be dethroned thanks in part to this one particular play. The only thing that would’ve made it better if it was for the game winning touchdown. For those that missed it or want to see it again, here’s the play via Youtube.

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It might have been because I had the worst hangover ever, but the first batch of Super Bowl commercials that aired in the 1st quarter and into the 2nd sucked major balls to me. It wasn’t until a string of three straight commercials at some point close to halftime that I actually found any to be funny. These were some of my favorites (in no particular order).

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My plan to jinx the Patriots by predicting a blowout worked!!!! I am so unbelievably happy right now, no words can really describe the emotions I’m feeling. My sports life has been so crap over the past five plus years that I’ve been getting most of my joy out of seeing teams I hate do poorly. The New England Patriots going 19-0 would’ve been extremely hard to stomach. But to see them go 18-0 and then choke in the Super Bowl is without a doubt one of the greatest things I’ve witnessed in my lifetime as a sports fan.

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I’ll be rooting for the New York football Giants, but I think it’s a forgone conclusion that the Patriots are going to win this game and finish off their 19-0 “perfect season”.  The only question is whether they’ll win a close game or in a blowout. My money would be on the blowout because Belichick has had two weeks to prepare (or cheat) for this game and should have no problem confusing Meli. Final Score — Patriots 45 Giants 13.

In more exciting news, keep an eye out for my friend, Porsche Lee Briggs, in the Gatorade G2 commercial starring Peyton Manning! She’s apparently one of the “hotties” in the luxury box with him or something. FYI, she’s the pretty girl in the Flickr photo stream at the top of the page.