The Super Bowl

by Brian (DaBolts) on Feb 2, 2009 8:08 AM PST

The Super Bowl is the cherry on top of the season. Usually it is a lot like that cherry, it looks great, but when you bite into it, it isn't any damn good. And having looked at that cherry for two weeks from every conceivable angle, where it came from, how it got there, who it's parents were, what church it goes to; when you finally get to eat it there is that disheartening, 'Really? That's it?'

This was not that Super Bowl. This was everything you want out of the game. Great defensive plays, a mighty comeback, and a culminating drive in the final moments. In the end it the key wasn't a sophisticated defense or sublime offensive play that put one team over the top, it was a busted playground where kids are scrambling around trying to make something happen screaming 'I'm open'. This is the game I always picture the Chargers winning, this year it is the Steelers and good for them. A big win for a city beset with woes from a financial crisis that has rocked the economy. In a time when everyone is worried, our politics are fractious and split, the nation still sits down, almost as one, and forgets the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune to watch grown men play like hell; and best of all play like kids.

So here's to the Steelers and Cardinals who played phenomenal football and for three brief hours allowed a nation come together and whoop it up.

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James Harrison

should be fined and suspended indefinitely for his antics on the field yesterday. Our player was kicked out of the game for trying to get up off the ground and Harrison was allowed to complete the game after engaging in a NHL like one-sided fight on the field.

Brady Hoke, Al Borges, and Rocky Long. Aztec football is back!

by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Feb 2, 2009 5:06 PM PST reply actions

Maybe they should take away his Super Bowl ring

Wouldn’t that be something. Punishment fits the crime. Embarrass the league on its biggest day, you lose the biggest prize.

1-10-DEN 18 (9:52) (Shotgun) 6-J.Cutler pass short right intended for 19-E.Royal INTERCEPTED by 93-L.Castillo (95-S.Phillips) at DEN 18. 93-L.Castillo to DEN 14 for 4 yards (62-C.Wiegmann). 6-J.Cutler pouts ob to DEN 25 for 11 yards.

by Wonko on Feb 3, 2009 12:13 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs

What people should remember about this Super Bowl is that the Steelers were out-played and won on the strength of favorable refereeing and luck.

Bolts from the Blue // "Game over." - Jamal Williams
Bloody Elbow // "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken

by Richard Wade on Feb 2, 2009 5:57 PM PST reply actions

hmmm

sounds like 2005. Ben remains the most overrated QB ever and proof that you don’t need a good QB to win a superbowl if you surround them with great players. Put him on almost any other team and he probably couldn’t cut it as an NFL starter. Congrats though.

Brady Hoke, Al Borges, and Rocky Long. Aztec football is back!

by Sam (sdsuaztec4) on Feb 2, 2009 7:39 PM PST up reply actions

I think you've gone too far

Ben is still a good QB, I’d take him over many in the NFL. But, it definitely crossed my mind on Sunday, “If Rivers or Brees were out there, he’d be tearing the Cardinals to shreds”. And for anyone one wondering, no I don’t think Eli could have done better than Ben on Sunday.

by Wonko on Feb 3, 2009 12:11 AM PST up reply actions