Super Bowl

The Super Bowl was last Sunday, and I think it's fitting I talk about it as my first blog post. Almost everything has been said about it though so I'm going to just keep this short and sweet.

Firstly, I took the Steelers at 3.5! So I made some small cash, but I was actually rooting for the Cardinals (had to root for the underdogs). Anyway, that game was absolutely terrible until the fourth quarter. Here were some of my observations:

• That James Harrison interception was one of the greatest plays I've ever seen, but no one really seemed that excited about it. Everyone was basically like "That was a really good play. Amazing," but didn't show any real excitement. All the talk was Santonio Holmes and referee-ing, yet that was the only above average play of the first three quarters, and one of the best big game plays in recent memory.
  
• Ben Graham is an absolutely terrible punter, and this is a rare case where the punter helped to change the outcome of the game because of all the field position swings he engineered.
• How was Harrison not thrown out for that Assault he committed following one of the punts? Held the guy down, hit 'im a few times then threw him to the ground... Don't know about that one.
• I was 100% sure that, during the third quarter, the refs had done what I did, taking the Steelers at 3.5. Two straight 15-yard penalties (that facemask! no way!) followed by that Running Into the Holder penalty! I didn't know such a call existed, and beyond that, Adrian blatantly tripped and did not intentionally bowl over that guy. The end was better, though I think they should have definitely reviewed it, that WAS a fumble.
  
• In the fourth quarter, the Cardinals finally decided to be their true selves. Throwing left, right, and down the middle to Fitz, Quan, and Stevie (as I affectionately call the best receiving corps in the NFL) and using the no-huddle. Now if they had done this the whole game, and not pretended to be a rushing team when they are really the worst rushing team in the NFL. Every year, these teams that are really one-dimensional or gimmicky make it to the Super Bowl, and they try to play like a real team. Don't do that! Play the way you've been playing. It works. That's why you are there.
• Kurt Warner played well. Yeah, he fumbled and threw a pick. But that's what he does. It's Kurt.
  
• Finally, I was not that impressed by the Santonio Holmes' catch. Don't get me wrong, it was a great catch, but it was not the greatest play in Super Bowl history. It was a great catch that gets matched every four weeks during the NFL season. Now, if he had made the one the previous play where he was nearly parallel to the ground about 5 feet off it, then that would've been something entirely different.
  

I'm going to have to leave by giving it up to my roommate Ryan, who is from the Burgh and got to see his team win their 6th Super Bowl!


(photo courtesy of Getty Images)... I don't know if I'm allowed to do that, but I just did.