Football fan or not, seeing the MVPs from all past Super Bowl games was awesome! Some of those guys look as if they could take the field right now. Didn’t Lynn Swan look terrific?
Why can’t singers of “The National Anthem” sing that glorious song the way it was written – on key and on tempo? Everyone, it seems, believes Francis Scott Key’s version didn’t quite make the grade so they jazz it up, slow it down, tweak it, moan the words into the microphone – make it darn near indecipherable and destroy its beauty. The song’s words and music are meant to be majestic, not made into some rap, country or soul version of the artist’s most recent hit. My vote for the next president goes to the candidate who says it’s an egregious violation of national pride to violate the anthem in such a way. To heck with anyone who waves freedom of speech or artistic license under my nose. Mutilating “The National Anthem” is just wrong.
Did you see Stevie Wonder’s 4-year-old son playing the drums in the pre-game show? Wow!
My favorite commercial so far is one for a movie whose name I can’t even remember. All I can recall is this line: “The people shouldn’t be afraid of the government. The government should be afraid of the people.”
Mike Holmgren has been my favorite coach since about six months after he took over in Green Bay. I’d love to see him walk away with a win in the Extra Large game. On the other hand, Jerome Bettis is a class act. A win for the Steelers in Bettis’ hometown wouldn’t be all bad.
I’d like the Steelers’ quarterback a lot better if I could spell his name. But I guess I could give it a try. B-e-n. Ah, that wasn’t so hard.
Fox does a much better job of covering football than any other network.
With all the pre-game hype that begins weeks ahead of the actual game, the obscenely priced tickets and even more obscenely priced ads, the halftime show that often falls flat – it’s still just a game. Often, a dozen or so better and more exciting games were played during the regular season. This one was not bad, though.
On the other hand, you gotta say Mick Jagger was almost worth the price!
What’s with all these celebratory dances when a player scores or makes a play he’s paid to make? Can you imagine what Vince Lombardi or Tom Landry or George Halas would have done to a guy who pulled a stunt like that?
The Steelers stole that second-quarter touchdown. The ball was clearly down BEFORE B-e-n pushed it over the goal line.
Congratulations to the Steelers. They’re all going to Disneyland, I guess. (I’ll still take Holmgren as my coach.) I’m going to bed and say a prayer to the gods of football that Favre plays one more year, and takes the Packers to Miami.
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