I suppose I should say something about the Super Bowl. Sloppy game. The two-week layoff really hurt the Steelers, who had been playing at a very high level for about seven or eight straight weeks. Roethlisberger made maybe three good plays the entire game. Shovel pass off a scramble, scramble while staying behind the line and a long completion to Hines Ward on 3rd and very long, and maybe a scramble for a first down in the 4th that helped burn the clock. As TMQ notes: "Pittsburgh won despite Ben Roethlisberger finishing with a 22.6 rating. If every pass a quarterback throws falls to the ground incomplete, his rating is 39.6." Yowza.
From 1992 through 2006, ten Super Bowls have been decided by ten points or more. There have been thrillers, such as all three New England wins by three points and Tennessee coming a yard short of overtime in 2000. But blowouts have led to complaints that the commercials outshone the game itself. I didn't buy it until this year. And while they weren't spectacular this year, there were some I particularly liked:
The Wave, where an entire stadium does the flip-card thing and makes a beer pour into a glass.
Macgyver, because hey, he's Macgyver baby!
Touch Football, where the girl taunts the guy and he spears her after she catches a pass. Not that there's anything funny about violence against women, of course.
The Sheep Streaker. All of the "horses playing football" commercials have been good.
The fridge-worshipping commercial and the fixing the roof commercial have garnered praise, but I have a soft spot for pretty much any Emerald Nuts ad.
You can view all of the ads here.
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