Arriving Somewhere

While Super Bowl XL wasn’t the worst championship game of all time, it certainly ranks in the bottom ten.

I’m neutral when it comes to the Seattle Seahawks and Pittsburg Steelers - I have no great love or hate for either team. I thought it might be nice for Jerome Bettis to finish his career a Super Bowl champion, but I also thought it would be nice for Seattle to win their first Super Bowl ever. I ended up rooting for Seattle - mostly because they’re from the west coast.

What an incredibly disappointing game. Bad play from both teams and horrible officiating. It was quite obvious who the refs wanted to win. How about the Seattle touchdown that was called back for offensive pass interference? Okay, so maybe Jackson bumped the DB, but that was a totally weak call. Can anyone honestly say that Big Ben actually got the ball across the goal line during his TD dive? There’s no way! How about when it was 14-10 in the fourth, and Seattle’s Stevens made the catch to make it first and goal at the two. Oh wait, that one’s getting called back for holding. Except, the official must have been hallucinating because no one was held. To aid insult to injury, Hasselback’s tackle following his interception was deemed a personal foul.

I’m not saying Pittsburgh didn’t deserve to win. Seattle certainly had many dropped passes, or passes just barely out of bounds to look like a Super Bowl winner. But Pittsburgh sure got a lot of love from the zebras.

There were a few highlights: the beautifully executed trick play in which Antwaan Randle El threw a touchdown pass; the 76-yard interception return by Seattle; the blocking on the 75-yard run by Willie Parker. Hm, I guess that would be about it. Which would make the highlight reel about 10 seconds long.

In the end Bettis got his ring - even if performance left something to be desired. And I suppose you can’t help but be happy for Bill Cowher, the man has coached Pittsburgh for 15 years and finally won the big one.

I guess it would take too much karma to have a great Super Bowl only a month following a one vs two, USC vs Texas national championship game.

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