The Super Recap

A quick recap after a fun Super Bowl Sunday...maybe too fun for a couple of the guys that I watched the game with. SNOW DAY!

1. The pregame programs are way too long. I like football alot and I can't even watch from 10am to 6:30pm, all about two teams, the same five players and the same five story lines we have been hearing about for two weeks. Maybe I'll feel differently when the first week is all about the Pro Bowl next year.

2. The number of commentators on the panel of the NBC program show was ridiculous! Why do they really need 11 different talking heads, especially when one of them was Matt Millen.

3. Huge gut-check day by the Cardinals defence. They held the Steelers offense in the red zone to FG on two situations where they could have easily been broken and the game would have been over.

4. "Big Ben" is one strong dude. The Cardinals defence was draped all over him on several occasions, only able to force him to throw the ball away, instead of sacking him for big losses.

5. Larry Fitzgerald really is that good.

6. Someone is going to pay Santonio Holmes big money to be a number one wide receiver somewhere and he will be out of the league in 3 years.

7. Really thought the officials should have reviewed the "fumble" by Kurt Warner with 5 seconds left in the game. They took the time to review the same play in the first half and overturned the call. Had that play gone the other way, an incomplete pass, add the 15 yard unsportsmanlike penalty on the Steelers, the Cards would have had one hail mary from 34 yards out - that is something that Fitzgerald could have pulled down.

8. The commercials were lame. CTV obviously had big problems getting companies to purchase ad time. There were some breaks in action when the only commercials were promos for CTV shows. Why can't we just get the American feed.

9. Not really a huge Springsteen fan, but he put on a pretty memorable performance. He enjoyed himself, and seemed pretty amused with himself after running crotch first into the camera guy. There were alot of people on the field and just impressed with the NFL for moving everyone on and off the field.

10. The officials were too big a part of the game last night. Terry MacAuley and his crew made several mistakes and a couple other big misses. Two of the calls were overturned after Ken Wisenhunt challenges and then there was the last play of the game (see #7) they missed. The big misses included a huge block in the back during James Harrison's pick-6 at the end of the first half and some crazy holding, roughing the punter, roughing the holder calls that all kept Pittsburgh drives alive.