Wow. Just: wow.
I'd love to write about the Super Bowl all day, but there are other nagging tasks. Namely, the tasks that pay my rent.
But today is a day when I'm kind of sorry for the people who don't like football. What an incredible sport and what an amazing game. Last night's finish--a (and it's hard to believe this is true when I type it out) 83-yard, 12-play drive inside the two-minute warning, ending with a TD with just over 30 seconds left--was almost impossible; more rare than the buzzer-beater or the walk-off home run. You hope for it, but so rarely get it, so when it happens, it's magic.
I always have new favorite parts of football; those little bits of the game that you never see until you start analyzing the game to ridiculous levels. Last night's game gave me a new moment in football to crave and love: the late fourth-quarter, four-point deficit. It's that moment when a team has a chance to win the game, but only with a TD. No field goals to tie: a TD or go home. It's happened several times in this year's playoffs, and it was perfect that the Super Bowl ended the same way.
Brief notes:
- As if anyone else questioned that Bill Belichick is a noteworthy asshole in a profession known for assholes, that he stormed off the field before the game was even over proved it. I second (third? 3000th?) the opinion that he'll retire to avoid all the questions of cheating and...being--and I can't emphasize this enough--a total dick.
- Okay, maybe Eli Manning's a jerk for what he did in his draft year, but come on: besides Patriots fans, how could you not love the goofy grin of glee he had after that game? You just want to tousle his hair.
- In all of the talk of Randy Moss's amazing season and the fact that he had Tom Brady throwing passes to him, everyone seems to have forgotten that he's choked before. And he choked again.
2 comments:
It was incredible wasn't it? I mean I couldn't have cared less about the two teams and never in my life did I think I would cheer for the New York Giants but I throughly enjoyed the game despite all that.
And yes, I did want to tousle Eli's hair!
I was talking to my sister, and she loved the game too. She said she didn't really watch much until the very end of the game, but that was enough for her. She also reminded me that after the Redskins were whupped by the Patriots, that I hoped that the Pats would go undefeated, so that they could lose in the Super Bowl. It's like a dream come true...
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