Super Bowl XLIII Post Game
by John Morgan on Feb 1, 2009 7:19 PM PST
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Good game
but in my opinion, it sure looked like Warner’s arm was going forward. How was that at least not reviewed?
I agree completely
Insane game that was a ton of fun, but man, that play has to be reviewed, doesn’t it? Not 100% that it had to be overturned, but it has to be reviewed.
I also agree. Many calls were questionable. So was that neglectful oversight.
Could the stripes just not wait to hand Pittsburgh the trophy, or what?
To an extent...
This is what I had hoped for with the ‘Hawks Super Bowl; losing sucks any way that you slice it, but at least the Cardinals were part of one of the greatest games ever. I’d feel a lot better if Super Bowl XL had been this awesome, win or lose.
I hope FO has an 'Audibles at the Line' for the SB.
I can’t wait to hear the comments from those guys, particularly about the officiating and the Harrison incident. Should be good reading material.
I didn't see it,
but the episode where Jim and Dwight get performance reviews was hilarious! I love it when Dwight does a mock call with Jim and Jim acts like Dwight is all rude, then demands to talk to the manager, then tells Michael that he will give him a million dollars of business, which excites Michael and Dwight to no end, but then Jim demands that Dwight be fired, and Dwight begs for his job. Best scene ever.
Horrible. Absolutely horrible.
The show has been on a serious decline since the start of the 4th season, and last night’s show was the cherry on top. I think I’m completely done with the show. It was so good for the first three seasons, but I no longer want to keep investing my time in a show that probably will never be that good again.
Thank god for It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
This season of Flight of the Conchords is off to a rough start as well. Sigh…
I will smash your face into a jelly.
by Phil Hatzenbuehler on Feb 2, 2009 11:52 AM PST up reply actions
What a sham.
This was like XL but tenfold more exciting.
"Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do."
4 exciting minutes does not the greatest sport make
It was fun game to watch at times, but the Nadal/Federer match was far more entertaining.
Wait, are you talking about tennis?
lulz
"Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do."
by Fearless Frog on Feb 2, 2009 9:16 AM PST up reply actions
Shut up!
It makes me feel more secure about my manhood by dismissing other sports other than football as wimpy. Mwahahaha…ha.. D=
"Part, fools!
Put up your swords. You know not what you do."
by Fearless Frog on Feb 2, 2009 9:13 PM PST up reply actions
The Steelers earned it this game.
Most of Arizona’s penalties seemed like stupid mistakes, not bad calls. It was a solid game and exciting and intense right to the end. One of my favorite super bowls…even though it included two teams I can’t stand.
Yesterday's Pants
A blog-thingy about the Mariners and stuff.
I can't believe the Cardinals had the game in the bag
but then let them go right down the field. Shit, they even made Santonio Holmes look good.
"It's just one big guy against another big guy, both teams know what's at stake. The one of them comes out on top and it feels good."
-Chris Collinsworth, Madden 09
Not a big fan of that graph.
At the point in the 4th quarter where there were 10+ minutes left, Arizona needing two scores to take the lead…the graph is at 97-100% for the Steelers? Really? That’s not the game of football that I know. And the Cardinals made that look silly.
Well 97% sounds about right to me
13 point lead with about 12 minutes left, how often does the typical NFL team blow that? Maybe 3% of the time. And remember this was the #1 defense in the league.
And yet...
where does the heart part of football come in? Maybe I’m thinking like a coach instead of a statistician…but isn’t that what football is really all about? And we are talking about a team that was only up 12 because of a mostly fluke 10-14 point swing at the end of the half. There’s the 12 points right there.
The heart part comes in that 3% of the time.
Probably less than that too, if you consider the times the other team chokes, or if the penalties did more than the team trying to make a comeback.
by SeaTownBlueDevil on Feb 2, 2009 5:01 AM PST up reply actions
The 10 point lead the Cards erased
was the biggest ever in a Super Bowl. So, yeah, I suppose that 97% was about right. Then, to turn around and lose it… Sigh…
Even today I’m saying, "Damn. I can’t believe they blitz Roethlisberger (on the catch and run with Holmes) when he is so much more inclined to make bad plays when you lay off him and make him go through progressions.
"Those who fear disorder more than injustice inevitably produce more of both." -- Rev. William Coffin
That corner/safety going the wrong way
Then falling down letting him get another 20 yards certainly didn’t help either.
From hero to goat in just one minute
When Pittsburgh barely got that last snap off before the 2min warning, half of Arizona’s D looked like they thought the play was dead. That Safety was the only one that stayed with it and broke up that deep bomb to Washington.
Right while I was telling someone how that’d be the biggest unsung moment in the game … he slips on the Holmes catch.
The NFL … she can be a cruel mistress.
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