Running Supe XLII/42nd Large And Important American Football Game Thread

If I'm not mistaken, Norwood hadn't made a field goal on grass from that distance during the regular season. It was already going to be a tough kick before factoring in its importance.

 

you know how bostonbred likes to stir the shit.

 

If that's your standard, you have to put XXIII in there too, with Montana leading a 92-yard TD drive in the final three minutes.

 

Oh god, I didn't even think of this.

You know it's going to be a classic. I doubt he'll be pissed.

 

I'm not arguing any of that. But that point remains that he missed the kick, and thus, the drama of that Super Bowl was over.

It doesn't matter whether it was a chippy or a field goal attempt the length of which would make Tom Dempsey pee his pants, the game turned on a failed play. It was the seminal moment of that Super Bowl.

Tonight's seminal moment was Manning-to-Tyree, a moment that was as sublime as it was lucky and clutch all rolled into one. That's all I'm sayin'.

 

I agree with you on both points. I think Norwood receives far too much blame for that loss. And the one play everyone's going to take away from this game was Eli's Vince Young-esque escape and heave and Tyree making the leaping catch.

 

I see your point, but that Super Bowl was pretty much dreck to that point. I didn't think tonight's game was dreck even in the early stages. Plus, there is no upset factor for Bengals-49ers II.

 

Another underrated moment: Rookie DT Jay Alford making up for his bad long snap in Lambeau with that sack of Brady on New England's final drive.

 

If ESPNews' broadcast of the postgame press conference is to be taken into full account, no one asked Belichick about leaving the field early.

Unbelievable cowardice, if this is true. On both ends of it.

 

Norwood hadn't made a 47-yard-or-longer kick on grass in his career.

I won't argue Bubbler's point, though. The emotional pain from watching that kick sail wide was surpassed only by the physical pain of cracking my head on the endtable as I fell backward onto the couch. Might have been easier to take if it had ended as tonight's game did, with a fourth-down incompletion...

 

They may not have gotten a chance. Judging by what's on nflmedia, this could rank with the shortest PCs in Super Bowl history:

 

Any chance that given the madness of the final minutes of the game, nobody in the press room saw him walking off? FOX only showed a second or two of him walking off.