Super Bowl XLI Running Thread

Mike Freeman checks in: http://www.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9974859

MIAMI - Truth is, any Super Bowl featuring the fabulously crappy Rex Grossman is going to be dreadful.

And this championship game was stinky. Just awful. Beginning with the weather. It rained steadily. There were more ponchos on hand than decent plays. Prince needed cover for his fabulous bouffant.

And something for his eyes, too. Poor Prince. He left the pretty and paisley Prince mansion for this? I was worried one of those gold-fish-filled high heels would attract a lightning strike.

The Bears and Colts played football like it was 1899.

You know a Super Bowl is bad when Adam Vinatieri misses a field goal and I miss Terrell Owens.

The only way this game would have been worse was if the Buffalo Bills were in it.

The Muddy Bowl, Rain Trance, it was raining cats and fog.

etc.

wow

 

Yeah, they had to plan around a shitty quarterback. :

 

Agreed.
Every time I started to feel bad for him, I remembered him calling the media ignorant and I remembered I hated him and I hoped he would throw even more interceptions.
I loved the outcome and I love Grossman having a crappy game, just like the Green Bay game.

 

As someone who barely looked at the TV in the corner of the newsroom while laying out pages and somehow stayed away from SportsJournalists.com for the duration of the game, I cannot wait to watch this game on DVR some time in the next 24 hours.

 

I watched the entire game, but didn't post, so I can't wait to read this entire thread. I love reading running threads after the fact, it provides immense amusement.

 

Whew ... and pant-pant-pant.

So, what's been the consensus in here? 30 words or less.

 

Rex Grossman sucks leper balls would prettymuch sum it up, I think.

 

Yeah, I think that dog'll hunt.

 

Terry "Tank" Johnson
Chicago also has a Todd Johnson, so the rules allow for first names on the jersey if a team has more than one player with the same last name, and their first name starts with the same initial.
Named after an aunt, Lovanna.
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/columnists/mark_purdy/16603946.htm

 

Agreed. Addai racked up his 10 catches by early in the third quarter, when Rhodes took over on the ground. I wouldn't be able to vote for one in good faith without voting for the other, too. And for those who don't like to split votes, there was always Manning, who called all the right plays and made all the right throws (save for that early pick). He got picked when he tried to go deep on the first drive, so he took what the Bears gave him underneath after that.

And BYH, I agree about Prince at halftime. Great performance, easily the best since U2 after 9/11. It's not often we get the traditional great rock performance at Super Bowls.

 

Almost as much amusement as that provided by the contrarian fucks who thought it would be cute to spout off about how the Bears were so criminally underrated and had a chance in this game.

 

Addai's plays were exponentially more valuable than Rhodes'.