Super Bowl XLI Running Thread

Where you been Columbo? Thought for sure you'd be reveling here all night.

 

The people who pay attention around here, who have a brain, know where I was on this game.

I think I enjoy battling when the pricks around here on an issue where they think (KNOW) I am wrong.

I enjoy that teaching exercise/battle much more than the gloating after it has become so obvious that I'm right that even the dunderheads who litter this board (not you, my idiot savant) can't find a wormhole to squirm into to deny it.

But it is nice.

 

Well, let's be honest: Peyton didn't have a Steve Young-esque catharsis.

But that's picking nits.

 

I've thrown a soaked NFL ball.

You obviously haven't.

 

Well, since I have no proof you ever threw a soaked NFL ball, this argument is irrelevant.

And he wasn't soaked when he was having trouble getting untracked in the first quarter.

And Buckweaver is right: While the Colts should have won this game by four TDs, the Bears could have taken the lead late if Grossman could do anything right.

 

Rhodes carried the ball three straight plays for 11 yards in the second quarter, with the last of those runs being the go-ahead touchdown to help make it 16-14. Colts never trailed again.

In the third quarter, Rhodes started one drive with a 36-yard run -- the Colts' longest run of the game -- to the Chicago 28. The next play, he ran for 8 yards, but tack on another 15 for a personal foul facemask, so now first-and-goal at the 10. Rhodes carried for 8 more yards on third down before the Colts had to settle for a Vinatieri chip shot to make it 22-14.

I don't see how Addai's plays could have been "exponentially more valuable than Rhodes' " tonight. Then again, given that you believe that Addai is a better back than Edgerrin James -- and that Frank Gore trumps LaDainian Tomlinson -- that comment probably shouldn't surprise me.

 

Well, criminally speaking, Tank got a lot of props beforehand.

 

Not

Not being contrarian. Sincerely thought that's how it would play out. Indianapolis was better than I thought.

 

1) Apparently it's OK to advertise an Internet sex crime snuff film over and over again as the premise for the next episode of "TV's hottest drama" to be shown after the game, but it's NOT OK to broadcast Janet Jackson's bejeweled nipple from 50 yards away for a half-second.

2) Tony Dungy was a genius when he called the time out before Vinatieri's kick at the end of the first half. He realized no one else had called time out and the clock was almost expired. No way a white head coach makes that call.

3) Coke, very proud of itself for inventing Black History Month and apparently being on hand for every major civil rights moment of the past 50 years.

4) The Browns' QB is just as good as the Bears' QB.

 

This has been my biggest problem with TV sports ever since my kids started watching them with me. CBS and Fox promote their violence-filled shows throughout the games, including the Super Bowl. If I'm not quick on the clicker, my 8- and 6-year-old boys get an quite an eyeful. I'm not against these shows, nor am I against their being advertised. But they either have to realize that families watch football, too, or they have to tone down the ads. My kids don't need to see another gun/explosion/corpse/rape victim/torture scene.

 

anybody else think Dungy should have gone for it on 4th and goal from the 1-yard-line after the running into the kicker penalty?

if you kick, you're up 22-14, a one-possession game and you still have to kick off to Hester. if you score from the 1-yard-line - and they were running all over the place against the tiring Bears - you're up 26-14. if you go for it and fail, you're still up 19-14 and the Bears start out on their own 1-yard-line. I'd rather be up five with the bears' offense on the field starting out at their own 1-yard-line when they had to that point I believe only two plays over eight yards than kicking off to Hester up eight points. as it turned out, they got the field goal and, sure enough, after the kickoff, the Bears were already on the Colts' own 40-yard-line after a short kickoff and a penalty.

the way the game was going, I think the Colts' best chance to score was to go for it and at worst put the Bears on their own 1-yard-line

just a thought

 

The day after, and I'm not sure what was worst:

Weather
Grossman
The game
The commercials

Shitty all around.