Worst Superbowl

I don't really expect too much from champsionship games (including series). It is a rare, rare thing for the two best divisional teams to meet in their respective ultimate games. So many things can happen from the beginning of the playoffs to the end that the uncertainty of the season is mirrored for us, albiet in a much shorter form. There are truly very few great championship games. Of note, the last few games yielding a sparkling ring that interested me were 1997-98 Bulls/Jazz saga, the 1996 Braves/Yankees ("They have surmounted every challenge, they have climbed every mountain..." - John Sterling), and the 2002 Patriots/Rams.



This game, as the pinnacle of pinnacles, sucked.

Saying that, I don't think it was a bad game. There were some truly great plays. All of them involving the Steelers, of course. No surprise there, they did win. However, I can count those great plays on one hand without using all of my fingers. Some argue that great football isn't about great plays. They define great as in huge 40 yard gambits. Sure, great plays include the gob-smackers. But great plays are also the smaller, consistent yard chewers exemplified and manifested by teams reaching 15 plus first yards per game. And hot damn if both the Steelers and the Seahawks didn't do anything to promote what good football looks like.

Neither team deserved to win the Superbowl, of all things. Ben Roethlisberger was inconsolable after the game? So he should have been. He played pathetically...for the most part. That's the incredible thing, there were two or three plays out of Ben which were reminiscent of his amazing performaces in the past 3 games. And here, there was almost nothing to give credit to the Steelers for winning the most recognizable sports tribute in the world (apart from the Olympic medals).

I believe history will have to look at the Steelers' overall performance in the playoffs in order justify their win in Superbowl 40. And so they should, even if this was the greatest Superbowl in history. The Steelers got to Detroit the hard way and deserved every accolade based on that alone. It's just too bad that the Pittsburg Steelers' 5th Superbowl title came in such a lackluster way.

I was so surprised at the lack of emotion on the field as the last seconds of the Superbowl ticked away. Sure, everyone on the Steelers looked happy. I loved the grin of Bill Cowers. Even the Steeler fans looked a bit happy. But everything else was just so...................uninspired. I was happy to see Jerome Bettis, Hines Ward and Cowers have their moment. I was thrilled to watch some incredible plays (and incredible blocks) unfold. But, overall, the game disappointed even the least bit of expectation.

Also....

What the hell was up with Mike Holgren after the game?

Did no one else see Bill Cowers waiting in the middle of the field in order to shake Holgren's hand? Cowers waited for near enough 5 minutes before the camera, after focusing on his rather impatient scowl, cut to commericial and came back to watch the set up of the stage for the presentation. I have seen nothing in the media about this, which may very mean Holgren was simply delayed and the two head coaches met off camera. Of course that would only point to shoddy camera work - which I wouldn't disbelieve as those idiots missed Bill Cowers standing under a deluge of gatorade.

Really, I was just thoroughly unimpressed.

Go Steelers anyway.