BITE YOUR TONGUE!!!!!!! There's an entire freaking mountain range between us and "that" city!!
Good article, especially when you read the whole thing (it's short). By Cris Carter: "The difference in the game for the Seahawks was not taking advantage of a dominant first half. Seattle allowed the Steelers to get their feet underneath them and then watched Willie Parker break free for a 75-yard touchdown run right after halftime. In the end, it was too hard to overcome that 11-point deficit.

Yes, the officiating wasn't the best. But the Seahawks made enough mistakes to blame themselves, not just the referees."


Great post-game remark: "The heck with going to Disney World, I want to go to Kennywood!" :D

Detroit looked beautiful. Loved Aretha's half of the National Anthem.

And last remark for now: Pittsburgh - with the H - is the only city in the country with the H. In the late 1800's, they tried to standardize all of the "burgs" to Burg, without the H. However, the town fathers (correctly) argued that, due to Pittsburgh's Scots-Irish heritage, not German heritage, the name is spelled WITH the H. It's just one more thing that makes Pittsburgh stand out from the other cities.

I think that was done as a nod to the Gulf Coast; Neville is from New Orleans, if I'm not mistaken.

It seemed like something was wrong with his mike through the first couple of words - during Stevie Wonder's number, one of the singers was having a mike problem as well.

Maybe. It seems in big arenas like there they're more likely to have mike problems. However, knowing his voice in general, to me it is just not well suited to the Star Spangled Banner. And he looked like he was struggling! He just doesn't have the powerful voice needed (like Aretha). Aretha is just getting bigger and bigger every time I see her, she's gotta be having some health problems.

Did anyone see the skit on Saturday Night Live this weekend? It was funny, but kinda mean towards Aretha and Aaron.

I did! I thought it was funny. The guy who played Aaron Neville in that skit really has him down!

That's true - Neville's voice is softer, and with all that crowd noise it may have just been lost in the stadium.

Aretha actually looked smaller than the last time I'd seen her on TV; my memory may be mistaken however. Either way, being that large at that age can't be good for your health.

superbowl 40 was the most boring game i have ever watched. i quit watching after 10 minutes into the game while flipping back every now and then to see the score. even the half-time show was boring to me. the crowd wasnt in it as much. maybe it was the location. usually they have things going on outside and stuff with fans.

Hey yinz guys!!!

This has been one of the craziest weekends I have ever experienced. It started Sat night at the bar where there were around 10 guys for every girl. That never, NEVER happens in Pittsburgh.

My little and I headed down to Sports Rock in the Strip (it's a huge sports bar w/ 80 TVs and 2 floors) at 11 yesterday morning...we were there till around 11 last night. Just one big happy Steeler Nation. We made friends with people from Canton, Cincinnati, central PA, New York, just everywhere who had come to be in Pittsburgh for the game. It was a beautiful thing. I've never felt so proud to be a part of this city.

Willie Parker should have been MVP but I'm not going to split hairs.

Thank you Charlie Watts for wearing the fugliest T-Shirt ever in Super Bowl history.

And yes, I realize Aaron Neville is from New Orleans and Katrina and all that, but man, he really needs to go away for a while.

Pitt is usually filled with more girls? Every bar is a sausage fest for KSig RC, but only because he visits gay bars usually.

-Rudey

This particular bar, yes. I'm sure if I went to a different type of bar there might be more males. Whether they would be males I'd want to hang out with is another story.

Oh, that poor man! Definitely not suited to do that song. I would almost have preferred Roseanne Barr's version.

Aretha, though, she was fantastic as always. And her jacket! loved, Loved, LOVED her jacket!!!

Has anyone ever read "The Couch Slouch" (Norman Chad)? I found his article in the Seattle paper, but an edited version is in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, too:

The Couch Slouch
by Norman Chad
5 February 2006

Belichick, Stones Weren't Rolling

"Super Bowl Sunday had a little of everything: Terrible Towels, MVPs on parade, The Whopperettes, an instant-replay reversal, Cheesy Bites, "We have a Code Black," repeated and annoying Radio Shack ads, "Satisfaction," a gadget-play touchdown, ABC's NFL swan song, The Bus' Last Ride, Fabio and, of course, a game for all ages.

Anyway, I took notes:

12:14 p.m. PT: Bill Belichick looked as comfortable on the pregame set as a turkey the night before Thanksgiving.

12:52: Note to August Busch IV (whom I affectionately called AB2squared): You can blah blah blah all you want about Budweiser Select, but I'm only pushing Rolling Rock up the hill.

1:07: I didn't know Jerome Bettis was from Detroit.

1:48: Those "Grey's Anatomy" promos almost scared me back to radio.

2:02: At my last MLS Cup party, we had a drinking game involving corner kicks.

2:23: I don't know why, but I thought Belichick might eventually do some shadow puppets.

3:21: Something tells me that future civilizations will look back at our Super Bowl ceremonial coin tosses with a degree of derision.


3:29: The phone rings moments after kickoff -- it's my second ex-wife, asking me what I'm doing. Man, she's got to let it go.

3:43: Sadly, I realize that the most complex and rewarding relationship I've ever had as an adult is with John Madden.

3:51: I used to have wavy locks like Troy Polamalu, but my co-workers at the cookie factory made me cut them.

3:59: It's all about interior line play, my friends, interior line play. And turnovers.

4:16: If Osama bin Laden were ever going to slip into America unnoticed, I'd bet it would be during the second quarter of the Super Bowl.

4:22: Mike Holmgren calls his own plays. I tried that during my first marriage -- it doesn't work.

4:26: One drawback to HDTV -- Bill Cowher's chin literally juts into your living room.

4:35: Ben Roethlisberger reminds me of a taller, slower whirling dervish!

5:06: The Rolling Stones were three-and-out. (A Don Mischer Production.)

5:18: Actually, I'm surprised the Stones didn't miss their flight, considering Keith Richards often sets off metal detectors in airports that he's not even in.

5:29: If I were married at the moment, that halftime lasted just long enough for a separation and a divorce.

5:32: One moment I'm in the kitchen getting Fritos, the next moment Willie Parker's in the secondary getting free.

5:40: The game is two hours old and I still can't believe the Colts aren't in it.

6:01: Madden: "What do you think they were looking at that they made him take his pants down?" (That is uncut and verbatim -- context not important.)

6:14: Is Al Michaels really going to ESPN next season? That would be like Sinatra playing a Ramada Inn.

6:22: TBS is running a "Yes, Dear" marathon, figuring that if you don't want to watch the Super Bowl, you really don't want to watch anything on TV.

6:28: Antwaan Randle El to Hines Ward!
I would've missed it if I hadn't set up a mini-fridge next to the beanbag chair.

6:33: Hey, I love Matt Hasselbeck, but if he keeps throwing picks and fumbling balls, he's going to be looking at careerbuilder.com sooner than later.

6:36: Scratch the fumble -- replay changed it.

6:36:30: If they used instant replay back in the '70s, I bet you Watergate plays out differently.

6:59: The Steelers made three plays all day; the Knicks do that and lose by 15.

7:01: Frankly, the Seahawks should've put their 12th man on the field. But the officials would've flagged them for it."

(Add three hours for the 'Burgh version!)

He sounds almost exactly like The Boston Sports Guy who writes for ESPN.com.

Yeah she was! I love me some Aretha! :)

Norman Chad couldn't lick Bill Simmons' taint - he's one of the luckiest humans on the planet, though, to get hooked up with ESPN's WSOP broadcasting . . .

The Seahawks lost but all is ok for me because I didn't mind the fact that the Steelers won.

-My love of my life (kddanni) is happy
-Bill Cohwer gets a SuperBowl (i use to date his daughter via Vonage telephone internate chat while having a sit sit with pink drinks with my myspace girlfriend I met through www.hotornot.com)
- Hines Ward is the most asian looking black guy I've ever seen in my life (he really is half asian, and I am actually really really really happy that he won MVP, because he is a great guy)


Kddanni. My heart. I must say, I work with a bunch of monkeys. Do you work with a bunch of jackasses?

Musical comments.

Aaron Neville doesn't have the voice to sing the National Anthem. Aretha was outstanding as usual.

The Stones were pretty average.

Finally, why The Stones in the first place. Didn't it occur to anyone that this game was in
Motown?

That's been a major complaint here since they announced it would be the Stones. That's why they had the Motown thing during pregame, I think. But, yes, we should've had more Motown (Martha Reeves was just elected to City Council!)

This is absolutely ridiculous - 10 out of 10

I should have said "exactly like Boston Sports Guy, without the talent."

Post of the day.

-Rudey

I say, I would have rather Missed Janas Boob than Watch this miscombolatin of Mick J doing His ????

This Whole thing was not interesting. Couldnt wait till I could find something of Inerest to watch!:(

I think seeing Janet's boob for a millisecond was MUCH less offensive than seeing Mick's skinny ass jumping around the stage, and that shirt that kept riding up.

Good thing he had on a belt, or those pants would've fallen right off. *shudders*

OMG, We do agree!

Thought He should not be on Stage!!!!!!

What a sad 1/2 Time along with The REFS!

After Climax Stoopid Bowl one again!

God Ads at that Price. Delete, Delete and Delete!

All it does is screw up decent TC!:confused:

Reported on Radio that the game was fixed so Da Bus Would go out a Weenier or Was It His Mom?:)

Dont Be Messin With My Momma!:D

Swish!

If the rules were the rules, Hasselbeck wouldn't have gotten a penalty for doing something that is LEGAL and D Jack wouldn't have gotten called for holding. Ben's TD (or not) was only one of many calls that the refs screwed up.

Actually from what I've heard today, the one on Locklear couldn't even be found on the replay (and that was an East Coast guy telling it).

Since we're going after spelling, it's HASSELBECK (with an e)

Interesting article from someone NOT in Seattle......

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playof...ael&id=2320683


And who had more incomplete passes?????

M. Hasselbeck 26/49 53% 1TD 1INT

B. Roethlisberger 9/21 43% 0TD 2INT

I think someone needs to check the stats............

If "we" are splitting hairs, I was going after geography. Not spelling. Nonetheless, my apologies to both Matt and Elizabeth :)

And you, sugarpie, need to chill or you're going to have some sort of breakdown :)

Are you referring to me? I didn't check the stats before I posted, I just noticed that quite often Matt's passes ended up, um, on the ground.

Maybe that happened to Ben as well, but, last I heard his team won so it's irrelevant.

Steelers won - Seahawks lost. End of story.

Honestly, if I were a Seahawk fan, I'd be mad at:

1) Stevens for dropping three passes, and
2) Hasselback/Holmgren for blowing the two minute drill not once, but twice.

Say what you want about the penalties, but those two factors cost Seattle the game and a Super Bowl title, because Pittsburgh was not exactly tearing things up.

Right.

Here's the real reason.

Pittsburgh had more points -- a minimum of two scores more -- at the end of the game.

I'm not a huge student of the game, but as I understand it, under the rules, that makes them the winner.

Nothing else really matters at this point.

Baldy had more incomplete passes.

Do the math. 23 vs 12

Zing! Plus, neither quarterback's numbers were anything to write home about.

DJack's penalty was NOT a bad call - first of all, had the DB pushed off like that, it would be a GUARANTEED pass interference call . . . plus, he actually moved the DB off his spot. That defines pass interference. The worst part? He didn't NEED to push off, he had position and would have scored. The WRs for Seattle played like boneheads - how many times were they out of bounds on TDs? How many first downs did that soft TE of yours drop?

Say what you want about the rushing TD by Roethlisberger, but there wasn't conclusive evidence to overturn it no matter what you think. You simply couldn't see the ball as his knees hit.

Hasselbeck's penalty is the definition of nit-picking - take it easy, it's only 2 months until the Mariners begin their 110-loss season.

My late father always said, "Never get involved in a competition you can't afford to lose." It's a fancy way of saying that, should you lose and complain about it, you might up looking like a whiner, and whiners are the true losers.

This was NOT the prettiest of Super Bowls. To me, it looked like the Seahawks thought that their record made them better than the Steelers, and came out thinking that beating a Wild Card team would be easy. But the Steelers had a momentum that, even though they were a Wild Card team, couldn't be stopped.

The Steelers didn't play their best.
The Seahawks didn't play their best.
The Officiating wasn't the best.
The Officiating didn't cause two missed Field Goals.
Any further discussion is moot, at best.

HoneyChile, do you live in America? If not, I can see why your views are off. the past 2 weeks everyone was on the Steelers bandwagon, saying how the steelers were gonna win. The steelers were even favored to win, even though the Seahawks had the better record. The Seahawks were NOT the ones talking shit before the superbowl. It was the Steelers and their loudmouth punk Tigger from WinneythePooh looking, I got shot in the ass linebacker Joey Porter. The Steelers were the ones who thought they would come in and punk the Seahawks around. NOT the seahawks. The seahawks kept shut, came out firing and got hosed on a few calls. Hence they were only up 3-0 in the first quarter.


So please don't pull a Joey Porter and make up a scenario trying to make you P-burgers (notice how I called you guys burgers?) look like an underdog.

Exactly.

Seattle lost because Holmgreen is a freakin dumbass and didn't manage the game like he should have. He simply got outcoached by Cohwer.

Stevens played like a chump and Baldy didn't exactly throw some terrific passes either.

In the end, the Seahawks made mistakes. The Steelers didn't. the Seahawks have a stupid ass fat coach (too bad he's a Trojan), and the Steelers have a great coach.

Stupid Holmgreen.

It seemed like both sides were heavily playing the underdog role going into this; funny when A) People readily noted that the Seahawks were the best team in the NFC and B) Jerome Bettis has been THE media darling since the playoffs began.

Being the "underdog" may have become the most overused cliche in sports these days.

Bobby, I'm certainly aware that the Steelers were favored. I just think that the Seahawks didn't buy into it. If I were a Seahawk, I doubt that I would have believed that a Wild Card team could have beat the Seahawks, with their record.