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?