Super Bowl XL

[ramirami]

What a terrible superbowl...

The game was pathetic...
The officiating $ucked...Seattle could not catch a break...
The half time show was no good....
The commercials were not clever either...

Amongst the worst super bowls in recent memory...

[Dave23]

For the most part I would have to agree. It had a few moments, but very few. I started doing laundry during halftime - how bad is that!

-dave

[Bill Balmer]

In general I'd agree, although I didn't think the game sucked that bad. There was a lot of good defense, and a few major bad calls stained an otherwise well-officiated game - but that's all it takes, isn't it? Seattle's touchdown catch that was reversed on a bad offensive interference call was enough in itself.

But for me, as a musician, the "entertainment" aspects of the day were horrendous. I'll admit that I didn't even watch the halftime show, as the Stones are not going to surprise me by being anything other than what they are, and I can't stand them. I'm sure others will disagree.

But the national anthem was pathetic. They announced it, and I said, "Oh no - not Aaron Neville", and my kids went, "Why?" Then he started "singing" and both of my boys looked at me in shock - "He's HORRIBLE!" Then I had hope that Aretha would come in and tear it up, but even she sang like a tentative school child who had never heard the song before.

Bring back Sir Paul!

[Mainer]

I though Aaron's microphone was turned off he was so soft. Aretha was great - she should have done the whole anthem. Poor Dr. John seemed like an after thought.

The commercials were like other years, some very good, some OK and most forgettable. I did chuckle at the streaker. My wife thought the Clydesdale pony was touching.

The game could have been worse. Bad officiating and bad time management withstanding, it held my interest.

bottom line?

The Patriots could've beat either team

[ramirami]

Originally posted by Bill Balmer


Bring back Sir Paul!

or better still a non-british, less than 50 year old singer would do too...

[drm1111]

LETS GO STEELERS!!!! READ IT AND WEEP ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO DOUBTED THE BLACK AND GOLD!!

[ramirami]

Originally posted by drm1111
LETS GO STEELERS!!!! READ IT AND WEEP ALL YOU PEOPLE WHO DOUBTED THE BLACK AND GOLD!!

[krygny]

Originally posted by ramirami
What a terrible superbowl...

Yup. And, like everybody else, I watched pretty much the whole thing and I'll do it again next year no matter who's playing.

[whizmo]

Originally posted by krygny

Yup. And, like everybody else, I watched pretty much the whole thing and I'll do it again next year no matter who's playing.

Not me.

Advertisers take note - there are a lot of us who are walking out and doing other things and/or Tivo'ing the game.

I'll spend three hours (and watch ads) for a good football game, but won't spend five hours to watch some excruciatingly-slow entertainment spectacle with poor football play, censored bands, terribly officiating and advertisements that have become more important than the game. Shorten the lead time to a single week, get rid of instant replay, and return to a 15-minute halftime of marching bands and I might be a lot more interested in the next superbowl.

It's supposed to be a football game. They need to keep their eye on the ball or this thing will become like WWF.

- Mark

[Mainer]

anybody else find the "Puppy Bowl" on Animal Planet with the all-kitten half time show? Now that's entertainment!

[iglesias]

Originally posted by whizmo

It's supposed to be a football game. They need to keep their eye on the ball or this thing will become like WWF.

Become?!? I think it's pretty much already there!

[ramirami]

Originally posted by iglesias

Become?!? I think it's pretty much already there!

with NFL getting $8 Billion over the next 6 years in TV contracts...something they are doing is right...

[drm1111]

Yea that 8 Billion should help to cut ticket costs but you know it will increase the salaries of the players. I blame the owners for the high sala ries though. If someone would give me 10 million over 3 years i'm sure not going to say "Well thats to much. Lets cut it down to 3 million"

[whizmo]

There's plenty of blame to spread around for the situation we have now: owners willing to overpay to produce a winner (betting on continued appreciation of franchises that, like any pyramid scheme, can't continue forever), greedy players and agents, and politicians willing to subsidize a private enterprise with taxpayer money using some bogus "economic development" argument.

The only way it will change is to vote with one's feet: stop going and stop watching. I wonder how many people would continue to spend $200 for a pair of pro-football game tickets in the end zone if they occasionally bought a $5 50-yard-line seat at a good high-school football game.

And compare this year's Superbowl to this year's Rose Bowl NCAA championship. College football is big business too, but the college championship game was dramatically better played and more entertaining.

- Mark

[ramirami]

Originally posted by drm1111
Yea that 8 Billion should help to cut ticket costs but you know it will increase the salaries of the players. I blame the owners for the high sala ries though. If someone would give me 10 million over 3 years i'm sure not going to say "Well thats to much. Lets cut it down to 3 million"

what high salaries NFL has pretty low salaries compared to other pro sports... the salary cap as around 88 million I think (and remember that each team has 53 players)...

NFL runs a great business (unlike MLB)... how many other sports can have the kind of success small market teams have in NFL (Green Bay, Kansas City, San Diago, Buffalo, etc etc)