And that is why we watch the games, ladies and gentlemen. Heart-wrenching, nailbiting, cigarette smoking, stomach twisting, sphincter puckering NFL action!!
And in the end, Big Ben, like he always does, drives the Stillers 78 yards in under 3:00 and passes over 3 Arizona defenders to hit Santonio Holmes in both hands with both toes down to finally let us catch our breath. I am proud of our football team!
This game was the best Super Bowl of all-time. The Cardinals played one hell of a game and just got beat by a team that made one more play. It's always about "one more play" until there's nothing left on the clock. For these Stillers one more play can be made by almost anyone. Silverback Harrison on a 100 yard interception return, DeShea Townsend making picks,LaMarr Woodley on a sack, Troy Polamalu, Jeff Reed, Hines Ward, Santonio Holmes, and Big Ben always. But anyone can step up.
Game notes:
- Good thing it took Arizona three quarters before they figured out a way to get Larry Fitzgerald the ball.
- Darnell Stapleton got absolutely tooled by Darnell Dockett in the second half. Good thing it took Arizona a whole half to discover that mismatch.
- I loved it when we had the nickel and dime packages with Keisel and Smith as our only down linemen. I felt secure when I saw that lineup. But we did leave the middle of the field open for far too long in that alignment. Eventually it burned us.
- Nice to see the offense come to the rescue of our defense for once. After leaning on that D all season. When it counted most, the O came through.
- Not many games contain two of the most exciting plays in franchise history. But Santonio's TD is right up there with Lynn Swann and John Stallworth's great moments and just below the Franco's Immaculate Reception and the Big Ben's Immaculate Tackle. And what can compare to Silverbacks interception return? 100 yards and a TD and a 14 point swing with no time on the clock at the half!
- Warner's wife looks better than she did with that spike-butch hairdo she used to wear. But she's a pretentious bitch. Can you believe they showed the bitch no less than 6 times yesterday? The only one who rivaled her was Larry Fitzgerald Sr.!
- Get used to Bruce Arians. He's not going anywhere. He did a nice job yesterday, all-in-all. I guess we need to hope he yields even more play calling to Big Ben.
- Kurt Warner certainly showed America how to be a gracious loser. I've never seen such composure and class after having been beaten in such dramatic fashion.
- Was I the only one looking for a drunken Suzy Kolber to caress Joe Namath's groin during the award ceremony?
- Yesterday was the kind of day and game that makes listening to games on the radio when you're on a roadtrip, plan your Sunday's for 17 weeks around the NFL TV schedule, and all the other things we do in our devotion to our team worthwhile.
To explain my photo, this is a cheap-ass plastic Steelers mug I got from my parents for Christmas in 1974. It has been used only 7 times. Yes, those 7 times represent the 7 Super Bowl appearances by the Steelers dating back to Super Bowl IX. Back in '74 I made a vow to myself that I would only drink from that mug when the Steelers were in the Super Bowl. It's life approximates the existence of the Terrible Towel. It is now 6-1. My Terrible Towel was left in the closet because I only use it when I am actually at a game. But yesterday the Magic Mug did the trick.... again!
Enjoy the win.
9 comments:
Did you pump some 'arn from the mug?
I am still in a tizzy over that game. I compare it to being preganant.......I think I am going to throw up.......No, wait a minute I am ok now. Oh, gosh this hurts and I am never going to do it again. Let's do it again!!!!
Benny - I am so proud of Benny!
And he was funny too when he made the comment about the offensive line.
The best was when they asked Tomlin what he was thinking when Fitzgerald was going to score.
He was thinking that if they score he hopes they do it fast.
OK, I would have been thinking "Oh shit, Oh shit, Oh SHIT!"
But not our coach - the brilliant man that he is.
Springsteen did suck.
And he didn't sing Born in the USA.
WTF?
I agree with what you said about the Cards. I was very impressed with them. They got class and that is saying a lot in this league.
Ok, Dog, I hope you are going to watch American Idol tomorrow so we have some stuff to chat about!
No 'arn and no 'arn City Light neither. But I did go Western PA with some Stoney's. My first beer of the day at around 4:30 (to soothe my nerves)was a La Trappe Blond from Belgium. It was what was in the mug in the photo and it was great. After that, all Stoneys.
I got nothing good to say about the American Dildo show. I did think that Jennifer Hudson did a remarkable job with the National Anthem yesterday. And she got kicked off in favor of what mutations of Frankenstein?
Springsteen did indeed suck, no question about that from me. Never did like him and I still don't.
Cards have some class... unlike the whiney bitches in the media who are spewing the hate today. But it smells like envy to me.
Awesome game!!! Some quick thoughts...we shoulda put AZ away earlier in the second half but kept letting them hang around when we settled for FG's...where was both team's running games yesterday? I was shocked how poorly both sides ran the ball...Fitz is a freak of nature. Period. No one or no defensive scheme is gonna shut him down for an entire game...Didn't you just know Ben was gonna drive us down the field and score on that last drive? I did...Kurt Warner is the classiest man on the planet...I loved me some Silverback even when he got penalized...Marshall Faulk is a total ass. How obvious can he get that he was biased for his old QB and the Cards? Grow up Faulk and you suck...Yahoo pissed me off buy putting Hine's pic on the homepage and calling him a "failure" along with Edgerin James. WTF!... As Mike T. said, the Stillers play 60 minutes baby! Not 59 1/2!...The media sucks. They and the loser Arizona fans are really digging deep for imaginary excuses why the Cards lost. Get over it! The problem now is we have beaten everyone in the NFL so we're running out of "allies". LOL They all want what we have. If I was Cleveland, Arizona, Seattle, Dallas, the Bengals or any other team I'd hate us too! I left when Springsteen came on. ZZZzzzzzzz.
P.S. That new judge on American Idol is kinda hot!!
Were you of legal drinking age in 1974?
dude, put that mug in your will right now. that thing needs to be passed down with strict instructions on it.
I was 20 in 1974... and had a fake ID. Well, it wasn't acutally a fake ID it was a real Pennsylvania state drivers license... but I wasn't then, nor have I ever been, Leo F. Hinterlang.
I watched that first Super Bowl game at home and helped myself to whatever my father had in the fridge at the time. As I recall it was a beer called Sterling which he brought back from a trip to Virginia that fall.
I got out 3 glasses from McDonalds that my dad had way back when.
I know Lambert was on one of them.
The kids were strictly forbidden to drink from them.
Any thoughts on the parade?
I watched most of it.
Only things that annoyed me were
1. the politicians in the parade....nobody wants to see them.
Especially Lukey
2. Who was wearing red? Tard!
3. What was up with Benny's hat?
My husband came home and bought me a Ben jersey. Is that sick or what? But it is a cool jersey.
The hat Ben had on is known as a "Mad Bomber" hat. Appropriate, eh?
It has been speculated that it is actually a hunting hat once belonging to Bret Kiesel.
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