Okay, so we survived another barrage of Super Bowl insanity.

Whaddya think about the game? It definitely was a sloppy turnover filled mess with the rain and the footing causing numerous interceptions and fumbles. Congratulations to the Colts. They just ran it down the throats of the Bears and it made the difference.

Tony Dungy proves nice guys can finish first. His classy coaching style gets Black History Month off to a good start.

But the game itself only gets a "C" and the commercials....was it just me or did they really show a lack of imagination and creativity this year?

Question for debate:

What did you think of Super Bowl XLI?

The game was awful in my mind. I mean the rain created a lot of turnovers but there were a lot of other problems as well. Most of all though, Rex Grossman. I'd be surprised if he is the starting quarterback for the Bears next season. He did lead them to the superbowl, but in this conference, with that defense, its not that big of an accomplishment. The commercials were equally if not more bad. Talk about CBS plugging their own shows. Like i need to see another CSI commercial for as long as I live. Overall, the better team won and Peyton got the championship he deserved. But a game that was just ugly from the get go really didnt do it for me. Peyton has his championship ring, and now its time for Eli to step up. Giants '07!!!!!!!!!!

I enjoyed the game, although a bit sloppy(rain can do some funny things to a football). I was glad to see Dungy get a Superbowl win. After seeing him build a great team in Tampa then get booted to only have a team he built win the Superbowl the very next year, this is his vindication. Dungy is a complete class act and a very humble man whether in winning or losing. I was also glad to see Manning get the win as well. Now his critics will have to shut their mouth because they can no longer say... well he has all those great stats and records but he still hasn't won a... oh wait...

Terrible game...Terrible. Looked promising one quarter in, then Rex Grossman started playing football like...Rex Grossman. Congrats to Tony Dungy and the Colts, as much as I didn't want Peyton Manning to win.
If that's what his critics are saying then they are misspeaking. The criticism is that he doesn't play well against good teams. He generally doesn't. That said, he's a Hall of Famer, I'd vote him in myself. That said, he's an overrated Hall of Famer.

CP

Well at least it was a football game and not a total blow out.

The commercials were abysmal. I did like Paper, Rock, Scissors though.

I enjoyed the game. I thought it was a good and interesting matchup. I was very disappointed in the play of the Bears defense.

I think the Bears need to find a way to move past Grossman and I believe Coach Smith and his O-coordinator called a very poor game leaving so many chances to Grossman to lose the game.

I thought it was the Bears game to win or lose going into the fourth.

I tihnk there are two kinds of quarterbacks who can win a Super Bowl. One who is good enough to win a game and one who is smart enough not to lose it. I don't G Rex as ever being either of those.

Rex was HORRIBLE, but let's not make him a scape goat. The coaching was horrible and the defense was just as horrible.

The colts were regularly running 10 yard first downs... on first downs.... The defense could not stop 3rd down conversions if their life depended on it. The offensive line was letting anybody who wanted a shot at Grossman get it.... The coaching staff continued to play conservative with one of the best Quarterbacks in the league... where the hell was the pressure???

Grossman... Grossman played real bad, but not his line, nor the coaches, nor the defense, nor the special teams... really helped him.

IF he takes the sack they hate him... if he throws it away they hate him... theyn they wonder why he forces the pass... Protection was REx's biggest problem... then trying to play against the clock.

I give the First quarter a WOWEEE!!!! The rest of the game was probably good if you were a Colts fan...


At least I won 10 dollars...

What did you think of Super Bowl XLI?

Weather: A+ Sloppy! (needed more mud for an A++).
Game entertainment value: A+ Loved it!
Colts technical merit: B- Sloppy!
Bears technical merit: C- Sloppy!
Advertising entertainment value: F Worst in recent memory.
Halftime show: F This is what it smells like... when pigs fly.
Overal enjoyment: A- Colts Win!!

One of the few recent SBs where the game was far better than the commercials. The Pats' win in 2002 might have been better, but I'm not a big Pats fan. Considering my favorite AFC team won... loved it! Glad I didn't pay thousands of bucks to sit in the rain, though. Or to watch blurry raindrops and smudges on a brand new HDTV, either.

Bears had a great year getting into the SB, played only somewhat sloppier in sloppy weather than the Colts; nothing to be ashamed of. Rex Grossman seemed to be channelling Tony Romo until Q4, but didn't end the game fumbling on the goal line or scoring 3 TDs in 3 minutes, so the effect wasn't quite as Romo-antic

We cheered, yelled, ate some of the rankest junk food ever, cranked up da jamz while heckling commercials, bellered satirical karaoke over the formerly known artist, and generally had a raucus uberblast of testosterone. The cops barged in at one point, but they had invitations and got rowdier than the rest of us. If we didn't have to go to work tomorrow or pay sitters, we'd still be partying. Superbowl Monday should be a national holiday.

It'll take years to clean this place up, but we do it all again next Saturday for the PRO BOWL!! So, I'd better get started. Cheers.

The game played out exactly the way I figured it would. The Colts focused on stopping the run because they knew Grossman can't win it for them. The biggest story was the Bears defense and their inability to stop the Colts offense. The Colts matched up very well against the Bears and that's why the Colts won, if the Patriots would have beat the Colts then the Bears would have won.

I thought Prince was an interesting selection for the halftime show given the stigma from the Janet Jackson-Justin Timberlake incident.

I voted "typically tedious, etc."

For me, the Super Bowl is probably the worst football game of the season. Usually high-scoring, sloppy, with more turnovers than pop n fresh. This year's was no better, no worse. I really thought it was going to be a flopper when Chicago scored on the kickoff. Funny how things change. I didn't have a dog in this fight, but I was rooting for Indy.

As for the commercials - blech. Mostly lame, lame, lame. A lot of quasi-gayness, too (that Snickers ad - oh, yuck). Very odd. I missed KFed's Taco Bell debut - I heard that was pretty good. I thought the gorilla flirting with the girl was amusing, as was the rock-paper Bud Light ad. Overall, tho....

Prince was probably the highlight of the whole enchilada. The odd little man is an amazing guitarist.

His special teams opened the game with a touchdown and his D held Indianapolis' offense to 22 points. Neither the D or ST had a GREAT game, but a decent QB could have won with their performance. If the Bears had a decent quarterback, they win the game, that was really my only point.

On Edit: Prince was attrocious at halftime. Whoever told him to play All Along the Watchtower and/or the Foo Fighters should be beaten publically.

CP

Indianapolis running game. . ..
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The Colts running game

Isn't that like the sign of the breaking of the 3rd seal?

Y'know end of Times,,,, Dogs and Cats living together, the return of Gozor and

The Bears unable to STOP

Duh Duh DuuuuuuHHHHHH!

The Colts RUNNING game.

I had to fight the urge the Crank Call Chicagoans last night

I mean REALLY

Colts RUNNING GAme.


Any Given Sunday

The game was still in question going into the fourth quarter so it was better than most. It seems Grossman either has a really good day or a really bad day with no middle ground and I’m not sure the Bears play calling didn’t attribute to his misery.

Good to see Manning/Harrison/Saturday/Dungy get their rings, but I was pulling more for Joseph Addai after seeing the story about his High School friend who had been paralyzed (a male Steel Magnolia moment).

Some good commercials:
“I’ve never had a Coke before”
Two guys eating the same Snickers bar
Budweiser/Dalmatian
Taco Bell – lions chatting about the “carne asada” Taquito

For the half time show at the party I attended many called their kids into the room to watch Prince. When the sheet went up showing his silhouette he turned where the extra ‘horn” on his guitar looked like a tail, one of the parents said “what happens when he turns it around” and not a second later he turned it around and then it was time for the kids to leave the room. Too funny.

Oh, I just remembered something!! Did anyone notice the crowd booing Mashid Muhammed, both during the coin toss when his name was announced and after a play in the 2nd (not sure) quarter? Is it something this guy did, or were people booing the obvious Muslim name? I haven't read anything in the news about it today.

Daffy: They weren't booing, they were "Moooooos"-ing, Moose is Mushin's nickname in Chi-town.

CP

CP, thanks for the clarification. I didn't know about the nickname. Whew!

It's time for the advertisers to put their wallets back in their pockets. This is the first year that the Super Bowl ads were so dismal they weren't even memorable. It's one thing to be bad and another to be boring and the crop (or crap) or ads were both.

Even the "Grand Theft Auto" Coca-Cola ad wasn't all that. I saw it a few weeks ago during the pre-movie commercials for Casino Royale.

Actually, the hands-down worst ad on television has been airing during the last few weeks before The Super Bowl.

Have you seen that Best Buy ads where several "employees" and customers say, "I pledge...?" What creeps me out is the wife who stares dead-eyed into the camera and mumbles in a monotone, "I pledge to watch football on Saturday and Sunday..." while her husband sits next to her watching her carefully as she recites her lines as if he's prepped her. She drones on "...and Monday.." and finishes "...and sometimes Thursday," as hubby looks directly into the camera with a triumphant and approving smile as if satisfied that wifey got her lines right.

It's such a paternalistic, sexist and submissive commercial that I can't think of anything as heavy-handed to compare with it.

Ugh. It's a day of mourning here in Chicago. We should have known it was a bad omen when the helmets for the Art Institute lions didn't fit...

After the kickoff, euphoric chaos. After the umpteenth turnover, gloom and doom. A

And this game wasn't Rex Grossman's fault. When Indy is running 11 yards every first down, and the Bears only ran, what, 15 times all game? That's bad game management.

I was happy for Tony Dungy though; hopefully, he, Lovie Smith and Marvin Lewis will all get one eventually. Until then, he better be buying dinner.

I thought that Prince absolutely rocked. It's so great to see him with a guitar in his hands (at least it looked like a guitar at times ) and jamming. C'mon CP, you gotta love the Foo Fighters! Did anyone catch the press conference? He goes into Rock Lobster at the end. I am totally going to see the Vegas show now. The purple one rules.

Didn't catch some of the commercials, but I thought Shula / Jay Z playing hologram football was cool.

I was torn. I mean, really REALLY torn.

I was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. I grew up watching (as much as I hate to date myself) Johnny Unitas throwing passes to Raymond Berry, handing the ball off to Tom Matte, and watching Tom Matte read the plays off his arm when he had to sub for a hurt Johnny Unitas (which by the way, the wrist band is in Canton). My grandad worked with Ordell Braase and even knew my name.

Then the bastards moved out in the middle of the night to Indianapolis. I was crushed as was any Colts fan. So, when I moved to Ohio, I naturally migrated to the most horrible team in all of professional sports, the Bengals.

So, my utter contempt and hatred for the Colts remained intact all these years - until Peyton Manning. I'm finding it impossible to hate the Colts now because this guy is the real deal. He has the tools and poise to be one of the greatest ever. And he's just starting.

I find myself watching Colts games as much as the Bengals and have been rooting for them. I feel so dirty.

Anyhow, I thought the game was pretty good. It could have went either way most of the game, but everybody had an idea Manning was ready for prime-time and Grossman wasn't. Grossman has a pretty good arm and I don't think he's that bad, but he can't work with the amount of time the line gives him. Most QB's could do a,lot with that time. For some reason, Grossman can't. But as noted, you can't blame Grossman because the Bears offense really isn't built around the passing game. And above all else, Grossman and the Bears spanked the entire league all year. You can't deny their success.

Lastly, Prince did great. That guy did a "Prince" show while it was raining like hell. Only a true professional could pull off a show like that under the worse conditions while trumping Janet's wardrobe malfunction with a huge phallic silhouette for the entire word to see. The guy is truly a genius.

Commercials were lame, but the beard combover guy made me LOL.

Edited to add:
I voted null. No choices were close to "It was ok" or indifference.