Some Super Bowl Thoughts

I”m just home from being with some friends and watching one of the better Super Bowls ever played. Those of you who missed the game (shame on you!) missed two teams playing very tough, fundamental football, with a minimum of showboating. Hats off to both teams for an excellent game.

Though, I have to say I’m completely mystified by the Eagles late-game lackadaisical play. I can’t think of any rational explanation why, if you’re ten points down with five or six minutes left in the game, you can’t manage to run a two-minute offense. Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb pretty much blew the game with their lack of urgency in the final five minutes.

Deion Branch was a good MVP choice, though the trophy could have just as easily gone to Ted Bruschi, Rodney Harrison, or Tom Brady. Each of them had a good enough game to deserve it. Had the Eagles won, the MVP would have ben Terrell Owens and he would have more than deserved it. I’ve not liked Owens in the past, but this season with the Eagles have shown me a different player than I remember when he was with San Fransisco. That he was able to come back, play the whole game tonight, and be as productive as he was is a big deal and I’m very glad that he proved all his critics wrong tonight.

Now for the good stuff!

I was really surprised by how good a show Fox put on. The pre-game music (Black Eyed Peas and Earth, Wind, and Fire was an interesting combination that souned great together. Alicia Keys was, as usual, scintillating, though it wold have ben more effective had we been able to see the bazillion people behind her signing the words in time to the music more than in passing glimpses), the tribute to the troops, and the National Anthem were all stirring, entertaining, and professional.

The best comercial, to me, was the Anheiser-Busch tribute to the troops. It had just the right impact without seeming to schmaltzy. Thanks to A-B for doing that. Beyond that, the commercials were…meh. I can’t say that I remember any of them, even a couple hours after the end of the game.

It was funny to see the league officials practically rip the microphone out of the Patriots owner’s hand. I don’t know what in the heck he was trying to say, but everything after his thanking the organization was babble.

The Fox shows afterwards were a mixed bag. “The Simpsons” was actually pretty funny, though the ending was a real clunker. It seemed like they couldn’t figure out a way to end the show and just let it fall dead to the floor. Still, I’m glad to see they can still do a funny show.

Unlike the show that followed. I’m a big fan of Seth McFarland’s “The Family Guy”. Every episode makes me laugh at least out loud at least a half dozen times. His new show “American Dad” just plain stinks. There wasn’t so much as a smile in thirty minutes of television. I think you could rank this program somewhere around the watchability of “Beverly Hill Buntz”, except that I laughed a couple times during that show. Somebody needs to remind McFarland that edgy is all well and good, but the reason “The Family Guy” works is because it’s edgy and funny. Edgy without actual humor just makes for a wasted 30 minutes of television. Stick this one in the long list of post-Super Bowl losers.

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