Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Superbowl XL Highlights & Lowlights

After soaking up all the hype and the pageantry that was Superbowl XL, I thought to myself - every year we wish for a great game, but instead, we get a 4-hour spectacle of mediocrity, bad halftime shows, below average football games, bad officiating, expensive commercials, and melodramatic subplots – the game within the game. The Superbowl has been reduced to a bad episode of Survivor. However, here are some highlights and lowlights from SBXL:

Highlight: Aretha Franklin singing the Nation Anthem
Lowlight: Aaron Neville being reduced to a prop while singing the National Anthem

Highlight: Seahawks winning the opening coin toss
Lowlight: Seahawks only winning the coin toss

Highlight: Roethlisberger scoring a Touchdown
Lowlight: Officials helping Roethlisberger get the Touchdown

Highlight: Close game after the first half
Lowlight: First half was just postponing the inevitable for the Seahawks

Highlight: Senior citizens performing at half time
Lowlight: Sadly, senior citizens were the Rolling Stones

Highlight: Good officiating
Lowlight: Good officiating absent from the Superbowl

Highlight: The FedEx “Caveman” commercial
Lowlight: Pepsi commercials – when commercials go bad

Highlight: Steelers dominating the second half
Lowlight: Seahawks still being penalized as we speak

Highlight: Jerome Bettis ending his career with a championship
Lowlight: Retired football players have no where to go but in Dancing with the Stars

Highlight: Hines Ward winning the game MVP
Lowlight: His first name is Hines

Highlight: Superbowl XL is over!
Lowlight: Niners still suck!

3 Comments:

Blogger Tim said...

Haha, awesome list.

I actually thought it was an entertaining Superbowl: interceptions with long runbacks and even a trick-play.

The niners have sucked for a long time now...shouldn't the natural cycle of things led to them to a winning season by now?

12:25 PM  
Blogger Dave1974 said...

Natural cycles only work for some teams. Just ask the Warriors. They've been sucking for over ten years now.

12:39 PM  
Blogger MalaBOOYAH said...

I don't know...having living corpses play classic rock songs looked really cool. McCartney last year, Rolling Stones this year...I wonder who they'll get for next year. It's high times for the old folks, I tell ya.

2:43 PM  

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