Superbowl Sunday

[Slipknot]

How about those back to back to back return touchdowns? The game is almost better than the commercials or the halftime. I really don't care who wins.

[JohnR]

As much as I didn't appreciate Shannon Sharpe, Art Modell or Ray Lewis, I'm sorta glad that Baltimore won, having lived there for a while. I'm also glad that Sam Gash and Ben Coates finally get Superbowl rings.

That was probably the most exciting time of the game with the two returns for TDs... But had Baltimore NOT scored that last touchdown, I would have had $200 in squares :'(

[eelman]

The best part of the game was the food!
If you like football played between the 10 and 30 yardline this was the game for you!! It was a total defensive game.Last years superbowl was 100times better,right down to the last play.

Kerry collins looked like he wanted to be somewhere else.I have to give baltimore's defense there do!! They are fantastic.I still think that kerry helped them out with his stupid decision making.

I cant wait for saturday nights debut of the XFL..No holds barred footbal,should be interesting.

As for survivoir,I was dissapointed.The show lacks the great charecters that made the first one so good.We need rudy back!!

[Got Stripers]

I'm with the #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&, last years game ruled and the finish was too good for words. I appreciate defense, but sometimes those "D" games are a snooze to watch. I'm happy for Ben Coates and Sam thou, those two guys really deserve a ring. Now if pour old Drew could go play somewhere else, lol.

Tight lines.

[JohnR]

You really want to see Drew play somewhere else? There are several reasons the Pats got worse, not only because Parcells jumped sides. To see the personel around Bledsoe come apart, especially Curtis Martin going to the Jets, had just as much to do with the downslide. Hopefully, get a few more people around him and they can be back in 2 years...

Here is for wishfull thinking, eh??

[Mike P]

Too bad Hannah never had a chance to play elsewhere and get a ring--(he didn't, right? Never sure on these things). Seems like there's no shortage of long-time ex-Pats who finally get a ring with someone else. Like All-World Russ with the 49-ers and Matt Cavanaugh with the 86 Jints.

I'm old enough so that the Patsies were the "other" team in New England, the Giants of Sam Huff and Y.A. Tittle were the real team when I was a kid. Every kid playing a street touch game was Tittle, not Babe Parilli. So, even tho I held Pats season tickets for a lot of years in the 70s and early 80s, the Giants were always first in my heart. But, knowing they were clearly the inferior team yesterday made it easier to bear. They got a freebie as the second best team in 91 with "wide-right", so the gods of fate owed them one bad break.

Yesterday's game reminded me more of the Giants/Bears playoff game in 85, the years the Bears Super-Bowl-Shuffled all over the Pats. I'll still take that Bears defense over the Ravens.

[JohnR]

Sorry bout your Giants, Mike. Maybe next year }>

Right about "Hog", never did a ring but has been lauded as certainly one of the best ever. My old boss has a signed SI cover of HH (maybe jixed too), wouldn't mind that magazine issue to collect...

I was living in Stuttgart Germany when the Pats played the Bears and we watched over a friends SB party. The game started at midnight and there were 2 NE fans and 38 Chicago fans of which 3 may have actually been life-long fans. We got alot of harrasment that night and only two of us cheered when they put Grogan too late :'(

[Mike P]

Hey, when I looked at this team even in October, the playoffs were all I wanted--anything else was pure gravy. In 86, they were a powerhouse and it was expected. In 91, beating the mighty Bills (who knew at the time they were starting a streak of blow-out losses?) and the vaunted "hurry-up" of Kelly, Reed, Thermal etc and the Bruce Smith/Cornelius Bennet led "D" was an unexpected surprise. Next year or not, this was a heck of a run. No dominant RB, like Joe Morris in 86, or OJ Anderson in 91, was a negative. (Heck, I think I can hit a hole faster than Dayne :-) ) Biggest difference was the "smashmouth" offensive lines they had back then and the marginal one they had this year.

Sehorn is a strong safety who is out of his natural position at CB, too--and yesterday, it showed.

[Fisherwoman]

There will never be a better defense than the Pittsburg Steelers, back in the late 70's and early 80's. Jack Lambert, Mean Joe Green, Jack Ham, Mike Webster, there is only one thing I have to say about all these other teems.
FORGETTABOUTIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mike P]

Front 7 against front 7, Steelers vs 85-86 Bears. Whoo, that's a close one. Singletary was Ray Lewis without the off-the-field baggage. But, yeah, I'd give the Steel Curtain the edge on their defensive backs. The problem the Bears' opponents QBs had was not having the time to exploit the secondary.

Funny thing, a guy like Lambert coming out of college today wouldn't even get a second look. 6'1", 215 lbs when he stuffed himself the night before--some people claim that the Steelers official roster added 10 lbs to him, that he actually weighed closer to 205. Just goes to show, for all the tests they give prospects at the annual combines, heart isn't one of the things they can predict.