While still trying to come to terms with the fact that there was a red carpet at the Super Bowl...
10:03 - Tom Brady and the New England Patriots are fallible. Repeat. Tom Brady and the New England Patriots are fallible. Prepare the shock the world speeches. An entire season's worth of yammering and record setting. Gone. The Patriots are officially interesting in the eyes of Chuck Klosterman.
No matter how you look at it, Belichick leaving the field with one admittedly meaningless second left was bush league.
Somehow, however, I think this bodes well for the Celtics. Obviously the Patriots failure will deliver the C's a vetern back-up point guard and a post presence off the bench. That's karma.
9:57 - If you're gonna give up the go ahead touchdown might as well do it on first down. Are 35 seconds with three timeouts too much time for Tom Brady?
9:52 - Manning, staving off a certain sack, slings it to Tyree. That is exactly the sort of play that kept the Patriots undefeated this season. This time it happened to the Giants. Less than a minute left and 24 yards to go. It took a while, but this is going to be good after all.
9:42 - Can Eli Manning "arrive" before our very eyes?
9:40 - Randy be Randy. Touchdown Patriots. I've watched them do it all year but it's still amazing. Brady's been just a touch off all game. He missed Moss on 1st & Goal then threw a slightly risky pass on 2nd and I'm wondering if New England will just play if safe and get a field goal. Stupid me.
9:31 - Shotgun formation and quick hits. Can't get sacked that way. Belichick always has something in reserve. Always. Patriots driving, 4:40 left.
9:11 - 10-7 Giants. What's amazing is not the score but that the recent success of Boston's sports teams has resulted in what now seems like a very real chip on New York's shoulder. I wouldn't call a win by New York tonight bigger than the Red Sox coming back from a 3-0 ALCS deficit but it's in the same ballpark.
9:08 - 13:25 left in the game. The Patriots might be in real danger here and that's the first time I've felt that way all season. There's a lot of game left but I'm now starting to look for a proper context should this upset happen.
9:03 - That makes two straight super, scintillating, scoreless quarters. Next touchdown wins?
8:37 - Challenging to get a 12 men on the field call...sort of like calling every foul line infraction in your Tuesday night bowling league. It will help you win but it seems sort of slimy.
8:32 - Shaq as a jockey. Genius.
8:16 - Well, I got one from the good list and only one from the bad so I'll call the halftime show a push. (Nice beard, however.) You always hear musicians say that playing live, not recording or writing or groupies, is what drives them but I seriously wonder how many times you can possibly play Free Fallin' before it just seems like a job.
7:54 - 7-3 HALFTIME. I need to hear at least two of following three songs from Tom Petty: I Won't Back Down, Last Dance With Mary Jane, Don't Come Around Here No More. I do not need to hear Into the Great Wide Open, Learning to Fly, or Runnin' Down a Dream. I suspect the odds are not in my favor.
7:42 - Mmmm, Doritos. I would say that realizing mice do not come from arch shaped holes in the baseboards of your walls one of the ultimate disappointments of adult life. Rather, they infiltrate your home through much smaller holes. Like the size hole that holds the cable which is probably piping this thrilling 7-3 first half into your house right now. Nothing is ever as good as it's made out to be.
7:28 - 26 minutes closer to National Signing Day. (Also 26 minutes closer to Mexico v. USA in Houston.) If it weren't for the Pro Bowl I would have no problem going on record as saying the Super Bowl is almost annually the least interesting football game of the year.
7:02 - Already one quarter in the books and it's 7-3 Patriots. That, folks, is perfection. Scoring TDs when the other team scores FGs. At least in these playoffs it has been.
6:57 - If you were an NFL player how many tattoos would you get? Without a doubt, I'd have two full sleeves. There are a couple of reasons for this thinking: 1) physically you're a freak of nature and what better way to show that off and 2) even though your career is likely over way before you're even 35 your legacy as a former pro trumps everything else. Say you want to sell cars after your career is over. Rather than looking at your arms and thinking "how irresponsible" all anyone will ever think is "he used to play for the Giants."
6:46 - Do the SNL writers get residuals from that Diet Pepsi Max ad? (If you would like nothing but commercial talk, FOXSports.com is tackling that angle live right here.)
6:36 - Ability to breathe fire ad? Bad. Not a good sign if Bud Light is off their commercial game. Of course, the whole "commercial game" has become much less fun now that it's covered so extensively.
6:28 pm - I don't think you can really overestimate the value of Super Bowl experience. I can't imagine what it must be like to have to a) go to Boston's old city hall and read to random lines from the Declaration of Independence, b) now in Arizona show up midweek to tape some random bit about teamwork while standing behind a dais under a blue light, and finally c) stop on your way back from kickoff to talk about what your defense plans to do when they're on the field in, oh, 90 seconds.
Tedy Bruschi did all of those things and showed no signs that it was bizarre or cumbersome at all. Been there, done that.
6:00 pm - The whole Declaration of Independence? Was that necessary? What better welcome for the countless millions watching worldwide than the Dear John letter we sent Great Britain a couple hundred years ago.
And don't forget to vote!
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