Boom, Boom, Bust

Some quick post-Super Bowl XLV thoughts:

- what a disaster for Dallas. In an effort to get into the Super Bowl rotation, things couldn't have possibly gone worse for them. Throw out all of their other issues (there were many), because it comes down to two things: 1) Ice injuring people outside of the stadium, and 2) the 400 fans left without seats for the game. When you screw up the safety of fans, and the fan experience, that's a black eye that doesn't go away.

- between Christina Aguilera's National Anthem flub and the shrieking awfulness of Fergie's version of the classic G&R hit "Sweet Child O' Mine", the music was some of the worst I've ever heard for a Super Bowl. Just brutal. I expected more from the Black Eyed Peas.

- Aaron Rodgers’ stats would’ve been even more impressive if he wasn’t the victim of several drops. One by James Jones and another by Jordy Nelson each would’ve resulted in long TD passes.

- Greg Jennings is one of those guys that just makes big plays. It seems like he always has a line of like 4 catches but a pair of scores.

- the running backs were largely ignored even though both played pretty well – James Starks only had 11 carries, but had 52 yards (4.7 ypc) and Rashard Mendenahll had 14 touches for 63 yards (4.5 ypc).

-Pittsburgh’s decision to kick a 52-yard field goal with Suisham didn’t end up hurting them, but it was a really poor decision. Sort of like trotting out Stover for that long attempt last year.

- Pittsburgh lost the game in the third quarter. They forced four punts, and had three straight possessions with the score at 21-17 and couldn’t do anything with it. On the 4th possession from the Green Bay 33, Mendenhall’s fumble gave the Packers the ball back.

- loved the option call from Roehtlisberger to Randle-El on the two-point conversion, but I still feel like ‘Twan should always run that.

- the Buck/Aikman booth was one of the most boring and unentertaining broadcasts in Super Bowl history. They added absolutely nothing to the game, and were completely unmemorable, even in critical moments. Neither of them told me something that I didn’t know about either team during the game, and it’s like they went out of their way to not mention Brett Favre.