Posted on 02/06/2011 7:23:47 PM PST by Plumberman27
The Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25, to win Super Bowl XLV in a game that went down to the final minute.
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Because he's bitter.
Fun read, this thread. I didn’t have a dog in the fight, but here’s my impressions:
The Steelers seem to function like a tank, steady, stable, chewing up yards and clock time, and coming after you. The Packers seemed to be the guys shooting from behind the trees, from every direction, hungry for the prize.
The Steelers didn’t look hungry until the last two minutes when the Pack only managed a field goal, leaving the window wide open. But the Pack defense outplayed they Steelers offense.
The Packers looked like they knew the Steelers offense pretty well, and were able to figure out a way to win. I thought going in the Steelers were the team to beat, although I watched them lose twice on Sunday nights this year. They lost the same way, just ran out of steam or something.
With all the injuries, I was surprised to see the Packer keep advancing every weekend. After they drew the Bears in the final four I knew they’d make the big dance, but history seemed to be writing up the Steelers win in advance. I didn’t expect the Pack to pull it off.
Please see post 158 and stop acting like a liberal. You can’t just make stuff up because you WANT it to be true! Got it, Ms. Maddow?
You're right. The Packers fans here (at least some of them) are showing themselves to be very un-gracious and rude "winners." To hear them, you'd think luck was not part of the game. Well, if they need to have their noses rubbed in it to learn a lesson and a little humility so be it.
I contend that any team that picks up 21 points off turnovers is lucky, period. I haven't bothered to look up stats, but 30+ years of watching NFL tells me with +3 in the turnovers, and 21 points off of them, you should win going away. Anyone who has watched more than a season or two knows this is true. The fact that the snotty Packers fans here were biting their nails, hanging on to a mere 6 point lead with a minute to go tells me the Steelers played a good, hard game and were able to battle back to within striking distance. The Packers fans here know this, real NFL fans know this. All the bluster and name calling (sore loser etc.) won't change it.
Of course they (the Steelers) didn't get it done. Bravo to the Packers (the team). Rodgers is a very good QB, he got it done even with a one-dimensional game and a receiving core that dropped a lot of passes. However, to the rude, un-gracious Packers fans here, you should be embarrassed and ashamed of yourselves. You know your team was lucky. That's the way the game goes sometimes. It's a funny shaped ball, and it bounces the way it wants to. I'm the first to admit the Steelers have been on the good side of many lucky breaks too. Anyone who watched their playoff games with the Ravens and the Jets might reasonably conclude the Steelers used up all their luck there. We were (very) fortunate in those games that the Ravens and Jets obliged us by playing just slightly worse than the Steelers. Neither of those games were high-water marks for any of the three teams. The Super bowl was perhaps the Steelers' best post-season game this year.
The main takeaway from last night's game... For NFL fans everywhere... Dang... What is it, six months to training camps? ...
All i can say is you guys only won by a few points after we gave the ball to you three times. If the packers were so good it should have been a blow out. We still have our six rings and you guys have a long way to go to equal that in the modern day and age of football. Look for the packers to back in a couple years but they will never repeat and it may be fifteen more years before they win it all again. They may not even make the playoffs next year.
Yes, two interceptions and a forced fumble. They weren't lucky turnovers, the defense pressured Ben and Mendenhall and they coughed up the ball. Rodgers took advantage of two of those and scored toughdowns, and Collins ran back the INT 37 yards! Luck had nothing to do with it. The Packers lost Driver and Woodson in the first half and the Steelers still couldn't win.
Dry your eyes. Unlikely you'll be back next year with such an old team.
(Is there an ignore button on this thing?)
A few years ago,I had the occasion to visit an elderly nun in her retirement convent in Wisconsin on a football Sunday. If those old nuns are any measure of Cheesehead loyalty, then Green Bay has nothing to worry about.
steeler fans for the most part have been gracious and given credit to the pack. Now , if it were Vikqueen or bear fans, it would’ve been all about the refs or the missed calls or how they got jobbed. New -found respect for steeler fans and
the class they show during defeat.
I suppose being at the top consistently gives you that perspective versus 0-4 superbowl vikings and only 1 superbowl bears.
Class act Steeler fans
I can think of one bitter pissed off Mississippian this morning!
First of all, the Steelers didn't GIVE away the ball -- the Packer defense TOOK it away. That's good football, not luck. And secondly, if you insist on speaking of "what ifs," the Packers would've won by a helluva lot more than 6 points if they hadn't dropped a half dozen big passes. ....passes those receivers don't normally drop.
The better team won, Hoss. If they played 10 times, the Pack would win 7 or 8.
It wouldn’t be 7 or 8. The Steelers really made 3 big gaffs that gave it to the Pack, if they avoid any one of them they win. In the end the game boiled down to this, the Pack played great all game except for one receiver with a bad case of dropsies, and the Steelers never really managed to get above good. Everybody talked about the Packers injuries but remember Ben and Troy were playing with busted feet, not so noticeable in Ben’s performance, but Troy only blitzed like 4 times in their entire playoff run.
Pack were definitely the better team yesterday, but I ain’t giving better team 7 out of 10 times. I think perfectly healthy these are two pretty evenly matched teams that would come about 50-50.
Again, those turnovers weren't gaffes. They were the result of bigtime pressure D. Combine that with the fact that the Pack were playing without 7 starters (including their defensive leader and player of the year) and all the uncharacterisic dropped balls, and it's quite obvious that Green Bay is superior. 7/8 of 10.
Eh, the first pick was pressure, but there was also the screwup of Wallace not seeing the ball was over thrown and turning defender. Had he properly read events he could have at least tackled the defender. And Ben should have read it pressure, it’s not like it came from his blindside, it was right up the middle. Ben’s second INT was just plain a bad throw, he threw his man right into the coverage. Rashard’s fumble was a lot of luck, he actually had it tucked pretty well but Mathew’s got the perfect hit, then two Steelers completely fail to see the damn ball and try to get it. Not saying Green Bay didn’t play well, just saying they were all preventable. And the Steelers were playing without starters too, basically the whole o-line has been subs most of the season, and two key guys who were playing were nursing injuries. Better on the day, not better overall, though if you must believe that go ahead.
"Must" believe it? lol....project much, Stu? I'm not a Packer fan, so frankly I don't give a rip who's better. But it's obvious to those with unbiased eyes that the Packers are the superior team.
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