[Fresh Wind]

Imagine how rotten you’d feel if you had spent $1K or more for a ticket!

[Peter W. Kessler]

I watched 3/4 of the game at a friend’s house with a bunch of friends from church.

We had a great time, good food, good conversation and fellowship.

The game was incidental.

...as it usually is.

Superbowls are seldom as good as many of the playoff games that determine the participants in the “Big One.”

And, as usual, the game was over-hyped by about 99%. I missed the Pre-Pre-Pregame Show, the Pre-Pregame Show, the Pregame Show, the Pre-Pre-Postgame Show, the Pre-Postgame Show, the Postgame Show, and the Post-Postgame Show.

I did enjoy the singing of Our National Anthem, however.

[discostu]

We’ve been spoiled by 1 score SBs being the norm in the 21st century. Blowouts are gonna happen it’s part of sports. That being said this one was actually pretty entertaining. The Seahawks were having fun, and that’s fun to watch. And I like hard hitting smash mouth football winning the big one, the NFL is a copycat league so this will hopefully lead to more defensive oriented football in the league. Time for the shotgun spread to fade, bring back the mouth punch.

[Talisker]

You know, I use the word "karma," but it seemed like everybody -- except for the Seahawks -- was running at half speed, at half consciousness. Everybody. It was the weirdest sensation watching the Super Bowl. I never got comfortable watching the whole game. Nothing seemed right, and I really did, I really had visions of Rupert Murdoch being carried out of there on a stretcher in a panic over the ratings.

We'll see. (interruption) Yeah. Snerdley is saying, "It does line up with the times, 'cause it doesn't feel right." There was just too much mediocrity out there, and not commented on as mediocre. The mediocrity was championed as excellence or that we should at least accept it as excellence and I thought it was disastrous.

Karma? Karma hasn't started yet.

It's still being determined.

[righttackle44]

Yeah? Yeah? We . . . I didn't watch the Superbowl because just as the game was coming on, I heard a sound outside my window. Looked out, and it was a Star-Sprinter. (Star-Sprinters are the smaller craft launched by the humongously larger mother ships.) I ran outside, threw the waterproof coverings off my NSA-surplus laser attack M6-40 and began firing. I knocked out two sprinters right away. Then the sprinters, instead of strafing, began light-bombing runs. (Light bombing runs are when they use light bombs rather than heavy bombs.) When the sprinters peeled away, my Airedale and I went looking for prisoners. Found two aliens using some sort of hyper-gloss boom-boom. I engaged in two fire fights, each lasting several hours. After it was over, I counter 84 alien corpses. I was preparing my flame-throwers to burn the bodies when a black 1897 black Cadillac showed up. Two very tall, not-very-human-looking beings got out and warned me that if I mentioned my fight with they aliens, they'd come back for me. And THAT, ladies and gentlemen, is why I didn't watch the Super Bowl. Dumb, stupid people telling us why they're too good to watch a football game.

[fortheDeclaration]

The Broncos won their 'Superbowl' by beating the Patriots.

They were not ready to play this game.

[Arm_Bears]

I turned off both after a couple of minutes—The game after the snap went over Manning’s head and Rush after he hemmed and hawwed and said he couldn’t divulge his innermost feelings.

[MinuteGal]

Rush voiced his disappointment with this year's Super Bowl, citing a number of reasons and refusing to expound on others.

But he made it clear that the whole spectacle, both leading up to and including the game itself gave him a feeling of "something off", a malaise, something not right.

I had the same feeling...and I'll leave the weird game itself alone as Rush did for the most part.

Here we have a major SPORTS event. The teams and their various players and the game itself should have the starring roles.

What do we have now, both leading up to, during and after the game itself?

The weather was a star.

The NJ/NY subway crush was the star.

A failed president was the star.

Bill O'Baxter was a star.

A political interview with a liar was a star.

Each commercial was a star.

Commercials that didn't make the cut were stars.

A beer company's Dog-and-Pony Show was a star.

An American patriotic song sung in foreign languages was a star.

The dreadlocked guy with mis-placed road-rage and a big mouth was a star.

Deafening, posturing, tune-deaf, half-time "entertainment" for teeny-boppers was a star.

A vigorous post-game riot was a star.

I'm sure I missed out on many other stars and would-be stars....but let's face it, more than in any previous years our senses were endlessly and relentlessly star-STRUCK....and the eventual game itself paled in comparison.

I'm sure next year will be even more "star-studded" than this year.

As Jimmy Durante famously said, "everyone wants to get into the act"...and I guess everyone CAN get into the Super Bowl act now....and anybody or anything outrageous, loud, sick, political, greedy, propagandizing or opportunistic apparently can attach itself to the game's coat-tails in efforts to become "stars".

Now, even past, present or future football teams can non-perform or under-perform in the Game of Games.....and still remain stars......hmmm.....

Leni

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Well it WAS nice to see an NFL team play real team defense. The Steelers used to play that kind of defense, back when they were a winning team.

[upcountryhorseman]

It’s a pity, the 49ers could have beat them. Note how close the score was, when the 49’ers played them. It appeared that
Denver could’nt handle “smash-mouth” football!

[a fool in paradise]

I thought the ads, maybe three ads, three or four ads were any good. The rest of them were mediocre. I had spent all this time telling all of you to pay attention to the ads, because advertising people have their finger on the pulse of our culture and if you really want to learn where we are as a country and so forth, make sure you watch the Super Bowl ads, and they were a bomb.

[a fool in paradise]

That was one of the age-old NFL rules, Super Bowl game by rule, they had to blow that rule out, cannot occur in a place where the average temperature dips below 50 on the day of the game. That's a law, NFL law. And of course they broomed that 'cause they had to pay off this stadium. I mean, that's the deal. That's how you assign Super Bowls anymore. You get a new stadium, the league will come in and play the game there, help you retire the debt or whatever. That's fine. It's their business. We'll just look at the overnight ratings and we'll see what happened, look at the second half. I'll betcha we're gonna be able to watch the bleed-off of the viewing audience.

Does ANY city ever pay off its stadium debt completely?

[thirst4truth]

Seahawks is my team, from Seattle live in Oregon. But had a family member playing for the Broncos so it was hard to not root for his team. He plays center and offense special teams for the Broncos, and its the first time I have seen him on the field.

[Fledermaus]

Rush’s program is getting to where reading the transcript is a waste of time. Can’t he condense it? Do we have to (interruption), no Snerdly, I didn’t say no to transcript..what? no.

Seriously. Transcripting the banter in his ear from the staff?

[4Liberty]

Thanks for posting, missed Rush today (had stupid meeting at work)....

I was disappointed in the game. I heard several sports “experts” say it would be a close score, competitive outcome. That’s why it was so shocking to watch (for me). What happened???? Where was the other Team? It almost seems like it (the outcome) was rigged. Guess that’s possible too.....

Go, Kaslin! Thanks again.

4L

[crusher]

It was such a stinker I started working on my laptop early in the first quarter, and when my wife asked to watch Downton Abbey at 9P EST I did not mind.

[Amagi]

I'm glad for the Seattle fans.
I'm especially thrilled that America will not be subjected to bitter Seattle Whine again.