1. Christina Aguilera, who admits to having sung the National Anthem since she was 7 years old, butchered the lyrics, repeated the lyrics, changed a few words such as "gleaming" to " reaming", and in general set an all new low standard for performances. She was so worried about free-lancing a song that should never be free-lanced, so made a fool of herself in front of tens of million fans. Her performance bordered closely to the Roseanne Barr debacle years ago.
2. Deion Sanders, who as usual, thinks it's always about him. His fellow inductees were all dressed beautifully, very proper and low key, while Neon Deion lived up to his nickname, looking for all to see as if he were trying to pimp out the blonde bombshell butcher of the anthem.
3. Troy Aikman, who seemed disinterested at best and lethargic at best, during his pre-game, in-game and post-game conversations. He showed no animation whatsoever, referring to players as "he" and "him" and the teams as " they". Did he even know who was playing?
4. Joe Buck, who I actually felt sorry for all the years he did baseball with that senile fragment of a player, Tim McCarver, who stumbled and stuttered through every inning, now messing up names and dates and places all on his own, misreading cue cards, and in general seeming very uncomfortable in front of the cameras.
5. Finally we get to the game. Troy Polamalu needed to spend more time reading the scouting report and less time making hair commercials for that useless doo he piles into his helmet. He was two steps late on every coverage, misread several coverages, and just seemed to constantly stare at the big board after every play to see how bad it all was.
6. Big Ben Wanna Come Into My Stall Roethlisberger gets the ultimate stiff of the week. Beleive it or not, it isn't for his poor performance, the two INTS, the overthrows and more overthrows. No, it's not for any of that. Anyone can have a bad game. Heck, he's had two in a row where his QB rating barely reaches his age. No, it's for his newfound habit of calling out his teammates on the field. He has learned from Peyton Manning very well. Every time he missed a pass, not some of the time - every time, the camera showed him pointing down the field and gesturing in all directions to his receivers, as if to say " You ran the wrong route ". That is Manning's calling card, but Ben is getting good at it. He's calling out Hines Ward - are you serious? I think after 13 years, Hines knows the routes to run. Roethlisberger was forthcoming after the game, but it's too late Mr. Bathroom Date-in-Waiting. You messed up bigtime and you kept pointing at your teammates. That's bush league, buddy. You are not Tom Brady, you are not Peyton Manning, you are not Joe Montana. You are lucky to be where you are. Your defense and running backs won you one Super Bowl ring where you barely showed up. They also won the game getting you into Superbowl XLV. You had a 36QB rating 2 weeks ago....36....... closer to 0 than respectibility. Your diehard fans just keep looking past all of your nonsense, because you have a black and gold jersey on. They're loyal, but you don't deserve them.
7. Bad but not least - Kurt Menofe - when they came back to do a Superbowl recap, he looked like the deer in the headlights. He seemed shocked that they wanted him to speak and he stumbled through a few lines until he finally just signed off to Glee.
8. Jerry Jones - $1.2B for this place, Jerry - really?....really?... PA system failure....temporary seats not safe enough for 400 paying customers so they couldn't sit down at $2000 per seat they paid....snow falling off the roof and injuring workers...really? Jerry, really?..... did you use the Metrodome as a model? I'm surprised you weren't on the field trying to get some face time as you always do.
9. How about those $60 pizzas? Good?????
10. A-Rod can't stay away from bad press,eh? The camera just loves to show what a fool he is. His 40+ year old honey of the month is feeding him popcorn. He's laying back like the male? version of Cleopatra, minus the grapes. And he wonders why people think he is such a fool.
11. John Madden - texting????? - really John?????? - do you know how to text or were you just calling luxury box service for another hoagie or two?
12. Someone wake up John Travolta and tell him there's a game going on...John!!!!!...wake up John!!!! He thought it was a Scientology Convention I bet.
13. George W. Bush and Ms. Laura - how cute they were, sitting with that frozen grin on their faces. Did GW think it was a Texas Rangers game?...wrong sport W.....
14. Frank Caliendo - why are you imitating Barkley? - that is so yesterday and half the people watching the FOOTBALL game didn't know who Sir Charles was.....what was that about?
It was a very forgettable Superbowl, but I know one in the future that will be more forgettable. Superbowl XLVIII will be in the Meadowlands at New Giants/Jets whatever the freak the name is Stadium. It will be in February, 75 inches of snow on the ground, snowing during the game, 7 degrees below zero with 40 mph winds and Howie Long will be sitting there with a light sweater and plastic hair talking about real football and this is how it should be . Ask the 2,000 people in the stands how they're feeling......
When does baseball start? Soon, I hope !!!!!!!
