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Dammit. I screwed up. The other options are in a separate poll.

And the fourth option was supposed to be "rooting for the Steelers".

(I voted for the asteroid, BTW.)

Thanks Ellie! You have awesome computer superpowers!

(And, at this point, it should be abundantly clear why I scored so low on the "nerd test".

Buck up Aresen,
Ellie has administration rights (I hear she's sleeping with Grylliade himself) granting her compu-fu beyond that what is available to us mere mortals.

I simply have never been much of a spectator. But beyond that I have not been able to develop an enthusaism for a team or for that matter for the game.

I always enjoyed playing sports, hell, I played rugby until I was in my mid-forties and probaly would still be [trying to] if abdominal and knee surgery hadn't done me in.

Actual joke someon told after my abdominal surgery, "Isaac doesn't play rugby any more. He just doesn't have the guts for it."

Worst. Superbowl.... In recent memory, anyway.

This just put icing on the shit cake that was the NFL this year, and I don't say that because I hate the Steelers (which I definitely do not). I say that because the penalties have gotten completely out of control.

I used to hate the people who said things like "Let them play"...but for chrissakes, let them play!

I voted "Doing something else and not give a damn about the game?" I watched a bit of the game with 3.45 left in the 4th quarter in Nevada and watched the last 45 second in California.

Gandy couldn't handle Harrison. At all. He was clearly under instructions to hold if he had to, and that's what he did. You can't not call the holds unless you just want to give the game to the Cards. The roughing call was BS, I grant, but it didn't really have any impact on the game, because that was the drive where the Cards held the Steelers out twice and we kicked the field goal anyway.

That last fumble could have gone either way, but I think if you think it was a fumble, you're saying that Warner didn't have possession by the time his hand was moving forward, which I can see.

There weren't any "Ohmygawd, look at that!" ads, I agree; but, on balance, I think this was a better crop than from the last several years. Interestingly, however, the ads for movies and TV shows and channels were a bit better than most of the product ads.

Here, btw, are the commercials for those who think watching a football game is too high a price to pay to watch a few good ads.

Okay, as to commercials, here are a few I thought were pretty damned good:

TV doesn't rot your brain, Alec Baldwin does:

Need a new job?:

Whose future doesn't include a promotion?:

I like the E-Trade baby. The golf game was better but this one was up at Hulu and wasn't half bad:

And finally, come on, the new Star Trek trailer:

Stevo, I think it's after the presidential innauguaration, which I'm pretty sure is any day now.

I think the last fumble was a fumble. to me, it looked like a pump-fake and not a forward pass attempt.

Anyway, I know that my assessment that last night was one of the worst Super Bowls has earned me many a crossed-eyed look today, but (and, again, I say this as someone who rooted for the Steelers), but the lopsidedness (and excessive) officiating threw that game to them. Look at the numbers and the play performance of say, Warner as opposed to Rothelisberger, and, to me, it is clear that the Super Bowl should have gone to the Cards.

Not only were there a lot of non-calls (and yes, I did see a lot of holding on the part of the Cards) that went in "favor" of Pittsburgh, but it felt like whenever there was ref discretion, they called the penalty against Arizona rather than just hold the damn flags. We even witnessed intentional "falling over" to draw the penalty, a dishonest little ploy I thought was reserved to the NBA.

All in all, not a happy win and a game that was punctuated too much with "god damn...there's ANOTHER penalty?"