Super Sunday

I know what some of you are thinking....this again? I think I've posted at least 4 pictures of Big Dumb Ben on this blog since August. This should be my last one for awhile.

Let me say this: I'm glad he lost. Not really happy that his team lost, but after last year's allegations and charges against him (credible BUT unproven in a Court of law) I think he's a piece of crap human being. To be fair to him, many of his peers are probably just as bad. The entitled athlete is not a new development.

If you're a Facebook friend of mine you've perhaps noticed my repetitive references to Ben the Rapist, etc etc. Here's my bitch with you Steeler fans out there: you have a great team, but why were y'all so quick to forgive this clown? What's the hurry? He never once bothered to apologize to the woman/women he hurt - not publicly. Show me where he did so - even once - and I'll take it all back.

Again, forgiveness is divine, but there's no need to rush it. Especially for a millionaire athlete.

Enough of him. After today, unless he does it again, I'll let it go.

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There was a pretty interesting game Sunday. I think the better QB won, but not the better team.

Aaron Rodgers is not like 2002's out-of-nowhere Tom Brady. He's been a pretty good QB for a couple seasons now on an up and coming team. It's no surprise to see him win a title, but it was perhaps surprising to see him beat a superior football team almost single-handedly.

Steeler fans, face the facts: your QB is not that bad, but he's not world-class. His team carried him in Super Bowl XL (with the assistance of some amazingly poor officiating) against Seattle. Santonio Holmes made an amazing end-zone catch vs Arizona a couple years ago that pulled out a win - and Big Ben gets credit for driving them downfield in a clutch situation. Sunday, he was out of tricks. True, his O-line let him down on occassion. But, more often than not, he was simply off-target.

Troy Polamalu is a good strong-safety, but he can't cover a mattress. The Packers exposed his weak coverage skills by forcing him away from his strengths (on the line of scrimmage) and out into pass coverage - where he's been toast. Baltimore torched him. The Jets did, too. He was a non-factor in the playoffs. I don't know if it was an injury or not, but he was invisible.

James Harrison was absent for nearly all of Sunday, I think he had a sack. But so was the vaunted Steeler D-line. In fact, the Steeler defense looked confused on Sunday. Had the Packer WR's not dropped at least 6 passes, the statistical yardage would've been near-historic.

The only reason that the score was close was all of those drops. This coulda been a laugher, folks.

That it wasn't is a testament to the talent on the Pittsburgh sideline. I think that if the Super Bowl was a best-of-3 tournament that the Steelers would win 2 of 3 games. Such are the risks of a winner-take-all playoff.

But, hell, give Rodgers all the credit. He made lemonade out of lemons. Jordy Nelson is not a goat, purely because Rodgers wouldn't quit on him. Clay Matthews' golden locks are now gonna surpass Polamalu's in popularity. Just wait til summer, all the blonde kids at the county fair will be sporting Clay-dos.

Anything else? Nah. The commercials sucked. All of them.

For me, the fun was watching the game with my 10-year old son. He was really into the game and living and dying with every first down. He was actively rooting against the Steelers (like me, though for different reasons I'm sure). I can't recall ever seeing him get so excited about a game before. Kinda cool.

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So football's done. There's a chance that there won't even be a 2011-12 NFL season thanks to the expiration of the CBA. Great, the only workplace in America where a union has ANY power anymore - owned by billionaires and operated by millionaires. All we fans want is some gridiron fun. A-holes.

As for my team's chances of seeing The Big Game, they're as dim as ever. Danny Snyder has engaged in a well-publicized war of words with a free paper in DC, and threatened to sue the pants off them for defamation and anti-Semitism. The irony of a Jewish billionaire being offended by a defaced photo of him (looking like a devil) whilst the name of his professional sports franchise is "Redskins" is beyond amusing. The sublime leads to the ridiculous and is boiled down into Silly Soup. Jee-zus. I'd put the Redskins at 50-1 to win it all. Maybe 100-1. Seriously, I'm considering jumping off the 'Skins entirely - every year's the same crap.

But, I don't like purple. So I guess I'm stuck.