-Terry Bradshaw, Fox football analyst and former Steeler great, said afterwards that this was the greatest Super Bowl he had ever seen. Methinks that's probably because the Patriots loss allowed Bradshaw to remain the only quarterback with four, count 'em, four, Super Bowl victories to his name. Tom Brady is on hold with three.
-Bill Belichick is an odd man. He looked stunned after the loss, which I suppose makes sense since pretty much he, and everybody else on the planet, expected the Pats to win. I can't help thinking what Mike Ditka would have looked like had he been coach of a "perfect" team that just lost the Big Game. I don't think he would have simply looked shocked and crossed the field to shake the opposing coachs hand. Ditkas head would have exploded. No, really. When the seconds counted down to zero-zero and his team was a loser, Ditkas head, filled with crazy rage, literally would blown into a million pieces. Now that would have been interesting.
-These Patriots are football robots, none more so than the lead automaton, Tom Brady. Walking off the field after the Pats loss, he simply did not look all that upset. On the other side of the coin, Plaxico Burress (Plaxico is a great name!), the Giant who caught the winning touchdown in the waning moments of the game, started to cry (presumably with astonished joy) while giving a post-game interview.
-The Giants were emotional, they played with emotion, with FIRE really, and were emotional after the game. Emotion Is Good. So why don't I care all that much that the Giants beat the Patriots? Well, for one thing, it's against the law for a Chicagoan to root for a New York team, much less to be happy when a Gothamites win a Big One. For the record though, I am happy the Giants won. Kinda.
-I'm more happy that the Patriots lost. They deserved to lose, if for no other reason than the way they handled Spygate. Yeah, they were fined for filming on the Jets, and lost draft picks, blah blah blah, but Belichick never stood up like a man and confessed to his teams sins. He just stood up in his taciturn way and said he wasn't going to take any more questions about it ever again, and that was that. Maybe the NFL told him to play it that way, but it doesn't set a good example when the Head Dude can't admit a mistake, apologize and move on. That's what winners do. The Patriots got what they deserved, to be close to the ultimate victory and have it yanked away from them.
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