First off, that was one hell of a game. Had the Cardinals held on and not allowed a touchdown drive spanning the entire field to end the game, Arizona would have had the largest comeback in any Super Bowl to win, as they trailed by 13 at one point in the game.
Santonio Holmes won the MVP, deservedly so, but he almost cost his team the game as well with one of the best touchdown celebrations I have seen. Thanks to the No Fun League's strict rules, using the ball as a prop at all in any celebration is supposed to be a 15-yard penalty. I personally love touchdown celebrations as long as they are a spur of the moment kind of thing and are creative, not something like Joe Horn with the cell phone or Ocho Cinco with the HoF jacket, but Holmes' celebration was great. In case you missed it, here it is.
But the rules are the rules, and Holmes' should've been flagged. I'm glad he wasn't because as I said, it's too strict a rule, but it is a rule. And it wasn't the only time the Steelers benefitted from a non-call. On James Harrison's 100-yard interception that he returned for a touchdown, I was convinced the flag on the play was a holding because on plays like that, the flag is almost always for a holding (or a block in the back). Instead, the flag was against the Cards for hands to the facemask. Fine, that probably happened (don't remember seeing a replay of the penalty or not, doesn't matter since the half ended anyways) but there was a pretty big hold on that play.
That's the play, and there's a decent view of a huge hold on Kurt Warner (at about 35 seconds into the video) to the point where a Steeler just grabbed his jersey and pulled him around and out of Harrison's way. Should've been called back.
Still, the Cardinals should be ashamed of that play. You can't let a D-lineman run the entire length of the field on you, you just can't. Also, terrible play call. All they had to do was throw a fade to Fitzgerald and they would've gone into the half with a lead, not a 10-point deficit. At least they wised up and threw the fade to Fitzgerald the next time they were near the goal line.
Larry Fitzgerald had a tough break in the game. His defense let him down as he was clearly going to win the MVP had the Cards been able to stop the Steelers from going the whole length of the field. The Cards LVP? Mike Gundy who had three holding calls called against him. Kurt Warner also has some LVP votes for that pick to end the first half and for looking pretty ordinary on a lot of passes in the second, but overall had some good plays.
But it was a fantastic game. I always love a safety, and yeah, this one came via a penalty, but a safety is a safety. Plus it made the game much more fun to watch as it gave the Cards a chance, a chance which they almost capitalized on.
I'd have to say it was a down year for commercials though. I felt like there were a lot more local ads then usual, which is never a good thing. The Cash 4 Gold ad with Ed McMahon and MC Hammer was pretty good. I also really enjoyed the careerbuilder.com commercial where they punched a koala over and over again. I love koalas, they are adorable, but something about that commercial made me laugh a lot.
I also almost cried during the commercial where the two babies were talking. I'm not really even sure what product they were selling, which is a good thing for the company that "employs" them (child labor laws much?) because I would never buy their goods. Talking babies creep me out. I don't know why, they just do. Everyone I was watching the game with, you know, everyone who doesn't have an irrational fear of talking babies, seemed to think it was a great commercial, but I was just scared. Glad it didn't happen in the second half when I was a few more beers in, it might have killed me then.
There were two moments in the commercial that we had to re-watch over and over again (mmm, TiVo). One was Bruce Springsteen "bossing" his nuts on the power slide into the camera during a superb halftime show. The other?
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