Congratulations to the Seattle Seahawks for achieving football's holy grail this season, The Vince Lombardi Trophy. Congrats are also in order to Russell Wilson as he quietly and systematically went about becoming the second African-American to win The top prize of this most challenging sport.
The first African -American to win a 'Super Bowl' was the QB for the Washington Redskins, [Doug Williams], he was promptly discarded by them and never even endorsed a single sneaker, from Converse, Adidas or Nike.
Despite the crowning of the various professional pundits who gave the crown of 'greatness' to Andrew Luck', despite the gaudy numbers of Colin Kaepernick's running stats or the impressive stats of Cam Newton, Mr Russell Wilson just methodically dismembered all the opposition on his way to becoming a legend in his own right. Perhaps he needs to win two more to be considered an Elite QB to be called up in the same conversation as Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
As for the games MVP, I personally think that Percy Harvin should have gotten the award. Why?? Because the minute he stepped on the field with his teammates their confidence level [the offense] rose up three notches.
Not only did Percy put a spark into the offense in the first quarter/half, he livened up the entire game, and his first play of the second half which resulted in a touchdown was the proverbial knife to the heart of the Denver Broncos.
Now unto Fox and their almost incredible coverage of Super Bowl weekend. Alec Baldwin's opening for Saturday night's NFL awards program was pure comic genius at it's best. Indeed all of the nominees for the Walter Payton 'Man of The Year' award were indeed deserving of it, and Charles Tillman even more so.
Fox was indeed on a roll until three hours before kickoff when they had to inject a sour note in the days festivities and give themselves a black eye by introducing politics into the most holy of football days.
How dare you Fox??? What on earth possessed you to commit this sacrilege??? The good book says, and it has even been put in song, that, there is a time for every thing, and believe me leading up to the big game was not the time to interject some knee jerk reporter bent on political assassination instead of honoring the warriors of the battlefield of football and overseas.
If the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces were there to give verbal appreciation to the brave men and women stationed overseas, that would have understandably been a good thing. Having served overseas myself if one's unit was not in the field or on high alert, it was always a welcome relief to get the game on the AFEES network,and relaying greetings to loved ones back home is always a winner. Memo to Fox Honchos, have you ever seen a political debate or convention get interrupted by a Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, soccer or Football game???
Don't you ever make that mistake again. And now to my awards for the best Ads in my opinion. Pistachios, great innovation takes the top prize for being the best after the slow starting promo. The Second best goes to Doritos for the kid with the time machine, absolutely hilarious. The third goes to Ford with Riggles and Franco and the double up, nicely done. Fourth prize also goes to Doritos again with the little girl riding the mastiff and lassoing the prized package from her brothers grasp when before she could hardly throw the rope anywhere.
An overall great weekend in football history, a great job by Fox [except for the political faux paus], another great football season has come and gone. For those of us who love the game, next season can hardly get here soon enough.
Incidentally I forgot to give kudos to KIA and Larry Fishburn for the arias he did, it was, er, window shattering to say the least, ha ha that ad has a most honorable mention. And by the by wasn't it ridiculous that New Jersey Transit had Over 100 buses and drivers standing idly by with the drivers receiving overtime for doing absolutely nothing while our visitors and football fans had to suffer needlessly through chaos waiting for path trains to leave New Jersey.
Once again New York and New York sports gets a black eye for New Jerseys shenanigans, Why doesn't New York just go ahead and secede from New Jersey? After all, give the title New Jersey to the Giants and the Jets, as in truth that is indeed where they play at, in East Rutherford N.J. Truthfully the only team that plays for the state of New York are the Buffalo Bills.
So if you agree we should change the N.Y. Giants to the N.J. Giants and the N.Y. Jets to the N.J. Jets then lets start a campaign to do so, Jersey gets all the money and glory while all New York gets is bad mouth and the blame whenever anything goes wrong. This ought not to be so.
And so my fellow football aficionados while we wait patiently for the start of next season, live well, be happy, make love, we bid you Peace.
