>>This is a slightly sports obsessed site so I am surprised no one has said anything yet about the Super Bowl. So here we go. I have plenty of thoughts about it but will lay back.
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>GO PANTHERS!
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>With that aside, I pulled for the Packers in this one.... hated both teams, but pulled for them since the Steelers have won 2 the last 6 and I want the underdog to win once in a while.
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>Christina... what can you say? If you don't know the words, at least try to learn them, or else have a teleprompter or someone with cards there to help... .sigh...
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>Black-Eyed Peas? I knew they were in trouble when the girls mike failed right off to start. She would've been better off if had stayed off. Harmony???? The show itself was spectacular, too bad about the singing.
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>The Steelers? Too many mistakes to overcome.
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>The Packers? Wow... all the injuries and still overcame them. Too bad the Panthers can't learn from them.
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>I watched most of the game and I though it was well officiated. Can't blame the refs on this on.
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>The commercials were forgetable except Darth Vader. Cute. Kids always win in commercials. And pets.
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>A very good Superbowl.....

Yes. I heard on the radio yesterday that the preliminary numbers said it was the most watched Super Bowl ever. Which sounds weird at first, since the traditional view is you need teams from big markets. The Super Bowl apparently transcends that traditional wisdom. And now that I think about it, I can believe it. It was a match between two storied teams who have both won multiple championships. Two blue collar teams in a recession. The entire nation still in the grip of winter weather, more so than usual. We were all in the mood for a nice nostalgic Super Bowl.

My theory? Yellow looks good in hi-def ;-)

The guy who is sitting on top of the world is Aaron Rodgers. And good for him. From everything I hear he is exactly what he seems to be, a nice young guy with a lot of talent. One of the guys on the radio related his early career. The Packers still had Brett Favre, a hall of famer for sure, and most fans wanted the first pick to be a lineman. They went for Rodgers. He spent his first couple of seasons as Favre's backup, i.e. the guy on the sidelines holding a clipboard. In March of 2008 Favre sat in a room with Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy and said, not for the last time, I'm retiring. At that point one of them -- McCarthy, I think -- went to Rodgers and said this is your team now. Favre came back to them that summer and said he wanted to come back and they said sorry, too late. And it did indeed become Rodgers's team. It was an unpopular decision at the time. With the benefit of hindsight, which one of them would you have wanted behind center on Sunday?

I think I related this before but there was a terrific local color article in the NY Times a week ago. The reporter went to Green Bay -- which you should all understand is a gritty blue collar city somewhat stuck in the last century -- and found a coffee shop or bakery or something near Lambeau Field, where Rodgers is a regular. They said he's the nicest and most regular guy you'd ever want to meet. "If you didn't know he was the quarterback of the Packers, you wouldn't know," one of the counter ladies said in classic midwesternese. She said he waits in line with everyone else, is amiable, and banters with the people behind the counter. I predict a bright future for him ;-)