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This year I didn’t really care who won the Superbowl, but I was hoping for a good game between two really good teams.  And for the most part, I guess it was a good game.  The score was close the entire game, but something just seemed a bit off with the Colts.  Peyton had that amazing pass in the first quarter, but nothing else really stood out, aside from some missed-tackles, and an inability to phase the Saints.

Not that the Saints looked all that great, either.  Yeah, Drew Brees tied the record for most completions in a Superbowl, but I couldn’t help but feel underwhelmed by both team’s performances.  Maybe it was all the Bud Light commercials.

Speaking of commercials, the best of the bunch was the Betty White one for sure.  Is anyone else sick of the eTrade talking babies?  I noticed, that unlike last year, there were no commercials for luxury automobiles.  I remember thinking last year, is this idiocy or bad taste,  every time they showed a Lexus or BMW commercial during the game.  Kia is the only one that stood out this year.

I do not want to see Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood.  And can someone please tell me why the Prince of Persia would have an English accent?  Shouldn’t it be… I don’t know… Persian.  You’d think that after The Passion, and even Inglorious Basterds, people would come to expect and appreciate a little authenticity and credibility in their movies.  I realize that Hollywood can’t afford to cast an actual Iranian in the movie as the lead (or any other dark skinned guy, they probably would’ve settled for Benecio Del Toro, but he was already doing The Wolfman), but if you’re going to fake an accent, at least fake the right one.

One last thing about the Superbowl.  At the start of the game I was siding with the Colts.  Peyton Manning was great on SNL, and he’s done some funny commercials, too.  But after the Saints went for it on 4th down at the end the half, but didn’t make it, then the Colts practically handed them the ball back, and the the Saints did get a field goal– And then lead the next half off with an onside kick, which they recovered– well, at that point it really looked like one team had their heart in it and the other didn’t.  And that seems like a terrible thing to say.  These guys train and play all year just to be in that game.  So it makes me wonder if a team can whoop another team so as to make it look like that other team just doesn’t care.  I know what it looks like when a team is just terrible, that was the Chiefs pretty much all season.  And I’ve seen it with plenty of Rams seasons, too.  So I think I can recognize bad, and being dominated pretty easily.  But one thing I didn’t see this year with the Chiefs was a lack of heart.   Just a lack of talent.  I don’t know what to say about the Colts the last 3/4 of this Superbowl.