Super Bowl - Flagging the Haters

Flagging the Haters; the game rocked, move on

What a great Sunday night of action and I'm not just talking about the hilarious opening sequence of "The Office". From James Harrison scoring the longest touchdown in Super Bowl history to Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald nearly pitching and catching their way to a fourth quarter comeback before Ben Roethlisberger and Santonio Holmes snatched victory in the closing seconds, the game was a classic. Period. There was so much back and forth action in the final minutes I was afraid my nose was going to start bleeding like all those folks on "Lost".

Big Ben was tap dancing fool. You can take the running QB types, but I'll go with the nimble gunslinger every day of the week. Holmes was his toe-tapping accompaniment on that final score, but how did the pass get to him in the first place?

These are the stories I think folks should be talking this morning yet the vast majority of discussions and e-mails that I have participated in today are focusing on loser talk. The refs screwed the Cards. The Steelers got all the calls. Puh-lease.

Outside of the diehard Cardinals fans, all 10 of them, my advice to all the haters...get over it. People like rooting for the underdog, but the favorite did what favorites often do.: Win. It was a money game, especially for Cardinals backers who covered the 6.5-point spread, further confusing my big game sensibilities. Yes, there were too many penalties called in the game. I can live with that argument to a degree, but one-sided, not buying it.

Of the last six penalties called in the game, five were against the Steelers, including a holding call on the final scoring drive. Calls tend to even out, but hard to overcome them in the final minutes. The Steelers did. Deal with it.

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