One for the Ages
David Tyree says -you're my bitch now Mr. Rodney Harrison!
What a game! Definitely the new goalposts through which all future Super Bowls will be kicked. I didn't really have much of a pitbull in the fight but rooted for the Giants because they were clear underdogs and us Americans, when we're not using the soil of sovereign nations as dragstrips to roll overwhelming military force, loves us some underdogs.
Here are three life lessons* from Super Bowl XXVVXXXIIIV
1. Cheaters never prevail - The Football Gods do not smile kindly on videotaping other teams to learn to steal their signs. Belichek got what was coming.
2. Creepy old men rule the world - those geriatric 17-0 1972 Miami Dolphins players have some strong mojo/juju. That perfect season curse of theirs is mighty robust. Don Shula is 103 years old and drinking champagne. If the Pats had thrown a game during the regular season they would have won the Super Bowl.
3. Supermodels mess up your game, man - This is the primary reason I don't date supermodels. They get in your head with all of their physical perfection and petulant demands and overall poutiness and before you know it you're not bringing your A game and some huge sweaty man is pounding you into the turf.
*Life lessons are fundamental truths about reality and life-based choices drawn from major sporting events that help us live in more authentic and valid ways. Example - NASCAR icon Dale Earnhardt's refusal to wear that head/neck restraint during the Daytona 50000 race and resultant eye popping** instantaneous death from a wall crash teaches us to always eat our peas and carrots if we wish to grow up healthy and strong.
**A nurse I know who was working at the Daytona Trauma Center when they brought Dale in, told me the impact was so severe that Dale's EYEBALLS HAD BLOWN out of his damn head. Kids, eat your stupid veggies.
It's fitting that you used that picture of Tyree and Harrison, because that was really the key play of the game. People are going to blame Tom Brady for what happened last night, but I think everyone needs to remember that the Pats had the lead with less than 1:30 left and the Giants had a good 80 yards to go. If you want to blame one person, blame Rodney Harrison. During that final drive, he had both hands on two different Eli Manning passes and failed to intercept either. He also failed to knock the ball out of Tyree's grasp on that clutch play, even though Tyree was using his helmet to secure it. Rodney Harrison choked, big time, and that's what cost the Pats the game and the perfect season.
Posted by: Car Guy | February 04, 2008 at 05:49 AM
You're correct, and Tyree quite simply outmanned Harrison for that catch. Stunning play really.
Posted by: Bob | February 04, 2008 at 06:01 AM
There was a game?
Posted by: Pixie | February 04, 2008 at 06:02 AM
YES PIXIE THERE WAS. Tom Petty rocked the halftime, rocked it!
Posted by: Bob | February 04, 2008 at 06:07 AM
Tom Petty DID rock it! Even Blue Kid was totally into that halftime show.
Posted by: blue girl | February 04, 2008 at 07:28 AM
I watched the last minute of the game...so, I think I saw all I needed to see...except I'm sad that I missed good ole Tom.
Posted by: toadman | February 04, 2008 at 08:28 AM
I see a lot of #3 decals with little wings and halos where I live in OH...now I need to find a #3 with flaming eyeballs--preferably 70 muscle car cartoon style like the cover of the birthday party's Junkyard album.
Speaking of eyes, Eli can open his again...hell of a scramble but the pass was a prayer...Tyree or the someone on the D should have gotten the MVP...I give Eli the Fortitude Award, though...
As for the old men, I'm a Miami fan who saw every home game in '72 as a kid--they were great but almost entirely without charisma--I doubt they ever had the mystical ability or supernatural inclination to muster any effective mojo/juju...
Posted by: OutOfContext | February 04, 2008 at 10:14 AM
Bob, like you I didn't have a dog in the fight either.
But when they cut to Brady's super-model girlfriend drinking red wine out of a long stem glass in her private suite that pretty much made me route for the Giants.
Posted by: Skimmer | February 04, 2008 at 10:32 AM
Tom Petty managed to escape with half of his integrity intact, so he came out well ahead of EVERY OTHER ROCK ACT that succumbed to the gaudy allure.
It makes me wonder how many times he had to argue with some clueless event organizer that he would NOT agree to the parachuting bikini models during "Free Fallin'."
Posted by: billy pilgrim | February 04, 2008 at 12:36 PM
I *knew* he was going to end his little mini-set with "Runnin' Down a Dream."
Do I get a prize for that or anything?
Posted by: blue girl | February 04, 2008 at 03:36 PM
New England was ROBBED. Period.
Tom Petty was good - but that beard has to go. Do you think he lip synched?
Posted by: Janet | February 04, 2008 at 09:17 PM