Dan Patrick On "Best" Super Bowl
TAMPA BAY - What does "best" Super Bowl mean to you? Most cleanly played? Most important? Most exciting? It's a very broad definition, isn't it?
I mean, this year's game was more exciting than the Patriots-Giants Super Bowl, but that one was more important given the history on the line for New England.
And the Patriots-Panthers Super Bowl was probably more cleanly played and nearly as explosive. But if you had to say which game had the most "Are you &%%*(@ me?" moments, it was this one.
I talked to Dan Patrick from NBC, his own show and whoever else will have him (kidding, Dan).
He said, "You could make an argument that it rivals or surpasses last year. Last year only had a great six or seven minutes to it. This game had...the longest return in Super Bowl history, a couple of questionable replay calls and then, that final quarter, that was dramatic football. I think sometimes we look at a game and call it great because it had a great finish. This wasn't a great game because I don't think the Cardinals played very well and Pittsburgh didn't put Arizona away when they should have. But when there were times for big plays, the marquee guys made plays. Roethlisberger, Holmes, Warner, Fitzgerald. So if you were tuning in to see the Cardinals, you got your money's worth. And if you tuned in to see the Pittsburgh Steelers you got your money's worth as well."
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These are my "most exciting" Super Bowls.
1. Cards-Steelers
2. Patriots-Panthers
3. Titans-Rams
4. Patriots-Giants
5. Patriots-Rams
6. Bills-Giants
7. Niners-Bengals II
8. Steelers-Rams
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I think the best thing that came from the Superbowl for me was heard on the TOday SHow this morning. A young player, whose name I did not catch, told the world that HE REGRETED that he had not called and restored relationship with his mom before she died. The win was diminished for him by this fact. Relationship are more important than life achievements and wins and he wanted people in this position to make calls and restore relationships before it was too late for them like it was too late for him. He bared his soul to the world about his heartache in his time of victory as far as the world could see in making this appeal. Countless people will take his advice and mend their hearts and this will have much more of a lasting affect on the world than who won the game, yet winning is what gave him the chance to say what he said. I wish I could contact him and tell him how much this meant to this MOTHER and so many other people in the world.
The Super Bowl was great. The game announcers were great, as always. Michaels/Madden is the best.
However, the pregame show is the worst in the business. Bob Costas used to be one of the best. He now loves to hear himself talk, interjecting obvious comments into the other announcers' commentary. Is it an embarrassment that NBC hired Matt Millen, who single handedly destroyed the Lions. He was a good football player, and nothing more.
But, by far the worst part of the show is the idiot who believes he is the smartest person on the planet, Keith Olbermann. What a jackass!
His use of the word "peripatetic" during his Cardinals segment showed how peri PATHETIC he is. Any announcer who looks around when dropping a big word like that should not be on a football telecast.
Again, what a jackass!!!
I hope NBC retools the Sunday pregame next year. It is unbearable to watch.