At least the MVP was a Buckeye

There are not many positive adjectives I can use to describe the finish to tonight's Super Bowl in light of the fact that the Browns' mortal enemy has now made NFL history with six Championships. Okay so it was one hell of a game...and the one thing I can take from this game is that the game-winning catch was made by an Ohio State guy, Santonio Holmes. Holmes is why the Steelers won the game and at least those with an official opinion agreed with me and named him the MVP as a result. But, I believe that the key to this game was at the end of the first half when Kurt Warner made a huge mental error, leading to James Harrison's record-setting-longest-play in Super Bowl History and a turnaround of 10 to 14 points in favor of Pittsburgh. Other factors included penalties, Arizona's inability to use Larry Fitzgerald and Ben Roethlisberger's knack for avoiding sacks. One note on Fitzgerald is that throughout the playoffs, Todd Haley (Arizona's offensive coordinator) had been targeting Fitzgerald regardless of whether or not he was double-teamed (ranked 2nd overall in the league in targets in each week of the playoffs) and yet today he (or they or Warner) let the Steelers' defense intimidate them from throwing to their best weapon until the very end when they had no choice. In the end, Arizona ran out of time or just scored way too quickly at the end and now the really annoying thing is that despite the fact that Roethlisberger's best skill is not passing the ball, but running away from defenders, I'm now going to have to hear from those wearing terrible towels that he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame one day. Ugh.

One more small positive: at least for those betting (which is who I'm obviously writing this for), at least you won if you took the Cardinals.

Finally, for those of you, like Snoop Dog, who like to point out that this is the second victory to a black head coach (he was on ESPN's pre-game show and I was really bored earlier today), you are definitely missing the point of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech...but perhaps you actually don't care.