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Yeah, About the Super Bowl

Posted on | February 7, 2011 | 15 Comments

You will recall that I predicted the Obama Jinx would doom the Steelers. So all you Steelers fans who scoffed at my prophecy, suck it.

Speaking of sucking, did that halftime show suck or what?

The Black-Eyed Peas were exposed as the Milli Vanilli of the 21st century. Take away their studio effects, and what are you left with? A rap group with a white chick dancing around, pretending she can sing. I’ve seen better acts at a karaoke bar.

Also, Christine Aguilera screwed up the national anthem. The NFL should have a policy: If you’re hired to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” and you screw it up, you don’t get paid.

The game itself was similarly plagued by screw-ups. I counted at least four dropped passes by Green Bay receivers, and I didn’t even watch the whole game. When I play catch with my sons, I tell them: ”See the ball, catch the ball. Look the ball into your hands.”

If you can reach it, you can catch it.

Catching a football is about concentration — a matter of mind-power — and while it may be difficult to concentrate when a cornerback is chasing you, there was simply no valid excuse for professional players on a championship team to drop passes like that.

They ought to be running wind sprints this morning, as punishment. Dropped passes, fumbles, missed tackles, penalties — stuff like that, you make ‘em show up at the field the next morning to run a certain number of wind sprints per punishment. I don’t care if you just won the Super Bowl, team discipline permits of no such exceptions.

Don’t like it? Find another line of work.

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Comments

  • Joe

    You need to change your name. Coach Stacy does not have it going on. But you were definitely channeling some Lombardi in that post above so keep up the good work.

  • Joe

    Coach Stacy just does not have the same ring as Vince Lombardi or Bill Belichick or even The Big Tuna. You need to work on your handle when you start channeling Vince Lombardi like that.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    Cheerleader Captain Stacy works but Mrs. RSM might have a thought on the matter.

  • http://sbvor.blogspot.com/ SBVOR

    I don’t recall the last time the Super Bowl featured halftime entertainment that was actually entertaining. But, The Black Eyed Peas took Super Bowl halftime mediocrity to a new all time low. It was painful to watch — VERY painful.

  • http://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/ Mike

    Hey, that sound guy who forgot to turn Aguilar’s mic on at the beginning of the National Anthem should be given a medal. And Fergie should kick whoever’s ass for telling her she could sing. Looked like the Blackeyed Pimps with a Whore out there. Whatever happened to halftime shows with The Boss…or Jimmy Buffet?

  • Joe

    Bring back the Stones.

  • http://qwertyaltofuori.blogspot.com Red

    The Superbowl has been plagued by mediocre half-time shows for awhile now. Who would be your ideal performer? Personally I’d like to see it go old school: bring back the marching bands. But they have to be southern. Those folks know how to jam!

  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    To hell with the Stones..

    Bring back ZZ Top

  • Serfer1962

    It was a great game. BUT the pass fumbles were startling. How could pros not catch the ball? and so Often?
    I protest the anthem. Its not a rock concert, its our National Anthem. If you can’t do it the respect it deserves then don’t let these clowns do it at all. Try the Cactus Cuties if you want to hear it done right.
    The half time angony? Haven’t watched it in decades,,,the commericals are better

  • Anonymous

    Was there some kind of game on last night?

  • vermontaigne

    Speaking as a Packers fan, I have to be grateful for that horrible, seemingly endless halftime show. It gave Dom Capers time to come up with zone packages for the replacements for Shields and Woodson.

    The drops were awful, though, and the excessive celebration and phantom facemask and no catch rulings kept Pittsburgh in the game. Even with all of that, Rodgers came up with a 111 quarterback rating.

  • Anonymous

    “Coach Mac,” maybe?

    Seriously, when I was a kid, we had youth football league coaches who were tougher than these NFL coaches nowadays. You’d be running laps in the August sun — I’m talking 10, 11 years old here — with maybe one water break every hour. Maybe. Being thirsty was a sign of weakness.

    It’s a miracle we didn’t all die of heat stroke.

    Some of our coaches back then were WWII or Korea vets. Some of them had gnarled noses from back before facemasks were common equipment. And all of them believed firmly that there was nothing wrong with running kids as hard as they could run for as long as they could stand it.

  • Anonymous

    Rodgers is a gamer. No doubt about that.

    I’m not really a pro football fan. Growing up in Atlanta back in the days when the Falcons were perpetual doormats in the NFC West, I was always more into college ball.

    Or that is to say, “ROLL TIDE!”

  • K~Bob

    Concur on the halftime show. I think the BEPs are at least as talented as a High School glee club, so they should get paid to play gigs that will hire them. It’s just that some venues should expect higher quality talent for the kind of money the BEPs got paid. Singing on pitch, for example.

    (For those who think that’s too critical, a trained vocalist will be able to hit a pitch even if they cannot hear themselves in the monitors.)

  • http://twitter.com/meanolmeany paul mitchell

    Ours gave us salt tablets, too. That was awesome.

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