SuperBowl XL

[chipper 0]

STEELERS WIN!!!!!

it was a good game to watch.

[Wilco 944]

The refs won it for the Steelers.

That is all I'm going to say.

[shinRaiden 0]

*) The calls were atrocious, and this is yet another blight due to the NFL's systematic market teiring strategy discriminating against 'pro-level farm-teams'.

Alternate tin-foil hat conspiracy theories :

*) Instead of convienently covering up and closing the case, the City of Seattle and Monarchy County have been found in contempt of court repeatedly for refusing to disclose the cooked books used to promote the stadium. Until King Ron and cronies learn to toe the NFL line, Seattle must be 'punished'. Furthermore, as the citizens voted 75-25 against the new stadium - while tens of millions of dollars in outstanding debts remained on the old Kingdome - the legislature railroaded it through as an emergency project. This resulted in a team with a severely damaged market due to incompetent fan service, something than even anime trolls know how to provide.

*) Valve's publisher-independent 'arrogance' is a huge liability risk to mega-corps like EA who bet their stock price on the ability to maintain exclusive league licenses. EA probably leaned on the NFL to throw the game to send a msg to Valve.

*) Mike Holmgren's contract is up for renewal, and there's rumbles that he's going to make the owners sweat it if they want to keep him. Do you think that he'd just 'give' the owners a freebie?

*) Qwest sponsors the Seahawk's home field, and Ford the Super Bowl field, both technically viable companies run into the ground in disgrace by inept mismangement. The bad chi vibes doomed it from day one.

*) On one hand, the vast right wing conspiracy threw the game for the Stealers because it's the north-east good old boys and big-iron industry and the seattle nutzos being backed by the corrupt architects of the largest elections fraud in the nations history, and the eco-commies supported the blue-collar unions and opposed the white man's perversion of native american symbolism and free animals.

*) The conservative pundits will point out that the working class fundamentally conservative middle class clearly backed their team over the minions of liberal extremism and their hippie owner, while the christian fundamentalists will point out the vengeful hand of god against the demographically irreligious Left Coast.

[booradley60 0]

I thought the FedEx commercial with the cavemen was pretty funny.

[EiZei 0]

That iceball world championship bronze finale (Finland vs. Kazakhstan) was pretty exciting too..

[CanadianTerror 0]

From what I watched, the Steelers got all the breaks from the refs big time.

I really didnt care who won and I noticed.  

EDIT: And that one Steeler TD where they went to the video replay...that DID NOT go over the line. So that was not a TD.

[TDogg 0]

Seahawks choked... Was nice to see Bettis go out on top with a superbowl win.

[Rikki Tikki Tavi 0]

Seahawks didn't make a lot of big plays they should have, but the Steelers proved it always helps to have the refs on your side. Changing the entire feel of the game for a call like holding (when the Hawks had passed to the 1 yard line) is despicable on the ref's part.

[Placebo 29]

These are international forums, as the SuperBowl is not an international event it's really not entitled to a thread.

Football European Championship, Football World Cup, Olympics, Hockey World Cup etc. etc. they can have a thread. Superbowl, Baseball's "world" series, English FA Cup etc. cannot.