The game
started slowly. The Carolina Panthers weren't moving the ball at all
but a missed 30-yard field goal and a blocked field goal kept the game
scoreless until the final 3 minutes of the half. The New England
Patriots scored first with a touchdown. But sudenly Jake Delhomme
started hitting his receivers and the Panthers went right down the
field to score an answering touchdown. And then the Panther defense
failed and New England answered right back with another touchdown. But
squib kick and a Stephen Davis 20-yard run let the Panthers score a
50-yard field goal to close the half down 14-10. 24 points in a little
over three minutes.
I wasn't paying quite as much attention in the second half because I
was playing Diablo. But the scoring continued. New England scored a
touchdown. The Panthers scored two touchdowns in reply, missing two
2-point conversions so they only led 22-21 with a few minutes left in
the game. New England scored a touchdown and with a two-point
conversion went up 29-22. But the Panthers scored again with about a
minute left to tie it up at 29. Unfortunately, the Panther defense
couldn't stop Tom Brady from leading New England right down the field
so they could score the winning field goal.
It was an amazing game. Lots of defense in the first half and lots of
scoring afterwards. The Panthers kept pace with the Patriots and showed
great poise in the loss. I'm a little sad that the Panthers lost since
I was rooting for them, but they played well so there is no shame.
Really, I was only rooting for the Panthers because they were the NFC
representatives and New England had won the Super Bowl only two years
before.
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One of the big
attractions for the non-football fans are the Super Bowl commercials. I
wasn't really paying attention since I was doing housework during the
commercials. I did see the Apple/Pepsi iTunes commercial. There are
people who say that it is an anti-RIAA commercial but I didn't see that
at all. It's more of a "why steal when you can get it legally for
free?" And if I bought and drank soda I'd probably drink Pepsi to score
some songs. But since I don't drink soda there's no reason to start
just to on average pay $3 (or whatever 3 bottles of Pepsi cost) to get
a $1 song.
Now that I think about it I don't remember any other really memorable
commercials. There were actually a lot of standard commercials that I'd
seen before. It's just not as big a deal for advertisers to create cool
new commercials to air during the Super Bowl. The best series of
commercials from yesteryear were the Bud Bowl I commercials. At the
time they were brilliant. Bud Bowl II was less so and Bud Bowl III was
kind of boring.
So Barb and Eric had a Super Bowl party which I didn't attend. Really I
don't want to be in a room where half the people are rooting for the
other team, especially when the other team wins. It's just really
annoying and depressing. Some people can take it in stride but I can't.
And of course I'm recovering from Saturday gaming so it's not like I
was in the mood to waste a few of my precious free hours.
Anyways, it was a great and entertaining game and now it's time to move
on and continue with my routines.
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