What Did We Learn This Week In Sports? [Super Bowl Edition]

The only thing harder to watch than Madonna flashing her granny-panties on stage at the halftime show of the Super Bowl was the actual game itself.  What did we learn this week?

-The New York Giants are your Super Bowl champions after upending the Patriots 21-17 in Indianapolis.  All this after the Giants started the season a very mediocre 7-7.  Ahmad Bradshaw fell into the endzone with under a minute to play giving the G-men a four point lead.  With time left on the clock, Tom Brady had the chance to do something magical.  Brady ultimately fell short, as his hail mary pass bounced just out of the reach of tight end Rob Gronkowski.

-I know he’s going to get a pass because he’s Tom Brady and he’s been a premier quarterback for as long as we can remember and your girlfriend pictures him naked when she’s with you… but Tom Brady did not play a very good football game Sunday night.  In fact, there were stretches when he down right stunk.  Look past the stat sheet, book worm.  Watch the game.  In fact, replace the name “Tom Brady” with “Jake Delhomme”, “Colt McCoy”, or “Jay Cutler” and see what happens…

*Jake Delhomme got called for intentional grounding in the end zone on the FIRST PLAY of the Super Bowl!  

*Colt McCoy woefully under threw his tight end, resulting in a Chase Blackburn interception.

*Jay Cutler routinely missed open receivers on the final drive of the Super Bowl.

All of those things happened Sunday night, but because they happened to Tom Brady, people won’t remember it.  Mostly because people are sheep.  Baahhhh….

-For those quick to jump to Brady’s defense… digest this, Lamb Chop; Tom Brady was 0-5 when throwing the ball more than 20 yards.  An oddity?  Or a trend?  In Super Bowl XLII, Brady was 0-8 in passes over 20 yards.  Bahhhhh…. 

-On the other side of the ball, Eli was Eli.  He was consistent, he was accurate, and he was methodical.  He didn’t turn the ball over and kept the New England offense off the field, winning the time of possession battle 37 minutes to 22 minutes.  In the end, Eli looked like he’d been there before.  Probably because he has.  In his two Super Bowl appearances, Eli Manning has engineered not one, but two 4th quarter game winning drives.  Not bad for the goofy looking brother.  Err…goofier looking brother.

-Half time was a debacle.  Some of my favorite tweets from Super Bowl halftime;

*@DownGoesBrown – Seeing this broken down shell of a legend limp around their field is preparing Indy for Peyton Manning next season.

*@FinkDontStink – Lady Gaga’s grandma is killing it out there!

*@Scheiboeski – Worst halftime show I’ve ever seen.

*@JockPost – It looks like Madonna has an inner ear problem.

*@Donniccolo – Apparently the middle aged men who plan the Super Bowl don’t realize that theres no market for middle aged women to sing pop music.

-To be honest, I didn’t watch the halftime show.  I assumed what those tweets confirmed… that Madonna is a washed up bag of prunes that I didn’t care about even when she was in her prime.  I watched the Puppy Bowl.  Here’s what you missed…

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