Superbowl yawn

My interest in the Super Bowl wasn't very high once again this year because I didn't care about either team. Well, I did manage to muster up some desire to see the Steelers get whipped since they beat Indy, even though that was Indy's fault for playing a brilliant season, then having a very subpar game the moment they hit the playoffs. Again. Anyway, the Super Bowl...

It was boring. Plus teams turned in subpar performances. It really looked like the best two teams weren't there. Of course that can easily happen when one game in the playoffs determines whether a team advances or goes home. There was no question that Indy was the best regular season team, but if you have one bad playoff game, you're done. That's the way it's always been. Great teams step up when it counts.

So the best teams weren't there, and it sure seems like the best referees took the week off too. The officiating was atrocious, and unfortunately the bad calls almost always benefited the Steelers. The worst was when Seattle was absolutely robbed by a bullshit offensive pass interference call on what would have been a TD reception. The tiny amount of contact that occurred happens on damn near every pass play run. Granted Seattle helped dig their own grave by horrendous, downright amateurish clock management at the end of both halves.

Idiot quote of the day, again on the Danish cartoon controversy:

"They want to test our feelings," protester Mawli Abdul Qahar Abu Israra told the BBC.
"They want to know whether Muslims are extremists or not. Death to them and to their newspapers," he said.
hmm... I think you just answered that question, Mr. Israra Extremist Whacko. The full article from the BBC is here.