Not much to write about the journey today, so I will add a few more random musings about the Super Bowl. Not that anyone asked my opinion or anything.
- I was disappointed with the way it ended. Less than a minute on the clock and down by two scores, you've got to take a shot at the end zone. Brett Favre would have. Yeah, he would probably have thrown and interception and ended the game right there, but at least he would have gone down swinging. Before the game, Hasselbeck talked about a quarterback having to have a "gunslinger mentality," but when the game was on the line, he went down with his six-shooter still in his holster.
- A lot of people are talking about the poor officiating, but I really didn't see it. There was the one questionable call on Hasselbeck for blocking low. But the Roethlisberger touchdown was a reasonable call. They replayed it a billion times, and it was really, really close. The official on the field made the best call he could, and there was no evidence on the replay that he was wrong. Touchdown. And Darrell Jackson pushing off of Chris Hope? You gotta call that. Jackson's arm was extended and his hand was on Hope, creating separation. That's a foul. The replay showed it wasn't a hard shove, but that's not what the rule says.
- I think Hines Ward was not the MVP. It was hard to pick an MVP. No one really stood out as making a lot of big plays. Really the MVP should have gone to a defensive player, because the defense won the game. If you have to give it to an offensive player, how about Willie Parker? He set a Super Bowl record for longest run from scrimmage, and that score changed the momentum permanently from a tight game to Seattle playing catch-up.
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