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Is The Super Bowl Really Super?

Take personal team allegiances out of the mix and ask yourself this question.  What did you answer?  If you're like me, which few are, your answer is no.  Two weeks of hype and hyperbole and we usually get close games that come down to a mistake or a fluke play.  Sometimes we end with a great play, but in an otherwise boring game.  Last Sunday's game was a good one, but far from great.  There wasn't one offensive play that dazzled and years from now, we're only going to remember Wes Welker's dropped pass.  Chase Blackburn made the play of the game and 90% of Giant fans didn't know who he was before the game.  So why is it so super?

Sure we've had great games.  The Steelers/Arizona game, The Patriots/Panthers game.  The Tennessee/St. Louis game.  These were the three best in the last 15 years.  Sadly, all I remember was Fitzgerald's TD with minutes left, but had to look up Holmes' catch for the win.  I couldn't remember who Brady's counterpart was against Carolina and I couldn't think of the player who lunged for the end zone, just coming up short for Tennessee.  That's the point.  The Super Bowl doesn't give us the memories that other events give us and a big part is that the game sometime takes second stage to the theatrics.

Every year, the two minutes that is the Kentucky Derby, lives up to the hype.  The World Series almost always has that one game that is unforgettable.  The majors in golf and tennis both always contain an epic battle.  March Madness is probably the epitome of living up to the hype and some of the final games have been the best in all of sports.  Football fails on so many levels.  In college, the bowl and championship games are played a month after the season is over and the Super Bowl is played after two weeks of no football.  It's silly and archaic.  The extra week, now filled with the ridiculous Pro Bowl, ruins it for me. 

It's also the only sporting even where people hold a party at their house.  Tons of food and people screaming and telling.  Mostly at the commercials.  I find it funny that the Super Bowl I found most memorable, was the one I watched all alone.  Sure, I had a vested interest, but it's the one game I remember specific plays from.  All the others are a mixture of different years, blended into one memory.  In other sports, I remember where I was, who I was with and sometimes even the emotions I felt.  I remember the play by play of some of these events, but can't for the life of me remember one football call from the Super Bowl.

The Super Bowl is a spectacle and sometimes it's even a decent game.  It's rarely super though and that is a shame.

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