This Sucks

First of all let me start out by saying, Charles Woodson quit on his team, period. There's no question about it. Woodson isn't tough enough to play this game. Broken Collarbone? Please. You would have to paralyze me to drag me off that field. According to the Deion Sanders, Mark "I don't care what the truth is" Schlereth, Jason Whitlock, and Mike Ditka's of the world, that clearly is the case. They all went out of their way to say that despite whatever injury happened, a player is not allowed to be removed from the game by the doctors/trainers/coaching staff during the postseason. If he does, he's quit on his team. If the same standard is true for Jay Cutler, then it HAS to be true for Charles Woodson right?????? Do you finally see how STUPID that sounds?!

As for the actual game itself, I'm sorry, but I refuse to call this game "Great". I really can't. Even the objective part of my brain can't make that commitment. "Very Good"? Sure. "Entertaining"? Absolutely. "Physical" definitely judging by the amount of injured/quit on their team, players in the game. But "Great"? Nope. Great is reserved for monumental achievements like Super Bowl III, Super Bowl XXXVI, or Super Bowl XLII. Great is for once in a generation games and signature moments like Montana to Taylor in Super Bowl XXIII. The only record broken in this one was fewest combined rushing attempts at 36 for both teams. YAWN.

Forensically, this game came down to turnovers. Three for the Steelers, none for the Packers. The big play was Clay Matthews forced fumble on Rashard Mendenhall for the first play in the fourth quarter. That play paved the way to another Packer TD that made the game 28-17, and effectively made the comeback hill too steep to climb for the Steelers. With regard to the Field Generals, Aaron Rodgers played exceptionally, and would have had even better numbers if his receivers didn't drop certain passes. Ben Roethlisberger had two costly picks despite good numbers. Oh and before I forget, the Steelers shouldn't bitch about the no-call at the end. That was awesome coverage, period.

As to the rest of the pomp and circumstances, this Super Bowl also sucked too. Jerry Jones must have a tremendous amount of egg on his surgically altered face. The weather was absolutely lousy all week. About 800 fans with tickets were not allowed seats because the Fire Department would not approve the temporary seating to accommodate them. The Black Eyed Peas are being called one of the worst Super Bowl Halftime Shows ever and I'm in complete agreement. This was only the 4th largest Super Bowl crowd ever, not number 1 as he'd hoped, and it's pretty much a done deal that you'll see the Super Bowl in New Orleans again WELL before North Texas.

In closing, I can't help but feel cheated in a sense simply because I still believe that while we're not a better team than the Packers necessarily, we can still beat them. Again you know I don't blame our NFC Championship loss on Cutler at all. I just think our defense showed that the way to beat the Packers is to rush four, and force the Packer receivers inside.

Now the real fun begins as we will now get to see if this lockout talk is for real, or just noise. My prediction : There will be missed games this year. How many will be missed will be up to the league.