The wailing and moaning began on social media last night about halfway through the Super Bowl...."boring"...."what a lousy game"..."terrible game"....yada yada yada. You heard it all and probably said something similar yourself.
Well, I have often said, and written in this space, that sporting events do not come with a guarantee. Some of the games that you watch or attend might be downright lousy, and most of them will be pretty unmemorable. In a vacuum, Super Bowl LV won by the Bucs yesterday would fall into the latter category. If it was played in the 1:00 time window on a Sunday afternoon in October, it would be forgotten pretty quickly, but this game was NOT played in a vacuum, and while the outcome was known pretty much by the end of the first half, this game WAS memorable for two reasons:
- It was the Super Bowl. I mean, C'MON MAN, and
- Tom Brady was in it and won it.
Need I elaborate? His tenth Super Bowl appearance. His seventh Super Bowl win. His fifth Super Bowl MVP Award. And he's FORTY-THREE YEARS OLD!!!! Will anyone ever even approach such accomplishments in the future? Maybe, but it won't happen in my lifetime, and I certainly wouldn't bet on it.
I've also said this before: Those of us alive today never had the chance to see Babe Ruth play baseball, but we HAVE gotten the chance to see Tom Brady play football. Appreciate it, because we will never see his like again.
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Patrick Mahomes remains the most exciting player in football today, but there is no denying that he had a bad day, a very bad day, yesterday. It happens. It is almost inconceivable that the Bucs could have kept the high powered Mahomes and all of his weapons out of the end zone for the entire game, but it happened. Makes me think that Eric Fisher, the Chiefs all-pro offensive lineman who got hurt in the AFC Championship Game and missed the game yesterday, might well have been the MVP of the entire NFL this season if his absence yesterday made THAT much of a difference. It also makes me think that every NFL coaching staff will be studying those game films from yesterday when they prepare to face Kansas City next year.
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No offense to The Weeknd, who is undoubtedly a talented and dynamic performer and entertainer, this is nothing against him, so I am not shouting at clouds here, but I do believe that Super Bowl Halftime shows have now passed me by. Like the Grammy Awards, they have become a generational thing. Nothing wrong with that. My parents didn't "get" The Beatles or the Rolling Stones either. It happens. Time marches.
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I also didn't pay much attention to the commercials this year either. The only ones that stick with me are (1) the Bruce Springsteen spot for Jeep, and (2) the Michael B. Jordan as Alexa spot.
That's it. That's the list.
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