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Thank You NFL!

Godfrey Logan Written by Godfrey Logan, Monday February 06 2012
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Thank you NFL for one hell of a season! With the threat of not having a football season Super Bowl XLVI was about the best way for the league to acquit itself with the fans. I’m looking for the same kind of a finish from the NBA.

Other than the overhyping of Tim Tebow and yet the football Gods resoundingly putting that to rest. Personally I wanted the ‘Niners in the championship game but once the ball was kicked off it didn’t matter anymore. They’ll probably build a statue to Tom Coughlin in New York City what with all of the threats to fire the man. He takes a 9-7 team to the Super Bowl and defeats the Patriots. Again. The first nine win team in NFL history to win a Super Bowl. It’s like watching the Yankees get beat. The Patriots are an easy team to dislike. Like the Yankees the Patriots have the best of everything. The best head coach. The best quarterback. The best front office. The best ownership.

Who can say which game was the more compelling, this one or the 2008 version? In Super Bowl XLII the Patriots were playing for a perfect season. To best the ’72 Dolphins and all that. Even then they had the league’s best offense and an air of inevitability. The best head coach and the best quarterback. Attempting to become the best team of all time. Again the underdogs peaking at the right time. Healthy at the right time. And again a catch worthy of remembering for many seasons, the thirty eight yard catch by Mario Manningham in the fourth quarter. The longest play of the game.

A fact that cannot be avoided is that the game took place in Indianapolis where the elder of the Manning brother’s plays though he was absent from football due to his neck injury. There is some question as to whether or not Peyton will be in Indianapolis or even in the league next season. They have a common enemy in the New England Patriots.

In the beginning of the game the favored Patriots didn’t play like it running just one play on their first drive resulting in a safety. The Giants dominated the first half playing more confidence than the Patriots and more like the favorites yet they were behind at the half. Only by a point. There was plenty of talk about which quarterback would be the best in the pressure of a close game when they weren’t talking about Chase Blackburn who had been cut by the Giants and re-signed and had been a school teacher at one point in the season. New England decided to join the party at the end of the first half with a string of completions by Tom Brady that continued into the second half and culminated in touchdowns. Completing sixteen consecutive passes and looking like they were going to run away with the game.

New England was buoyed by their emotions with the loss of the wife of owner Bob Kraft in 2011. They wear her initials on their jerseys.

                The least the NFL could do is put on one hell of a spectacle considering every dollar made in Indianapolis went to the league.  Every aspect of the operation was controlled by the league save for anything that happened in the city proper outside of Lucas Oil Stadium. The Colts earn at least a million dollars in revenue from every home game played during the season. The luxury boxes are controlled as well by the NFL. The advertisement and events surrounding the Super Bowl are all directed by the league. Fair enough that they should recoup the costs of putting on the game it is intended to be a boon for the city which the game is held. The commissioner in a press conference spoke of the possibility of Chicago hosting a Super Bowl which would be grand only if the city doesn’t have to hustle for every dollar by jacking up the price of accommodations and goods outside of the venue itself.

                And the commercials were especially memorable this year. The rescue dog in the Bud Light commercial. I eschewed the half time show which meant I would be awake for the start of the second half. I was tired of Madonna after “A League Of Their Own” the best role of her career. Eli Manning will most likely have a statue next to Tom Coughlin in NYC and the debate will start over who means more to the city Manning or Jeter or Babe Ruth? Which team’s championships will mean more the Giants or the Yankees? And most of all will the Giants become the most hated?


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