Showing posts with label Super Bowl XLIII. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Super Bowl XLIII. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

In El Salvador, James Harrison stepped out of bounds, Santonio Holmes dropped the ball and Kurt Warner never fumbled

For all people know in El Salvador, the Arizona Cardinals are Super Bowl XLIII champs. A nation rejoices! Central America LOVES the underdog!
Two sets of Super Bowl Champion gears were printed, but only one team could claim the champion title and wear the victory t-shirts and hats after Sunday’s game.

Through a partnership between World Vision and the National Football League, hundreds of poor children and families in the Central American nation of El Salvador will be the happy recipients of Reebok produced t-shirts, hats, and McArthur Towel & Sports produced trophy towels that wrongly hailed the Arizona Cardinals the Super Bowl champion.

This is one of our favorite Super-Bowl-related-but-has-nothing-to-do-with-actual-football stories that happens every year. It's great to help out the less fortunate, give children new clothes, happy feel-good peace charity harmony blah blah blah.

Yet in El Salvador, many people might truly believe that Arizona won the Super Bowl. It's probably a good thing then that they didn't make those "Bush Didn't Suck" t-shirts.

[The Christian Post]. (What the fuck is The Christian Post? It must be owned and operated by Brenda Warner).

Monday, February 02, 2009

Does second Super Bowl win put Big Ben among top 10 QBs of all time?

If rings are the true indicator of success, then yes, yes it does. With yesterday's Super Bowl win -- his second in four years -- Roethlisberger became one of only 10 quarterbacks to win two or more Super Bowls as a starter. Pretty remarkable since he's only 26.

Though unlike those others on the list -- all Hall of Fame-caliber QBs -- Big Ben seems more like a product of a good team than a good quarterback. His greatest strength may be that he doesn't lose games, not that he wins them. Insert any number of gunslingers into the Steelers' QB position and he too could have two championships. Roethlisberger certainly wasn't the reason Pittsburgh won the extra large Super Bowl over Seattle; his 22.6 passer rating is the worst ever for a victor. And while he was solid yesterday -- exceptional, even, during the last drive -- he wasn't the difference maker; take away Harrison's return (push him OUT OF BOUNDS!) and Arizona wins the game.

But Manning and Favre don't have two rings. Marino doesn't have any. And the guy he just beat has only one. So does Big Ben's second put him ahead of those guys on the all-time best list? Championship success vs. an extraordinary command of the game. Which matters more?

Your arguments, please.