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Personal Fouls
Published: 2/4/2013 3:43 PM
Last Modified: 2/4/2013 3:43 PM

Somebody emailed and said one of the regulars was giving us trouble on the Granny, Grumpy and Goofy morning sports talk show on local radio.

Thank heavens that show and most others like it have a rating of 0.

We had San Francisco.

The refs robbed us.

The refs didn't swallow their whistles. The refs ate the rule book. A player could have been arrested and not gotten a penalty. There was routine holding, rampant shoving, consistent fighting, frequent late-hitting, and an off-sides violation that went unresolved even though the offender was almost behind the quarterback when he caught the ball.

The officiating wasn't bad. It was horrendous. It bore no relation to regular-season refereeing when teams routinely picked up 100 yards of penalties without really trying. At the Super Bowl, the two meanest teams in the NFL picked up a total of 53 yards in penalties!

SF played lousy. The play calling was a joke. The defense was incompetent. The best runner was caught from behind at the seven-yard line with the game on the line! The SF quarterback was good. Analyst Cowher said he should have been replaced at the half. Analyst Cowher should be replaced now.

Baltimore had better nerves.

So what was the worst of Super Bowl Sunday, the rotten officiating, the idiotic commercials, or the CBS announcing?

The commercials were almost universally hideous. The Coke commercial made less than no sense. The horse commercial was a rerun and was all right. Paul Harvey, who is dead, was best.

The worst of Super Bowl Sunday was Phil Simms.

For years on end, we have been begging for him to be transferred to field hockey or senior golf, to a place where his non-stop whining could drift aimlessly into the atmosphere.

Sunday, Simms combined incoherence with constant chatter to receive some of the worst reviews in Super Bowl history, even worse than that pretty girl kissing the nerd in that pitiful commercial. The New York Times called Simms "Out of sorts." Even OKC hoop star Kevin Durant begged Simms to please be quiet.

So we were 1-1.

Robbed by the refs, vindicated by CBS's rotten performance.

And Ray Lewis was right. The Lord did pick the Ravens. It's the only way they could have won the game.




Reader Comments 4 Total
JCD1978 (last week)
Best part of the blackout was not having to hear Nantz and Simms for an extra 34 minutes of drivel.

The officiating was terrible for both teams the entire game so hard to feel bad about the last no-call.
Blue Max (last week)
When you're picked to win by the Lord, it's hard to lose. When you're picked by the Picker, well...
hootie (last week)
Did the Lord also pick Rey's for diferent baby mama's or for a person to get murdered?!?!? Time to go out to the pasture, Rey!
The Picker (last week)
Very funny Max.
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