Several plays could qualify as key:fumble at midfield,Steelers passing on 3rd&2 and failing after they had Packers on their heels running the ball, but I agree that was a laser shot so will agree. I did my chores at halftime so missed the pea soup. Looking forward to seeing the Pack back in SB XLVI...hope there's a season.

For an artificial surface field, it was atrocious and seemingly hard as there seemed to be an abnormal amount of hitting the turf injuries.

As for officiating, you obviously didn't take in the TU/Houston game on Saturday afternoon where it was clear the spray on tan ref was there to be in the limelight. When the other refs on the crew start shaking their heads in amazement that the call(s) you just made were that bad, its time to hang up the whistle. It went both ways too...the offensive push off call against the Houston guard was so terrible, that even TU fans (while thankful it was made) asked each other what or why it was called. The atrociousness of the call was confirmed on replay.

Justin Hurtt is really freaking good.

M&M Fiat add you mean? How many bottles of wine does it take to make a Chrysler/Fiat?

Picker, there won't be a strike. The owners are planning on a lock-out. The party line is that they have spent umpteen kazillions on new stadiums and the players should absorb the cost, although not a single player was consulted on the necessity of building a single stadium.

ig: there you go, let's consult a bunch of meathead football players, most of whom dont even have their degrees, on huge business decisions like building stadiums. These chump players owe all their millions to the owners, period. If the NFL ends tomorrow, the owners will continue to play golf at Augusta Ntl and travel in their own jets...the players will be luggin the owners' luggage onto that private jet and watchin it takeoff as they head to the breakroom for a bag of doritos. The players need to cool it.

Players “choose’ to play a game, owners organize the cattle that best suits their own team. Players feel they are not being treated fairly? Long term injury consequences for the players? The can quit anytime, but do they want to run out on an avg. 1.2 million yrly salary?
Plus teams treat players like royalty, the best in athletic training, equipment, medical care, food, travel, and assorted amenities including endorsements and public goodwill. Its all given to them for the privilege to play on Sunday’s.

What would happen IF the Super Bowl went back to marching bands @ half time & some military personal playing a bugle for the nat’l anthem?

Every play is magnified in the Super Bowl. Big Ben took a beating & obviously was rushed & out of sync on Pitts last possession.

Snicker is right, GB had several 2nd team players playing key roles. What happens when GB starters are back? Could GB be the first NFC team to repeat or least go to back to back Super Bowls since, well, when GB did it back in the 90’s.

Laffalot, ignore my dumbness. I didn't read your post right. Green Bay is the last to go to repeat Super Bowels... sorry

The Big 12 refs are really getting out of hand. Their power trips are making it almost unbearable to watch these games.

That Bedlam game was close and should have been exciting but neither team could build momentum due to a whistle being blown every two seconds.

How can officiating be so blatantly different from conference to conference? If UConn and Georgetown were the teams that played in Stillwater that day, would there have been enough players left to finish the game?

As far as the Superbowl goes, the game was great...everything else, pretty bad to awful. I was actually pretty excited to see Christina Aguilera sing the national anthem because she does have some pipes. Unfortunately, she decided to fill all the lyrics she forgot with "ooOOoooAAAooaaaOOOOooooAAAA.....etc."

Bill O'Reilly was not respectful. He must of interrupted the president at least 20 times. Worst interview I can remember. Bill O'Reilly should have a conversation with Chris Matthews It would sound like howler monkeys.

Two seconds into the 'National Anthem' and I was gone, didn't watch the Blackeyes take a 'P' either. So much hype, so little substance. They make such a big deal of honoring servicemen and women why don't they have a group from one of the service branches do th National Anthem? The Singing Sergeants, the Navy Blue Jacket Choir, the West Point or Naval Academy Choir? Anything but the trash that people with no talent try to sing the National Anthem.

Leslie Neilson did a better job singing the National Anthem as the tenor in the Naked Gun movie. As far as an owner lockout, strike, whatever, these players make millions a year and only have to spend their own money while out of training camp. Jeez, you'd think they were school teachers working only 9 months out of the year. How the hell do these idiots go broke after retirement? What? are they all punch drunk like Mike Tyson???

"Should the singers fly their own interpretation of the flag too?"

Easy Rogerq, you're about to make a lot of Sooner fans upset.