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Obligatory Super Bowl Blog Entry, Part 43
Feb
2
2009
Like many other people I know, I was hoping that the Cardinals would win but expecting that the Steelers would win. I was not cheering against Pittsburgh, as I have nothing against them. But I did want Kurt Warner to win. So I cheered for Arizona but was not depressed when they didn’t win. Disappointed, yes, but not so much that I had trouble sleeping.
I find that with college football, I cheer for (or against) teams because they are those teams. For the NFL, I cheer for or against teams based on certain players. If Kurt Warner were not with Arizona, I don’t know that I would have been cheering for them.
My take on the game, not that my take matters much (and why is it called a take when really I am giving my opinion? I am not taking anything…) is that the Steelers didn’t win the game as much as the Cardinals lost it.
Certainly, the Steelers played well enough to win, and win they did. The Cardinals also played well enough to win, but they helped the Steelers a lot whereas the Steelers didn’t help the Cardinals much. The Cardinals made so many mistakes that’s it is easy to think that they should have won. The infamous “They were the better team.” They were the better team, but they didn’t play as well. It all matter how you play during that one game. Of course, after a game is over you can always say “If this had gone differently” or “If this hadn’t happened” and anyone can concoct a scenario where the loser would have won.
How many yards did the Steelers get as a result of Cardinal personal fouls? Is it legal for an offensive lineman to pull his own quarterback into the end zone? Did they really let a linebacker run 100 yards? Could nobody catch him before the 2-yard line? Is it possible for Clark to use his limbs to tackle someone instead of using only his helmet?
I was just glad that the Cardinals played well enough to almost win. It wasn’t looking too good at the half, and I was worried that Arizona would be lumped into the same category as Oklahoma and Ohio State – the team that gets put through to the championship game and then gets blown out by a real team.
“{A man of} great anger will bear the penalty, For if you rescue {him,} you will only have to do it again.”
– Proverbs 19:19
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 5:15 pm and has been carefully placed in the Sports category.
