No Party at Leinart's

Thoughts:

1a. The last play should have absolutely been reviewed, 100% absopositively. There is no way anyone can possibly say it shouldn't have. Whether it would have been overturned or not is irrelevant, is should have been officially reviewed (My guess is 60% the play would have been overturned). They review easier calls in the last two minutes of the first half of a meaningless Raiders-Chiefs game in October, but not in the last 5 seconds of one of the biggest games of all-time. How does this happen?

1b. There should have been an automatic 15-yard excessive celebration on Holmes after his last touchdown. Automatic. They call this every time. I feel this is a stupid penalty but he clearly used the ball as a prop when he imitated Lebron James (pretty dank celebration though). They always call this. How is this not flagged?

1c. Tack on those 15 yards with another possible 15 yards from the unsportsmanlike conduct penalty after the Warner "fumble," and suddenly we're on their 35 with one more throw. And Fitzgerald has the best hands and body control anyone has seen in years, making him a perfect target for a hail mary.

2. That being said, we lost, the ref's didn't hurt us. We hurt ourselves. Every single flag thrown against us was warranted. The Cardinals just didn't deserve to be on the same field as the Steelers for the first 3 quarters. They put themselves in a position to lose at the end because of what they did the first 3 quarters. If Harrison fell one yard short on that interception return, maybe the game would be different. If anything about the Roethlisberger/Holmes TD was even one centimeter off, maybe the game would be different. Either way, the Cardinals have no excuses.

3. The Fitzgerald touchdown was beautiful. I haven't felt such sports euphoria since Gonzo's bat-breaking single in 2001 or Arizona-Kentucky in 1997. No matter what fan you are, it was hard not to enjoy Fitzgerald breaking the coverage over the middle and running away for the go-ahead touchdown. As Bill Simmon's said today of the play,"If a great sports moment happens, you just have to put your personal interests aside and appreciate that moment for what it is." This moment made it all worthwhile.

4. The wierdest moment of the night did not come when they showed Cuba Gooding Jr. in the stands (couldn't he have looked into the camera and said "You are hanging on by a very thin thread and I dig that about you!" Also, has anyone's career tanked worse than Cuba Gooding Jr.? He won an oscar with Jerry Maguire, played a prominent role in the fantastic As Good As It Gets, then all of a sudden the best gig he can get is the lead in the sequel to Daddy Day Care, which is the equivalent of someone making a flipbook out of their own poop. Most of his movies are now direct-to-DVD.



They should just give up on him and remake Hanging With Mr. Cooper to give his brother Omar another shot.), it came right after Fitz's brilliance late in the 4th quarter. As my mom so eloquently put it:

"another exciting piece of news, but insane..........

during the superbowl (you have may already heard on the news)................after the 2nd to last touchdown..............the program was interrupted (NOT a commercial)............disgusting porno came on our tv......we were mortified.............it was male nudity and a horrible act between the man and woman............all the kids watching this............it was on earlier here...............HELP!! the cable company is inundated with calls .........you can't get thru..........but they said on the news ............it was obviously a hacker........playing a porno channel..........unbelievable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Porn Prank in Tucson

Aside from the fact that my mom seems to be writing while attached to a respirator, thank god my 10-year old sister wasn't watching. Now she can obtain her sex education the right way, through Saturday morning teen sitcoms.



5. The offer is still on the table for the person who guesses how many times I have played solitaire on my cell phone. I will write a poem about the person with the closest guess. Email guesses to dstein999@gmail.com