not so much. Al and Chris were about to put me to sleep. Al Michaels needs to stick to baseball and the occasional Hockey gold medal match. ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Then again I didn’t have a chicken in the fight. I pulled for the Giants but really didn’t care all that much. Anyone else feel the same?
I will admit to preferring Gruden, Jaworski and Trico but over all thought Michaels and Collinsworth did a fair minded job of calling the game with no apparent bias. Chucky Gruden adds a certain level of “pepper” to the action and with Jaworski the knowledge level is probably a little deeper than the NBC crew. The sideline reporter for NBC needs a upgrade, I would honestly prefer a former player or coach down there.
My teams favored for an appearance in the Super Bowl were; Seattle, Geenbay, New Orleans, San Francisco & Denver. In that order. So it didn’t matter much to me who won. So my best memory of the nights entertainment was; at least Madonna’s halftime performance was better than Janet Jackson’s. And that ain’t sayin’ much. I’m from the old high top leather shoes era of the game, so today’s sport isn’t even football to me. It’s all Hollywood and high finance. It all appears to me to be about “Look at Me” and not about “Team.” What ever happened to the days when if you made a touchdown, you just drop the ball in the endzone or handed it to the ref. Today it’s more about dancing around the endzone like a chicken with pinched body parts. Not a rant, just how I feel.
All good points Lotech.
My mind want to credit Bear Bryant for telling his players “Act like you been there.” Billy “White Shoes” Johnson started the “dancing” but the only dancing I want to see at a football game involves the young ladies on the sidelines or a receiver tiptoeing along the sideline. There is one rookie in 2011 who I found particularly irritating with his “Superman” act. I was lucky enough to be on a high school team that went 27-2-1 the 3 years I was in high school, no one was treated like a star, we were good because everyone knew and executed their role on every play, we were a team. Our coach would work us so hard the week before our easiest games we did not dare become over confident, the week before tough games were easy and focused on execution. Dancing in the end zone would have resulted in running laps the rest of our lives.
Gruden is too much of a cheerleader…
Collinsworth…When he does a packer game I mute it and listen to the radio.
Still mad at Ted Thompson for not signing some free agents on defense.
The team that beat the packers won the whole thing…was fitting.
Anyone except the Viqueens or Patcheaters.
All I have to say is “Man, let’s not play the Giants again!” I went to the first game at Schaefer, later Foxboro Stadium in 1971. They played the Giants then too. Lost too!!
AAARGGGH.
Mike
I’m rapidly becoming a fan of watching the game on TV, muted, and either listening to the radio announcers or listening to a very quite, peaceful game. It distracts fly-tying less when the sound is off. 
I’ve decided that, as a general trend, radio announcers and British actors are more professional than TV announcers and Hollywood.
Ed