Super Bowl Thoughts, A Bobby Knight Favorite, & Don't Always Believe Everything You Hear on ESPN

Here are my thoughts after watching the Super Bowl Sunday night:

• It is not always the best team that wins the Super Bowl, but the team that is playing the best. The Giants were at times a good team and at times an average team this year, but caught fire at the right time and took advantage of the opportunities they had. They deserved to win the title because they did it on the field when it mattered most.
• New England was the team that clearly was the best thoughout the season, however did not have what it took to complete their 19-game sweep when it mattered the most. They were dominant in their first 11 or 12 games and then looked shaky the last quarter of the regular season and certainly less than fantatstic in the playoffs. Would a loss to the Eagles or the Ravens or somebody in the regular season taken the pressure off and let them play better and with less of a burden for the remainder of the year? We will never know.
• Nobody is talking about the fact the the Patriots dropeed three, yes, three, interceptions on the Giants' decisive drive. Rodney Harrison dropped one. Asante Samuel, self proclaimed best cornerback in the NFL, dropped one, and Brandon Merriweather dropped one (although his would have been a really nice over the shoulder catch). Make any of these three plays and the legend of Tom Brady continues to grow.
• If I had a vote, David Tyree was the MVP of the game. I know he did not do much throughout th egame, but really did anyone on the Giants offense do much throughout the game. When it counted, they could not have won the game without Tyree. Not sure you could factually say that about any other single player.
• Personally, I was happy to see the Pats lose, because they are an arrogant bunch of chumps. Oh, and cheaters. I was most happy to see Junior Seau not win a Super owl ring. His entire career has been amazingly over-rated.
• It does not seem like Eli's teammates have a lot of love for him. When you are the QB and lead your team to a victory, people are supposed to swarm you. It seemed like the players did not have a lot of interest in finding Eli to hug and high five. If it were reversed, players would have swarmed Tom Bardy, who seems to have the ultimate respect of his teammates (probably most of whom are hoping Giselle will fix them up and they can have a double date, but I digress).
• Tom Coughlin's face recovered nicely from the frostbite he had in Green Bay.
• The Giants winning the table gives hope to lots of teams in the NFL. During the regular season they were probably about the 8th or 9th best team in teh league. But they played well enough to get in the tournament, and then turned it on. There are lots of teams good enough to be in the top 8 or 9. They just need to get hot at the right time. And the Giants did. And they earned the title. Congrats to the Boys in Blue.

An oldie but a goodie on the day after Bob Knight resined (see post below for more on Knight). Remember when someone snuck a tape recorder into teh locker room and recorded his blasting his team? Well, here it is for your enjoyment.

ESPN is so powerful people just believe everything they say (or lecture on). Here is an example of how one of their main premises may be flawed this season. Click here to see Al Featherston's analaysis that suggests maybe the Pac 10 is not all that. Always take ESPN with a grain of salt...