Super Bowl post from the lounge -- It belongs here in GD!

[Bozita]

It was posted in the "lounge" but I believe it is worthy of a wider audience. Let me know if I'm wrong.


Forum Name The DU Lounge
Topic subject I NEVER watch Superbowls, hate sports, but I DID watch this one...
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4701706#4701818
4701818, I NEVER watch Superbowls, hate sports, but I DID watch this one...
Posted by zann725 on Mon Feb-06-06 12:24 AM

and cheered all the way...for a hometown team (whose town...AND team) had a recent rough 20 years. I watched not because I care about sports, but because I care about underdogs, and the pasion of winning against odds...which is part of what being a Dem is (I thought) all about.

And much as I like Seattle, this game was more than a sports game....but a "match" of yuppies vs. street smarts...and good times vs. "bad" for a VERY long time. And the desire to win. to "make up" for all else that is failing in immediate neighborhoods and worlds.

The Steelers (from a town that produces little steel any more) playing in a Stadium named "Ford", in a town poverty and ghetto-ridden...no longer the car-making capital of the world. Yet producing a stunning, "winning" Superbowl for the underdogs...an American dream come true.

Sorry to all of you, to whom it was just a half-time blimp, or a tongue-shaped stage show. For FORTUNATELY it was FAR much more.

[Syrinx]

1. but the Steelers were favored by four and a half

[springhill]

2. Yes.........

Seattle was the underdog in this game by almost everyones account. Don't understand your post in political terms either. Seattle is made up of yuppies? Is that your point?

[CrazyForKucinich]

4. And had the refs in their back pocket

Really, penalties need to be challengable...that holding call was BS which would have put Seattle at the 1 yard line. Next play, interception. BS.

I think football is the greatest game America has but I don't even know if I can watch it anymore with so many bad calls and no chance to review them.

[Kierkegaard]

6. I may change my mind come pre-season, but

at this point, I've sworn off wasting any more of my time watching the NFL. I'm totally f***ing pissed at the way this SB was officiated. Not to mention how much inter-commercial time the Steelers got. What's up with that? Sure made it look like the NFL had a favorite!

[insanity]

9. GRR

I love football, and I love my Hawks but they was robbed today. I think the metaphor is the team with the better gameplan (message) loses because the refs (voters) are blind.

[spuddonna]

10. You have GOT to be kidding me...

The refs in Pittsburgh's pocket? Then you obviously didn't see the officiating against them in the past two games they played...

[insanity]

11. The officiating is horable

The NFL seems to try and reward the teams that will give them the biggest ratings boost. Pitt. got screwed, New England got screwed, Seattle got screwed, Denver got screwed, and the list goes on.

[spuddonna]

12. Well, yeah I agree with that! lol

The officials this year acted like they were stoned on the field...

But I guess I am just gettin tired of hearing that Pittsburgh 'bought the refs' or the 'fix' was in... Come on... They worked their asses off! They beat the 1st, 2nd and 3rd seated teams to get to the Superbowl. And if you saw any of those games, you know that the calls were decidedly NOT in the Steelers favor...

[insanity]

13. Yes, but...

The refs should try and stay out of the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP as much as possible... let the players play and the fans enjoy it. Props to Pittsburgh for getting so far, but I feel like this was one of the worst SBs ever because of the refs.

[RoyGBiv]

7. Yeah ...

I'm missing the whole "underdog" angle since the Steelers were supposed to win.

I think (and this is just an observation, not a criticism) that Steelers fans see themselves as the underdog because of the recent history of their city, and they project this self-identification upon their sports teams.

[Syrinx]

8. I was rooting for the real 'dogs tonight, the Seahawks

But only because of my man Shaun Alexander. (He's a good guy.)

I guess the original-original post made a good point of sorts, but the whole "underdog" thing confused my easily-confused brain. ;)

ON SECOND THOUGHT: Nah, it didn't really make a good point at all.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. There's a lot of posts in GD that should be in the Lounge ...............

:popcorn:

[obxhead]

5. sshhhh.....

[Bozita]

14. I'm viewing this from a lunchbucket angle - THIS really got me!

"The Steelers (from a town that produces little steel any more) playing in a Stadium named "Ford", in a town poverty and ghetto-ridden...no longer the car-making capital of the world. Yet producing a stunning, "winning" Superbowl for the underdogs...an American dream come true."

[theHandpuppet]

15. Yeah, and after watching Bettis and Swann...

... the lunchbucket boys for the GOP make their appearances for Pittsburgh (one in the game, the other for his MVP performance) I'd say the better comparison would be Pittsburgh, the Bush cheerleading team of guys who've apparently forgotten where they came from vs that team from the progressive city of Seattle.

And I hate to break it to you... but Pittsburgh was favored by several points in this game. Now we can all lay odds on whether Jerome "Mr. Detroit" Bettis will be stumping for Swann's gubernatorial campaign so they can convince blue collar Amerikka that the neocon plan will solve the war on poverty and revitalize ironbelt cities like Detroit, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Place yer bets, folks!

[hellbound-liberal]

16. The officiating in this game sucked!

as well as the coverage of the officiating. Why was Al Michaels so quick to try to make the case that the referree looked like he was about to call Roethlisburger down before he reached the goal line but then he changed his mind and signalled a touchdown? I saw no such thing. My father-in-law constantly tells me that Al Michaels is considered the best announcer in the game by his peers on a regular basis. I don't know where he gets his information but, whenever you can tell that the announcers favor a certain team by the sound of excitement rising in their voice(I have to endure Redskins coverage every week), as far as I am concerned, they are not doing their job? In my opinion, Al Michaels is one of the sorriest announcers in the game, right down there with Brent Musburger and the former crew from ESPN on Sunday nights.

[GeorgeGist]

17. How pathetic