Ted's happy w/ the Super Bowl

(Top: my son, Ted; Bottom: MVP, Santonio Holmes kissing the Vincent Lombardi trophy awarded to the champion Pittsburgh Steelers)

My post today is the same as it was last year. If you click onto February, 2008, you will see my article about the SUPER BOWL and the NY Giants beating the heavily favored New England Patriots. & you'll read about how Ted's 2nd favorite team, the New England Patriots lost and he cried and cried.

This year's Super Bowl was between Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. I wanted the Cardinals to win, b/c they hadn't won a championship since 1947 (the yr. my parents were married). With 2 minutes left to play and 80 yards to cover, my team, the Cardinals were up by 3 points. The Steelers marched right down the field as they knew that they could score on the Cardinals' defense. When they scored with a mere 40 seconds left, Ted was shouting, jumping up and down, jumping on the couch, absolutely jubilant. For the first time in the 3 yrs. he has watched the Super Bowl, his team finally won. He anxiously watched the last seconds of the game and the Steelers held on to win. He was so incredibly happy. Then he said something that really made me laugh, because it completely caught the moment of how he sincerely felt, "I wish the Super Bowl were everyday!!"

I went from wanting the AZ Cardinals to win to glad the Steelers won if only just to see my boy so absolutely gleeful.

he's human after all.......

The winning catch in the end zone in the last minute of the Super Bowl was made by none other than Plaxico Buress. You may recall that I called him a $%&(*&^% in one of my January posts. I didn't like Mr. Buress for awhile, and during the game, my son, Ted counted the number of times the Patriots defenders hit Buress hard.

Well, we know that he caught the pass easily, and Ted, my son, knowing that the game was over yelled "NOOOOOO!" and started keening and sobbing.

Then I saw something amazing in Plaxico Buress. Instead, of jumping around and gloating, jumping around and taunting the sidelines (as the jerk did against the Packers) this is what Plaxico Buress did: he knelt down & cried.

He didn't gloat when interviewed in the newspapers. He cried in the locker room too. So, seeing all this and reading it in the paper, I have changed my mind about Mr. Buress. He is human, after all. Then there's a more compelling reason:


one of the more important axioms in the Western World: it's hard to criticize success!!

Super Bowl not happy for Ted

Well another one of my son's favorite teams is the New England Patriots. ("They have the greatest QB, no QB had as good a season as Tom Brady had!!!!", he's fond of saying. )

Poor, poor Teddy, he didn't just cry, he howled. His favorite team scores a dramatic touch down that puts them ahead 14-10, with 2 or 3 minutes to go. Yet, the Giants pulled it out in even more dramatic fashion. They score a touchdown with less than 60 seconds left and win 17-14.

The Patriots coach made a terrible decision not to try and score 3 points in the last half of the game, and it cost them dearly. If the Patriots had gotten the 3 points, the game ends at 17-17 and they go into Overtime. But no, he messed up BADLY.

The Patriots did not protect the quarterback, Tom Brady. This picture shows Tom Brady (he has the blue uniform) getting hit by the champion N.Y. Giants (in white uniforms) and slammed into the ground. He was driven to the ground by the Giants 5 times during the game which is a lot of times for such a good team as the Patriots. THE PATRIOTS WENT INTO THE GAME 18 wins, 0 LOSSES. Yesterday, their first loss of the season denied them the championship!!