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Finding Mudville: Everything’s amazing
Published Tuesday, February 07, 2012 11:22 AM
By Dan Brown
Berkeley Independent

It’s almost getting too unbelievable for anybody’s good these days. How fantastic an ending do you need, anyway?

You have another awesome catch by the Giants’ Mario Manningham to set up a go ahead touchdown, and then New England almost comes back with a miracle catch to win the game and I wouldn’t have been the least bit surprised if they had done it.

Everything’s amazing. Super amazing, in fact.

Super spectacular amazing, and even those superlatives fail to capture the true super-amazingness of the Super Bowl.

You can’t just have a good football game anymore, it has to blow your socks off, and I sit here barefoot and with cold feet. Again.

And I’m yawning.

So, Super Bowl XLVI is officially in the books and football season is now officially done for another eight months. We get to put the whole Sunday morning NFL pre-game crews to bed until next August and start counting down to the start of spring training.

All that’s left to do is talk about the game for the next month. I wasn’t impressed because nothing impresses me anymore. I’ve seen it all.

I’ve watched football games in places where guys show up wearing blocks of cheese for hats. I read blogs that insist the Pittsburgh Steelers are still the best football team in the NFL, despite their first round exit courtesy of Tim Tebow.

I don’t get the stubborn logic.

I saw grown men wearing the Steelers black and yellow wish, stand and cuss at a television set as Tebow threw the touchdown pass that knocked Pittsburgh out of the playoffs in overtime.

I’ve seen super amazing catches that defied description and I’m a guy who is supposed to earn his living being descriptive. I’m out of words. I quit at “Super Amazing.”

Everything was the best ever in Indianapolis on Sunday.

Best ever halftime show. Best ever commercials. Best ever Super Bowl.

I saw a safety on the Patriots’ first offensive play of the game because Tom Brady threw a pass too far.  

Super Amazing.

I saw a game-winning touchdown nobody wanted to score.

This was like the Hack-a-Shaq of touchdowns.

New England was content to let Ahmad Bradshaw score a touchdown with 57 seconds left because Tom Brady with the ball and 57 seconds left to score a touchdown is better than Tom Brady with the ball and just 20 or so seconds left to kick a field goal.

Bradshaw tried to go against instinct and fall down at the one-yard line, but couldn’t.

Now when you ask the question who the best Manning is, you have to take Eli over Peyton.

My senses are numb. I’ve been super amazed to death.

So what’s next?

March Madness, that’s what.

A fitting follow-up seeing how this whole spectacle that used to be just a football game drove me crazy to start with.

I don’t even know how to end this piece because I lack the vocabulary to adequately describe what I just saw. I saw Madonna perform a halftime show and get paid a kajillion dollars NOT to sing.

Now that’s super amazing.


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