More Americans watched the Super Bowl than any TV broadcast in history. I figure then that so did you. Everyone knows that Green Bay beat Pittsburgh 31-25. Aaron Rodgers has now won as many Super Bowls as the legendary Brett Farve. He's also lost far fewer NFC Championship Games than Favre, including none where defeat was snatched from the jaws of the Super Bowl by boneheaded, mind-boggling mistakes. Time will now tell whether Rodgers can go the rest of his career without the Interception Filled Ghost Of Favre's Career looming over his shoulder.
Other than that, the brief recap:
Christina Aguilera botched the national anthem.
Commercials for Doritos and Pepsi Max
Aaron Rodgers drew first Super Bowl blood with a TD Pass.
Somewhere in here the male libido was assaulted by commercials with Joan Rivers and Roseanne Barr. The women got Thor and Captain America and collectively "ooooohed" throughout the land.
Ben Roethlesberger honored the memory of legendary Green Bay Quarterback Bret Favre in Green Bay's first post-Favre Super Bowl, by throwing a Classic Favre Pick 6. It was a lazy pop fly to left field, for a routine catch and recovery. Big Ben said his arm was hit as he threw. Maybe. Maybe not. But it sounded good, and somewhere out there Bret Favre nodded in approval. The game was officially over at that point, as no team that has ever returned an interception for a TD in a Super Bowl has ever lost the game.
At halftime the Black Eyed Peas brought us "Tron: The Musical". Background dancers wearing lit up US Postal Service mail crates on their heads showed us visions of The Mailman of the Future. Axl Rose broke another TV somewhere out in parts unknown as Slash played guitar for a Fergie cover of Sweet Child O' Mine.
In the second half Green Bay felt the pressure of a Super Bowl lead and apparently the mesmerizing aftereffects of the Halftime Hypno-Show, and went to sleep for a bit more than a quarter.
Clay Matthews forced a red zone Steelers' fumble though right when it looked like Pittsburgh was about to totally seize the momentum and never look back. They reawakened to score a lead extending TD.
The Packers then responded to a Roethlesberger TD with their defining drive, which burned clock and, while not culminating in a TD, provided a short field goal to extend the lead to 6.
The door was open for Pittsburgh but they couldn't convert on 4th down. After recent Super Bowls with the Santonio Holmes catch for Pittsburgh against Arizona, the Plaxico Burress catch against New England, as well as the Eli Manning-David Tyree miracle 4th down pass and catch, it almost came as a jolting shock to see Roethlesberger's final pass routinely knocked down by double coverage.
Aaron Rodgers was named the Super Bowl MVP. After the game, not having a cute little infant son nor having the foresight to borrow Drew Brees' son, Rodgers and the Pack celebrated by holding the WWE World Championship Title belt up high. The Big Gold Belt made an appearance and somewhere Ric Flair smiled and said "WOOOOOOOOOOOO".
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