Nothing Super about the Super Bowl...

[BigD_95]

This has to be the easiest and most unproven run to a Super Bowl title in NFL history.

Lets look at the hard rode the Steelers had to travel.

In their first game they played a 8-8 San Diego Chargers. Nothing else needs to be said.

The AFC championship they played the 11-5 Ravens. A team they beat twice that has a rookie QB and no offense.


Then we get to the Super Bowl. Where the Steelers will finally get to prove their greatness.

Never mind. They get the 9-7 Arizona Cardinals. A team that allowed 1 less pt (426) then they scored (427) in the regular season. A 9-7 team that got to play a home game in the NFC championship against the 6th seed playoff team. Tell me how that's "must see T.V".

Maybe Pitt is really a "Super" team. Maybe they are great team for the ages. Unfortunately they don't ( no fault to their own ) get to prove it. Not in today's water down NFL.

Keep your comments that it makes it more exciting ...that the teams are more even ... every team has a chance.


That's not what the NFL is or was meant to be. When you earned a Super Bowl victory you have to beat other great teams to even get there. Do you remember Dallas Cowboys having to beat Green Bay then the great 49ers before they even got to a Super Bowl. Or the 49ers victory over the Cowboys in the NFC Championship? Great teams playing each other to even make the Super Bowl? You could go back in history and look at the match ups of Super Bowl winning teams and their road to that victory and say they had to earn it.

Well, that's no more the case. Its a water down league and a water down product. Make believe great teams pumped up by a kool aid drinking media.

Well you can call it a Super Bowl game yesterday but I call it two average teams that had a couple of breaks that helped them fall into a a game called the Super Bowl.

The NFL can keep their Super Bowl of average teams in a average league. I might watch and I might not. Last night I watched some of the first half then in the first time in my life that I can remember, I turned the Super Bowl off and played PS3, Call of Duty. A much better product. Maybe after 2010 when the salary cap goes away the NFL will come back and we will once again get to watch Super teams play in the Super Bowl.

TRS

 

[bigE79]

This has to be the easiest and most unproven run to a Super Bowl title in NFL history.

Lets look at the hard rode the Steelers had to travel.

In their first game they played a 8-8 San Diego Chargers. Nothing else needs to be said.

The AFC championship they played the 11-5 Ravens. A team they beat twice that has a rookie QB and no offense.


Then we get to the Super Bowl. Where the Steelers will finally get to prove their greatness.

Never mind. They get the 9-7 Arizona Cardinals. A team that allowed 1 less pt (426) then they scored (427) in the regular season. A 9-7 team that got to play a home game in the NFC championship against the 6th seed playoff team. Tell me how that's "must see T.V".

Maybe Pitt is really a "Super" team. Maybe they are great team for the ages. Unfortunately they don't ( no fault to their own ) get to prove it. Not in today's water down NFL.

Keep your comments that it makes it more exciting ...that the teams are more even ... every team has a chance.


That's not what the NFL is or was meant to be. When you earned a Super Bowl victory you have to beat other great teams to even get there. Do you remember Dallas Cowboys having to beat Green Bay then the great 49ers before they even got to a Super Bowl. Or the 49ers victory over the Cowboys in the NFC Championship? Great teams playing each other to even make the Super Bowl? You could go back in history and look at the match ups of Super Bowl winning teams and their road to that victory and say they had to earn it.

Well, that's no more the case. Its a water down league and a water down product. Make believe great teams pumped up by a kool aid drinking media.

Well you can call it a Super Bowl game yesterday but I call it two average teams that had a couple of breaks that helped them fall into a a game called the Super Bowl.

The NFL can keep their Super Bowl of average teams in a average league. I might watch and I might not. Last night I watched some of the first half then in the first time in my life that I can remember, I turned the Super Bowl off and played PS3, Call of Duty. A much better product. Maybe after 2010 when the salary cap goes away the NFL will come back and we will once again get to watch Super teams play in the Super Bowl.

TRS

Have they announced the tv ratings yet?

 

[WV Cowboy]

This has to be the easiest and most unproven run to a Super Bowl title in NFL history.

Lets look at the hard rode the Steelers had to travel.

If it was so easy, why didn't Dallas do it, .. why didn't the other 31 teams do it?

Call it what you like, but 32 teams all started out in August on level ground, one made it to the top.

As mush as I hate the steelers, they did it.

Whether fans like yourself approve or not, they now have 6 Super Bowl trophies for all of history to see.

 

[mldardy]

Have they announced the tv ratings yet?

Updated: February 2, 2009, 12:03 PM ET
Super Bowl ratings drop from '08 peak

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NEW YORK -- Preliminary Nielsen Media Research ratings show the Super Bowl's audience was likely down from last year's peak, but about on par with the 2007 and 2006 games.

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The Steelers defeat the Cardinals 27-23 in one of the most memorable Super Bowls ever.


The Pittsburgh Steelers-Arizona Cardinals game on NBC recorded a 42.1 rating and 65 share in Nielsen's overnight measurement of the nation's top cities. The same measurement for last year's New York Giants-New England Patriots game, which was the most-watched Super Bowl ever, was 44.7.
The 2007 preliminary rating was identical to this year's, and the 2006 game was 42.2, Nielsen said. Each rating point represents 1,145,000 households. The share means 65 percent of the televisions turned on during the game were tuned to the game.
A viewership estimate was not immediately available, but will likely be about 90 million.

 

[maxsports]

The bottom line is the Steelers won in todays NFL. That is all they are asked to do. Win against the opponents they have to play. That doesn't taint their 6th ring or make it any less important

 

[BigD_95]

If it was so easy, why didn't Dallas do it, .. why didn't the other 31 teams do it?

Call it what you like, but 32 teams all started out in August on level ground, one made it to the top.

As mush as I hate the steelers, they did it.

Whether fans like yourself approve or not, they now have 6 Super Bowl trophies for all of history to see.

yea and so what? Someone has to win. You can take 32 teams of 60 year old players and 2 teams will still come out on top. Thats not my point. The NFL stinks now.

I couldnt care if Pitt won 4 in a row if they earned it and played other great teams to win. 9-7 & 8-8 teams dont cut it for me.

 

[bigE79]

Updated: February 2, 2009, 12:03 PM ET
Super Bowl ratings drop from '08 peak

Comment Email Print
Associated Press


NEW YORK -- Preliminary Nielsen Media Research ratings show the Super Bowl's audience was likely down from last year's peak, but about on par with the 2007 and 2006 games.

NFL.com Video
The Steelers defeat the Cardinals 27-23 in one of the most memorable Super Bowls ever.


The Pittsburgh Steelers-Arizona Cardinals game on NBC recorded a 42.1 rating and 65 share in Nielsen's overnight measurement of the nation's top cities. The same measurement for last year's New York Giants-New England Patriots game, which was the most-watched Super Bowl ever, was 44.7.
The 2007 preliminary rating was identical to this year's, and the 2006 game was 42.2, Nielsen said. Each rating point represents 1,145,000 households. The share means 65 percent of the televisions turned on during the game were tuned to the game.
A viewership estimate was not immediately available, but will likely be about 90 million.

thanks

 

[WV Cowboy]

yea and so what? Someone has to win. You can take 32 teams of 60 year old players and 2 teams will still come out on top. Thats not my point. The NFL stinks now.

I couldnt care if Pitt won 4 in a row if they earned it and played other great teams to win. 9-7 & 8-8 teams dont cut it for me.

It's all relative.

Every team starts the same and plays by the same rules.

Like I said, if it is so easy, Dallas should be ashamed.

Oh wait, they are.

 

[Hoofbite]

Im so sick of people saying the playoffs suck, superbowl sucks, this sucks and that sucks just because Dallas isn't there.

Get over yourselves already.

 

[masomenos]

The Super Bowl was a good, entertaining game and that is all that I ask for when Dallas isn't involved.

 

[BigD_95]

It's all relative.

Every team starts the same and plays by the same rules.

Like I said, if it is so easy, Dallas should be ashamed.

Oh wait, they are.

I think your missing the point. The NFL as a whole is a watered down league. I want a better product and I want a real champion that earns their way. Pitt had a easy road. Again this in NOT THEIR FAULT. But when looking at the historical aspect which I do. It was a easy road to a Super Bowl victory

 

[Future]

Im so sick of people saying the playoffs suck, superbowl sucks, this sucks and that sucks just because Dallas isn't there.

Get over yourselves already.

This season the playoffs were bad, and it had nothing to do with the Cowboys. The OP is pretty much right.

 

[DallasEast]

The bottom line is the Steelers won in todays NFL. That is all they are asked to do. Win against the opponents they have to play. That doesn't taint their 6th ring or make it any less important

:signmast:

This... I can agree with 100%.

 

[BigD_95]

Im so sick of people saying the playoffs suck, superbowl sucks, this sucks and that sucks just because Dallas isn't there.

Get over yourselves already.

Last years Super Bowl was great. So get over yourself!

 

[AbeBeta]

The saddest thing about this board is how some posters need to spend so much time on sour grapes.

The Steelers won the SB, they had a very tough regular season schedule and, like almost every SB team ever, caught some breaks along the way.

Some of y'all are just sore losers plain and simple.

 

[ajk23az]

Steelers can't do anything about who they play, cant they?

Not their fault at all. The won the games they needed to win.

 

[JohnnyHopkins]

Halftime show was pretty Super.

 

[DallasEast]

I think your missing the point. The NFL as a whole is a watered down league. I want a better product and I want a real champion that earns their way. Pitt had a easy road. Again this in NOT THEIR FAULT. But when looking at the historical aspect which I do. It was a easy road to a Super Bowl victory

The old NFL is dead, put out to pasture via the current salary cap/free agency system, along with the legendary franchises of yesteryear. It's been replaced with... what we have now. I've never like the change from jump fifteen years ago. Every owner and player now has a hand in the candy jar. Greed will never make it disappear. I hate to admit it, but change IS inevitable, even if it's not always for the better. Get used to it, but please extend the favor back by reminding me to do the same.

 

[DFWJC]

Congatualtions to the Steelers. But yes, that probably was the easist run ever when looking at the opponents.

It started when Tenn completley dominated but somehow managed to lose to Baltimore--just a couple of weeks after pounding Pittsburgh. With Indy getting upset and NE without Brady, the path kind of opened up for them. And of course on the other side of the bracket all hell broke lose in the NFC.

Again, it takes nothing away from the Steelers--who did exactly what they had to do to win it all.

 

[Doomsday101]

Pitt went through the season captured their division got the bye week and then faced off with playoff teams, then took care of business in the SB there is nothing easy about it. Pitt deserves the title of champion because they earned it.