DETROIT STEEL CITY
Well, as you probably know by now, the Motor City became the Steel City during Super Bowl XL tonight...Steel, as in the Pittsburgh Steelers. With the final score 21-10, they dethroned the Seattle Seahawks to clinch their fifth title, their sixth since their last win at Super Bowl XIV in 1980. Hines Ward was the game's MVP while hometown boy Jerome Bettis announced that "the Bus" stops there; he's calling it a career after 13 seasons.
With the game taping at home, I was watching it this time at the Blue Loon club a few miles outside Fairbanks. And believe me, the scene there was pro-Seahawks all the way, knowing that they're our regional team. One sign that it was a Super Bowl party to remember: My good friends Glen "Glenner" Anderson and Jerry Evans were there with their sons.
I don't need to explain the atmosphere, but they were really into what were believed to be some missed calls that cost the Seahawks the game. Well, that and the COMMERCIALS!!!
Speaking of which, the favorites according to reaction from the Blue Loon crowd were the Budweiser "streaker", Burger King's "Whopperettes", Bud Light's "Magic Fridge", the two Diet Pepsi spots, and as far as movie ads, "Mission: Impossible 3." GoDaddy.com, with the return of the WWE's Candice Michelle, was not a hit with everybody.
And then, there was halftime starring the Rolling Stones; before all that, it
was Aaron Neville and Aretha Franklin belting out the national anthem. Immediately after the halftime show, there were door prizes to be given away, one of them a huge Seahawks carpet mat. Maybe I guess they couldn't find a Steelers mat.
Anyway, we'll find out later tomorrow how many of you tuned in to all this. But for Bill Cowher's Pittsburgh Steelers, 26 years was good enough. And for the Seahawks? Mike Holmgren may already have the Vince Lombardi Trophy from when Green Bay last won, but it's tough trying to win a Super Bowl on their first time. There will always be a next season for Seattle...or one after that, or another after that, and so on.
With another memorable -- and perhaps, controversial -- Super Bowl in the books, have a good night.
With the game taping at home, I was watching it this time at the Blue Loon club a few miles outside Fairbanks. And believe me, the scene there was pro-Seahawks all the way, knowing that they're our regional team. One sign that it was a Super Bowl party to remember: My good friends Glen "Glenner" Anderson and Jerry Evans were there with their sons.
I don't need to explain the atmosphere, but they were really into what were believed to be some missed calls that cost the Seahawks the game. Well, that and the COMMERCIALS!!!
Speaking of which, the favorites according to reaction from the Blue Loon crowd were the Budweiser "streaker", Burger King's "Whopperettes", Bud Light's "Magic Fridge", the two Diet Pepsi spots, and as far as movie ads, "Mission: Impossible 3." GoDaddy.com, with the return of the WWE's Candice Michelle, was not a hit with everybody.
And then, there was halftime starring the Rolling Stones; before all that, it
was Aaron Neville and Aretha Franklin belting out the national anthem. Immediately after the halftime show, there were door prizes to be given away, one of them a huge Seahawks carpet mat. Maybe I guess they couldn't find a Steelers mat.Anyway, we'll find out later tomorrow how many of you tuned in to all this. But for Bill Cowher's Pittsburgh Steelers, 26 years was good enough. And for the Seahawks? Mike Holmgren may already have the Vince Lombardi Trophy from when Green Bay last won, but it's tough trying to win a Super Bowl on their first time. There will always be a next season for Seattle...or one after that, or another after that, and so on.
With another memorable -- and perhaps, controversial -- Super Bowl in the books, have a good night.
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