My Beaver Blog

New England won their third Superbowl in four years, once again by 3 points. It was a good competitive game to watch, which is becoming commonplace with NE. Philly's clock management at the end of the game was poor at best and the decision to onside kick with 1:48 and two timeouts left was iffy. This game should have ended up in OT, but give credit to the Pats, they made the plays when they had to and are once again the champs.

My favorite play of the game was the downing of the NE punt with under 1 mintue to go in the fourth. NE was punted from the Philly 35 and was just looking to give them a long field for the Fg to tie. The punt was up and landed at about the 10 and started to roll towards the goal line. Instead of getting cute and trying to down it at the .00001 yard line, the NE player got inside the five and setteled at about the three. He placed himself between the ball and the goal line and as the ball approached he pounced on it. Mission accomplished. No fighting for extra inches that didn't matter, no misstep on the goal line and putting it out on the twenty. A good smart play at a critical time. Seems to be the trademark of this team.

The most shocking thing about this Superbowl, aside from the rather bland commercials, was the performance of Terrell Owens. Now let me be clear, I hate TO. I despise his antics and me attitude and frankly could do without him altogether. When he had screws put in his ankle 6 weeks ago everyone, save TO, was saying there was no way for him to play again this year. Even the doctor who performed the surgery was unwilling to provide him with a waiver to play. But TO insisted he had been healed. Like most I thought this was his way to stay in the spotlight and get more attention. I figured if he did play it would be along the lines of the pathetic effort Randy Moss made earlier this year to keep his consecutive games played streak alive. TO's effort was far from that. He had 9 grabs for 122 and was on the field for 62 of the 72 offensive snaps. He was able to regulary beat the NE DB's and even run away from them at times. Again I don't like the guy one bit, but this was a stellar effort and was honestly courageous. It almost has me believing he was doing it all to help his team win a title instead of for personal gain. Almost.