Yes Virginia, it is a Super Bowl
- Alex
31-19, 27-10, 26-21, 27-17, 38-8, 38-16, 46-10, 39-20, 42-10, 20-16.
Those are the Super Bowl scores for the decade of the 80s. Ironically, the two closest scores come from one of the teams always
mentioned when you talk about "dynasties", the mighty 49ers of Joe Montana, winning two close games against what came to be the
doormats of the league, the Bengals. Really though, how does the dominant team of the 80s not even dominate their own Super Bowl?
In any case, the question was asked yesterday - can it be a Super Bowl if no one cares? The only plausible answer to this question
is to say that if you didn't care about Super Bowl XXX-whatever yesterday, then you were probably one of those people who watches the
game just for the commercials.
I'd have to say we're spoiled if it's come to this... three of the last five Supers have been decided on the very last play of the
game. Five of the last seven have been excellent games. If you want to extend it back to GB-NE and PIT-DAL, you could even say
seven of the last nine (but I personally don't want to).
The flip side to this argument is that perhaps the games are closer now because there aren't any truly dominant teams anymore.
It's certainly possible to say that the last great team was Elway's Broncos, and that the Supers since then have featured average
teams who caught lightning in a bottle for the season they won (or just made it at all).
I'd have to say I'm all in favor of the unpredictible nature of the NFL if close games in Super Bowls are the result. I truly
didn't care about either team yesterday, yet I still found myself highly entertained at the end. That's Super enough for me.
P.S. Rams v. Titans is still the best Super ever. A game decided on the final play will always trump a game decided on the
final kick.
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