Just some random scribbling on a game that is still reverberating through our hungover, overstuffed brains....

-One of our pet peeves in any sort of sports movies/TV show is that no matter how realistic the movie/TV show is, every game shown features a crazy upset that climaxes with a crazy, totally unrealistic play. It’s true of the otherwise seriously realistic "Friday Night Lights." But that game? That game actually was like how it was in the movies. A crazy upset...a crazy finale...and that totally insanely crazy play in which Eli Manning somehow eluded every Patriot defender and half the Pats bench to throw that hopeless quacking duck of a pass that David Tyree somehow, inexplicably caught off of somebody's helmet.

And that's why we watch sports.

The other great thing about the game is that if the Pats had won, the game would have merely been remembered as the final victory of the Best. Team Ever. But with the upset, the game will now be seen as maybe one the biggest, greatest, most super stupendously games ever. Crushing defeats by supposed juggernauts will do that. Plus, anything that wipes the smirk off of Belichik's and Brady's face is worth it. Not to mention the smirk of every douchey frat-boy who discovered a deep love of the Red Sox just over the past three years. Hell, even every damn smug Boston sports fan. As Nelson Muntz would say "ha-ha!"

-Locally, the angle is that Brady's loss was Joe Montana's gain as he remains only one of two QBs to be 4-0 in the Super Bowl. With Brady breaking all those records, winning all those games, and looking like an easy beat to win the 'Bowl there was talk that Brady was even better than Joe, something that was sticking in the craw of Niner fans everywhere--nobody…nobody! nobody has ever, is ever, or will be ever better than St. Joe. Now that Brady is tagged with a loss, Joe still reigns supreme. But Brady still gets to go home to Gisele every night.

Raiders fans seem to be giddy about the game too, mainly because Randy Moss kinda sorta disappeared in the playoffs and his team lost. All things considering, it's kind of pathetically desperate (something, actually, that describes Raiders fans). At the end of the day, Moss is still a Patriot. And the Raiders are still led by a senile, half-dead owner and a Head Coach who remains a Head Coach mainly because he’s pulling a Costanza and figures out that if he still shows up for work, he can never be fired.

-As much as we love Tom Petty, he looked a little overwhelmed out there. We also love how during all the halftime shows, they throw out a bunch of impeccably healthy kids, as if they've been watching the game all along and are so crazed by the artist, they just have to run out onto the field, not to mention that most of whom probably have never heard of Petty. We also couldn't but help notice that at the start of Petty's set, it looked that guitar was all set to go 'round and smash into the heart-shaped stage but just at the exact moment it was going to happen, someone on TV realized what the guitar smashing into the heart resembled and cut away as fast as possible lest we have another Janet Jackson moment.

-We wonder how much money Archie Manning could get if he sold his sperm to some sperm bank. We also wonder how the third brother, Cooper, is seen in the family. Like, is he constantly referred to as the “son who didn’t win a Super Bowl?”

-For our money, the best commercial was the eTrade baby commercial. Both of them. We're also pretty convinced that ad folks ran out of ideas to sell beer a long, long time ago.

-If you've never seen it, we highly recommend this movie, Darkon the Movie. Don't ask us how we know or what it has to do with the Super Bowl, but this movie? It is awesome.