Thanks, NFL

Any football fans looking to convert to Hockey after that?

Hockey doesn't draw the same commercial revenue, even if the football commercials are as bad as they were yesterday. 

Very true, but doesn't change the original premise.  

It's been a little while since there's been a good old-fashioned beat down at the Super Bowl.  It may surprise you to learn that you have to go back to 2003 to find a Super Bowl decided by more than 2 touchdowns, but it wasn't always that way.  Back in the 80s and 90s, 20+ point spankings were basically commonplace with scores such as 55-10, 52-17, and 38-9 more the norm than the exception.  Yikes.   

Well, last night brought us back to those days, with the Seattle Seahawks putting a 35-point feel-good whooping on a Denver Broncos team that apparently decided they just had better things to do than play football that day.  

Not only was the game itself a total letdown after the 2 solid weeks of pre-game show dominating sports commentary since the teams were decided, but the Halftime show was marginal at best, the National Anthem came in well under the Vegas line, Joe Namath actually managed to screw up a coin toss, and the list of celebrities in attendance was highlighted by Kevin Costner.  I didn't stick around to watch the post-game show, but I'm willing to bet that stunk, too.  Even the vaunted Super Bowl Commercials, the last bastion of football entertainment, let us down with some really lousy commercials, 21 of which were for either cars or crappy beer.  Incidentally, 2 of those car commercials were for a Maserati that I won't be able to afford regardless of how much they advertise on a football game, so that's money right down the pan. 

All of this leads to the conclusion that this year's Super Bowl experience was lousy.  Fortunate that this happened right in the middle of the NHL season, and right before the Olympic hockey tournament goes into full swing.  So, for all of you who have been successfully disenfranchised with supposedly the best football had to offer us this year, I suggest giving hockey a try.