The Super Bowl/ Open Letter to Steeler Fans

What a night in Dallas. Our Super Bowl Champions are revealed to be the Green Bay Packers led by Aaron Rodgers. In this post I will cover everything as far as the games entertainment, commercials, and the game itself. I will also issue my declaration of a truce with the Pittsburgh Steeler fans.

The game was pretty entertaining due to a second half performance of the Steelers. Early in the game Ben Roethlesberger threw an interception that turned into a pick 6. That made the score 14-0. Big Ben played his team out of the game in the first half, leaving the score at 21-10. But, he played his way back in to the game bringing the Steelers back within  three. Aaron Rodgers played a terrific game and won a well deserved Super Bowl MVP award. If it weren't for a bunch of dropped passes he could have thrown for at least 400 yards and 5 touchdowns.

Initially after the 21-3 lead and the overall gameplay of the Packers as compared to the Steelers, I thought this game would end up being a blowout. Key injuries to the secondary of the Packers left the door open for the Steelers to claw their way back in.

It was clear that the Packers were the better and more complete team. Green Bay had a better QB, linebacker group, d-line, and had secondary not based on the success of one player. The Steelers defensive backfield has many holes. Troy Polomalu is the heart and soul of their secondary. When he doesn't have a good game, the entire back field has a bad game. Polomalu did not play well last night.

Great win by the Packers and congrats on your 13th NFL Championship. Big ups to Title Town.

Now on to the non-football items concerning the Super Bowl.

Yup, Christina Aguilera butchered the national anthem as if it were a freestyle session. She fumbled the words for to lines and I'm pretty sure she added a line that wasn't even there for the like 200 year history of the song.

Halftime was pretty good. I don't really like the Black Eyed Peas, but if this was a start to an effort of the NFL to bring in more current acts to perform at halftime as opposed to the dinosaurs they've been bringing out since Janet Jackson's nipple came out to say "hi", I'm all for it. I enjoyed them bringing out Slash, but, damn I think Roseanne with laryngitis could have sung "Sweet Child O' Mine" way better than Fergie. Usher coming out to perform was an incredible addition to the show.

The commercials this year were decent at best. There were a few that made me laugh and there were some that tried to make me laugh. The one's that stood out for me were the ones that appealed to emotions. The Chrysler ad featuring Eminem with the tagline of something like, "luxury imported from Detroit". It should have been uplifting to a struggling city like Detroit and it also displayed the beauty of that town. The other commercial I enjoyed was the one with the montage of some of the best TV shows and their characters wearing the clothing of teams of the area the show was based.

I was hyped to see the trailers to "Pirates of Caribbean:On Stranger Tides", "Captain America: First Avenger", and "Transformers: The Dark of the Moon". All of them look pretty good. They need to have more of trailers and better commercials so you don't have to flip the channel and miss part of the game.




Now...This is my open letter to Steeler fans

Steeler Fans,

Any venom I have spewed this week about the Steelers was not influenced by the Steelers team, history, or the Rooney family. I actually really respect Mike Tomlin, and should the Steelers have won I would have been really happy for him. It was towards you Steeler fans. You have got to be  the most over zealous gathering of fans in any sport. I thought Red Sox fans were the worst, but I mean you guys take the cake. People think Yankee fans behave the worse. I don't think it is even close. We have 27 championships to fall back in, you have 6, and we've been dominating the sport for almost a hundred years and we don't act the way you do, neither do Celtic or Laker fans or any team who has been dominating their sport for years.


Oh yeah,  since you guys only want to count Super Bowls, do remember that should the Cowboys or 49ers win a Super Bowl any time soon you will be tied for the most Lombardi's again. And if the Niners win on their next try they'll be a perfect six for six something you're not.

You know before coming out here, I was like "Oh, cool, Pittsburgh, nice blue collar town" then you come and live in Steeler Nation, and it's like wow these guys are assholes, well not all of them. It may be because I'm from a town that has two teams for every sport, but why the hell is everybody here a Steeler fan. DARE TO BE DIFFERENT!

Somebody went as far as to tell me Super Bowl XLV was fixed by the NFL? Really? You lost! Get over it!

I should mention that if you read this and get mad, yes I am talking to you. But, if you read this and say "yeah,we lost and we'll get them next year, I don't give a shit what this SuggiieB asshole's talking about, but yeah we do have a shitload of bandwagoners that don't know shit about football buying Steeler shit", then I'm speaking for you.

Yours Truly,

Green & Yellow

SuggiieB