WOW!
What a game.
Well it was...after they turned the lights back on and San Francisco decided to ACTUALLY join the damn game.
Face it, the Ravens deserved the win. The first half of the game went a lot like this...touchdown...field goal...interception...interception...fumble and turnover......even the Special Olympics were saying
" Niner's...no that is okay...really...we already have a team."
Beyonce showed up at Half-Time magnificent...wrapped in black leather the way the lawd always intended her to be...helping wipe away the lingering images of last year's Madonna prancing half dressed around a stage at "pushing 60".
"Yeah yeah...you're a virgin...and this is a very old tee-shirt. G'away now."
Then Jacoby Jones (Ravens) ran practically the length of the field for a 108 yard touchdown immediately afterward...complete with the squirrel dance in the end zone...doubtless inspired by Ms. Beyonce's performance.
And then DARKNESS descended on the face of the...oh wait...wrong script...anyway...half of the stadium was plunged into darkness for more than a half hour. And the commentators did what they do best...they talked and analyzed and ruminated...and talked some more...until EVERYONE was ready to just hand them some tools and point them in the general direction of the fuse box...
AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT!
And it was GOOD!
Because, it not only re-lit the stadium (...that had taken on that eerie twilight sunlight filtering through a hole in the roof post-Katrina look and was a bit unsettling actually...hey- everyone was thinking it...I'm just saying it, okay...)
it also WOKE UP my team.
Stunned...looking around themselves...OMG...we're AT the Superbowl...it is just like a dream. So sparkley. Look Crabtree, it's your momma...
With Jim Harbaugh responding:
"Yeah..well you're all going to be dreaming that my shoe is up your a$$ if you don't start playing...and BTW...do you know how long a walk it is back to San Francisco from New Orleans...don't answer that, son...it was a rhetorical question."
"2,272 miles, sir."
Harbaugh: (facepalm)
But from the Third Quarter it was definitely GAME ON...with a couple touch downs and a field goal...two minutes on the clock... and the game was down to one play. It could have been anybody's game.
Last night at 34-31 it was The Ravens...and they certainly earned it!
