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Before moving on to my recap of the Super Bowl and the commercials from it, I would like to make sure everyone is aware that the rumors about Kurt Warner retiring to return to his dream job as a grocer full time are erroneous. Sure he may decide to do that at a later time, but he has not made up his mind at this time. He will likely talk it over with his family before deciding if he wants to play football for one more year before heading back to stocking shelves. The rumor about Warner retiring also mentioned how he came back to the NFL mostly to make enough money to be able to provide for his family as being a grocer does not pay as much as you would think. This has not been confirmed with Warner as of yet, but it makes perfect sense. Who wouldn’t want to spend all day at the grocery store. It is a much more pleasant place than the football field. For one thing no one tries to tackle you when you are stocking the cans of peas. They may ask you where the tortilla chips are, but it is always nice to be able to help. Anyway we will report more as the story unfolds. Now to the Super Bowl wrap up.

Kurt Warner nearly pulled off a great comeback, but fell just short.

Anytime the Super Bowl ends up being competitive late in the fourth quarter you cannot really complain, but there were a few minor problems I had with the game including why the Arizona Cardinals waited until the fourth quarter to get Larry Fitzgerald involved. As I said in the Super Bowl Primer yesterday Fitzgerald is a superior athlete and he has proven time after time that if you just throw the ball up for grabs he will almost always make a big play. It is uncanny. Warner said that he found it difficult to just throw it to Fitzgerald when he was covered or double covered. He said if it was up to him he would do less of it, but he had come to learn that Fitzgerald is actually open even when he seems to be covered. Warner reverted to his old ways for the first three quarters and refused to throw to Fitzgerald. Because of this and some bad luck they trailed 20-7 after three quarters. In the fourth he started forcing it to Fitzgerald and he took over the game. At halftime when Springsteen was singing Glory Days it made me wonder whether Warner’s glory days had passed him by or whether he had one more big half in him. When he started to go to Fitzgerald it was as though he had found the fountain of youth. Not to take anything away from Warner, but Fitzgerald is the straw that stirs the drink on the Cardinals. Not getting him the ball for three quarters would be analogous to the 1996 Chicago Bulls deciding to not to pass to Michael Jordan for the first three quarters because he was being double teamed when they tried to get him the ball. Another example would be a director deciding not to have Kate Winslet show her breasts in his or her movie. Seriously she is a good actress, but her breasts seem to bring good luck to any movie in which she shows them. An obvious exception being Holy Smoke with Harvey Keitel. That did not win any awards, but I think it likely got more consideration because of the appearance of Ms. Winslet’s crowd-pleasing performance.

Sorry for getting distracted from the game recap by Kate Winslet I think that is what happens to voters for an awards show. Anyway back to the game. The ending was exciting, but the constant barrage of penalty flags, including some that were questionable at best along with the seemingly endless number of reviewable, calls many in which it was nearly impossible to determine whether the initial call was correct, really ruined much of the flow and spontaneity of the game. Overall I cannot complain though as the fourth quarter was one of the better ones in Super Bowl history, despite these minor annoyances.

Enough about the game. A few thoughts about the commercials. I had never heard of Teleflora Flowers before the Super Bowl, but they got my attention by asserting that getting cheap flowers for your girlfriend is like telling her that nobody wants to see her naked. Believe me there is a difference. I have made the mistake of sending a woman flowers with a note saying nobody wants to see you naked. It was meant to be ironic because she was really attractive and everyone wanted to see her naked. Anyway trust me you would be much better off getting her cheap flowers than none. The main thing to remember is to put a thoughtful note with the flowers. Really the last part about me sending flowers with the same message was meant to be a joke, but it is more of a joke to think of me giving romantic advice as I am currently very much single.

The NBC commercial about LMAO was probably funny for those who are relatively knew to the Internet who were most likely more excited that they understood the reference than they were amused by the commercial. The Denny’s commercial was actually funny, but I do not understand their obsession with the mafia. They previously had commercials with Paulie Walnuts from the Sopranos. Is that really what you want people associating with your restaurant? When I think of eating the sausages I will think of some of the more exotic meat that was ground at Satriale’s Pork Store.

I am somewhat intrigued by the idea of 3-D that actually works, but I am not sure the commercials from last night are an example of this. I will watch Chuck to see if it works better tomorrow night. I know the technology in the theater and supposedly the new innovations in home television 3-D are much better than what was shown last night, but it would have been nice to have a viable solution to 3-D which did not require additional equipment to purchase.

As usual Michael Bay disappointed with the teaser for Transformers. Unless you are a crazed Transformers fan boy there is no way you saw that teaser and were anymore excited about seeing the movie than you were before it. If you are a fan boy though you would likely be excited no matter what they showed. They should have at least showed more of Megan Fox that would have gotten people much more excited about the project.

The best commercial of the night was the Hulu spot with Alec Baldwin. It was humorous, but it also managed to clearly show what Hulu.com is all about. I am a fan of the site already, but there are probably millions of people who are not familiar with the site who are intrigued after seeing the commercial and really as an advertiser that is about all you can ask.

Congratulations to the Pittsburgh Steelers and Hulu as they are the big winners for the night. I did not see who won the MVP yet, but it should be Santonio Holmes as Arizona could not cover him. I criticized the Cardinals for failing to take advantage of Fitzgerald earlier, but they almost managed to pull off the victory anyway. Also to those who run an A&P or a Winn Dixie do not give up hope Kurt Warner may walk through that door after all. Not everyone has the ability to relive their glory days.

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