Rex Grossman Stinks! In Other News

When I think of the Super Bowl, I think of many things, football, commercials, Janet Jackson, but pretty colors and weird music are not among them. Neither are you Prince.
You have the most manly, good old “American” four hours of television of the year, and you fill it with Cirque du Soleil?! Honestly, I can’t imagine what the Super Bowl coordinators were thinking. When people watch the Super Bowl, they do not want to see anything un-American, least of all French. It’s not that I have anything against the French, but, to quote British comedian Eddy Izzard, “they do have a tendency to be, you know, French”
Actually, I have a lot of respect for the performers in Cirque Du Soleil, it takes a great deal of coordination to do whatever it is they do. Still, that does not mean that I condone their performance during the pre-game show of a Super Bowl.
As for the football aspect of the Super Bowl, and yes, those of you who may watch the game solely for its commercials, it is actually a football game, not only a commercial filled halftime show.
I can sum up the reason why the Indianapolis Colts beat the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl 41 by a 29-17 score in two words: Rex Grossman.
I can sum up his performance in two words: gross, man!
Actually, if you look at Grossman’s quarterback stats, he wasn’t all that bad. He only threw eight incomplete passes, compared to twenty complete, and if you count the one which he happened to throw to the wrong team, he had two TD passes. His QB rating of 63.8 beats his season low by 63.8. (Grossman recorded the NFL’s first-ever 0.0 quarterback rating on New Year’s Eve against the Green Bay Packers.)
Oh, let’s not forget his two fumbled snaps. If I was being kind to Grossman, I would say that fumbling the snap is about one percent the fault of the center. But that would be too kind for Grossman.
Actually, I gotta hand it to him (what’s the point, he’d drop it anyway). He did provide me with a boatload of laughs. (Speaking of a boat, the teams on the field could have used one with all the rain that fell over the course of the game)
Moving on to more examples of how Rex Grossman just plain failed. On one of the snaps which he dropped, he tried to pick it up, and it actually fell through his legs a second time. That was really, really funny.
The Super Bowl as a whole however—not too funny. This is sad, considering it had so much potential, so much firepower on the field. And yet, the rain doused the firepower. This was the most evenly matched Super Bowl in as long as I can remember, and it ended nothing short of a blowout. Although it was really only a 12-point game, as far as momentum and domination are concerned, it might as well have been a 1,200-point game. It wouldn’t have made a difference.
But what else is new? Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre is returning for another season (his 17th season, and 16th as a starter for Green Bay), Rex Grossman choked in a big game, and the Bear’s Devin Hester ran back a kickoff for a touchdown. (In a related story, the sky is blue.)