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Last night's Super Bowl was a great game. Definitely one of the best Super Bowls in a long time. I was excited and my team of choice won (Everybody here should know I'm a diehard Giants fan, but the Ravens have sort of always been the AFC team that I follow, though not nearly as religiously). Flacco proved that he's a better quarterback than most people give him credit for, Jones proved that he's still worth it even though he has the worst hands in the NFL, Ray Lewis (allegedly) didn't kill anybody when the lights went out, and Kaepernick only got to do that stupid bicep kiss once. It was a Super Bowl to remember, and one of the really great games that the NFL has had in a long time.
It is not, however, the greatest Super Bowl of all time, as some people on Facebook and Twitter seem to be alleging.
I put this on Facebook, but I'm also putting it here for posterity:
Nothing last night comes even close to Eli Manning breaking a sack and connecting with David Tyree, who caught the football on his helmet, to save a game winning drive in the last minute of the biggest upset game in NFL history.
That play alone is the greatest play in Super Bowl history. No kick return, regardless of how far, will trump it. No close, one score game will ever match up to a team ruining their rival's perfect season in the Championship game. That is a bigger upset than the so called "Greatest Game Ever Played" (Then-Baltimore Colts coming back against the Giants in the last 2 minutes of the 1958 Championship to win in overtime at Yankees Stadium). Therefore, anybody who thinks last night was the "greatest Super Bowl of all time" has been proven wrong and should stop toting such fallacies.
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