Super Bowl Complaints

A lot of hay is being made about the referee and the remainder of the official crew and their bumblin' and stumblin' in the Super Bowl©™® last night. I'm not going to make a statement either way; the Super Bowl is as high-pressure on the refs as it is on the teams, and they're bound to make mistakes. Whatever happens afterwards isn't really my purview - especially since I can name more members of the 1949 Green Bay Packers than I can current NFL officials.

However, the Super Bowl has been tainted lately by being in February. It used to be that no matter what else happened in the course of the season, the Super Bowl was always on the last weekend in January, at least since the advent of the 16-game season. Sometimes it was January 25, sometimes it was January 31st. Sometimes there were two weeks between the conference title games and the Super Bowl, sometimes there was only one.

After the September 11th attacks, the Super Bowl was moved from January 27th 2002 to February 3rd, because the NFL halted and then rescheduled a week of game play (the games originally scheduled for September 16th, if you must know). This started what has since been a once-broken trend of 5 straight Super Bowls played in February (random fact: Three of the last four Super Bowls leading up to yesterday were in February, and New England won them all).

I am agog, I am aghast (is Marius in love at last?). The Super Bowl being played in February cheapens the game, not to mention the Pro Bowl (which laid claim to the only NFL game being held in February for quite a while). The point of having the game at the end of January was to provide a real, legitimate bookend to the season - the month of January ends, the season ends. That's the way it worked. And now? Well, the season drags on into February, it gets muddled with Groundhog Day (It might be on February 2nd 2014, so save the date), there's Valentine's Day, and I'm totally flummoxed. Seriously.

Dearest NFL, teacher, mother, secret lover...move the Super Bowl back to January. Please. My sanity demands it.

On another note, if you missed any Super Bowl commercials or want to see any again, follow the links below.

Google Video
AOL's Super Bowl ad page.

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