Nice to see Rodgers with a ring, but more so a guy like Donald Driver who's been with the team for so long and now can call himself a Super Bowl Champion. Just nice to see a good guy like Driver win.
+1.
It was sadly ironic that he got hurt in his first Super Bowl appearance, though.
The Packers never trailed, but made it a closer game than it ought to have been with the dropped passes. Props to Rodgers for sticking with his receivers despite the drops. I remember one point in the game Nelson had dropped a pass, but Rodgers went right back to him next play and got a big gain that led to a touchdown. I was worried the defense wouldn't hold with Woodson out, but fortunately they stopped the Steelers when it mattered most.
Yeah, I was worried that either all the dropped passes or the injuries would cost them the game... Fortunately, the Packers were resilient enough to overcome it all. :victory: :applaud:
^ The hours and hours of pregame chatter and fluff were crap as well: the constant shilling of Fox programming and the actors involved made me sick. :bleh:
Fortunately, I channel surfed more than watching that dreck.
What a game :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: Good Job Packers :woot: :woot: :woot: :applaud: :applaud: One thing that i have to say is that for MVP it should have gone to Johnson or Jennings ( I mean yes Johnson Drop 4 balls HE made most of the touch down right ) and the one who got the interception even him as well could have gotten it But it was a good game either way :applaud: :applaud:
Do they always give MVP to the QB??? I would like to know :headscratch:
bmwracer wrote:^ The hours and hours of pregame chatter and fluff were crap as well: the constant shilling of Fox programming and the actors involved made me sick. :bleh:
Fortunately, I channel surfed more than watching that dreck.
Until I read that final sentence was thinking "someone actually watches the pregame fluff". :sweat:
Beemer mentioned how resilient the Packers were. That's a great description for their entire season. Having 16 players on IR, then losing three starters during the Super Bowl game are huge obstacles to overcome. Big kudos to Green Bay for their fortitude.
Just read where this game was the highest rated program in American television history, surpassing last year's Super Bowl which formerly held that honor.
Hopefully the NFL ownership and the players' union won't crush this tide of popularity and fail to come to terms over the new CBA.
shin2 wrote:Beemer mentioned how resilient the Packers were. That's a great description for their entire season. Having 16 players on IR, then losing three starters during the Super Bowl game are huge obstacles to overcome. Big kudos to Green Bay for their fortitude.
I was really surprised that the Packers were able to get it done, seeing that their running game was pretty much nonexistent... I guess Green Bay found a weak spot in the Steelers vaunted defense. :victory:
Emory Bellard, who developed the Wishbone offense while an assistant coach at the University of Texas in the mid-1960's, just passed away at the age of 83.
In its heyday, the Wishbone was a highly popular and very effective offense. Texas and Oklahoma won national championships running it. Bear Bryant, whose Alabama teams were struggling in the latter part of the 60's, implemented it and the Crimson Tide again became a national power. The service academies, particularly Air Force, went to it and became successful. (Of all the teams I have seen run the Wishbone, Air Force, under Ken Hatfield and then Fisher DeBerry, ran it as close to perfection as you could get)
I was a student at UCLA in 1972 when the Bruins converted to the Wishbone. They brought in a junior college transfer to play QB--Mark Harmon (NCIS anyone?). In their opening game they upset two-time defending national champions Nebraska at the L.A. Coliseum. To this day it remains one of the best football games I have ever seen.
But back to Coach Bellard. Before his stint at the University of Texas, he was a great high school coach in Texas, winning three state titles. He left the Longhorns to become head coach at Texas A&M and later Mississippi State. Eventually he again became a high school coach before finally retiring. He accomplished a lot during his coaching career, but he will always be memorialized as the father of the Wishbone, one of the greatest, efficient, team-based offenses ever.
^ I can't remember if I didn't like the wishbone because Switzer used it, or I didn't like Switzer because he used the wishbone. I think it was the former.
gaijinmark wrote:^ I can't remember if I didn't like the wishbone because Switzer used it, or I didn't like Switzer because he used the wishbone. I think it was the former.
I am not a fan of Barry Switzer either. He was about as crooked a college football coach as there was (and that's saying something). And he showed you don't have to be a genius to win a Super Bowl (just have better players and better assistant coaches than everyone else and get the f**k out of their way). He also slept with his best friend's wife (his best friend was Larry Lacewell, Switzer's defensive coordinator at Oklahoma).
shin2 wrote:I was a student at UCLA in 1972 when the Bruins converted to the Wishbone. They brought in a junior college transfer to play QB--Mark Harmon (NCIS anyone?). In their opening game they upset two-time defending national champions Nebraska at the L.A. Coliseum. To this day it remains one of the best football games I have ever seen.
That would be the Tommy Prothro era, huh?
My brother was going to UCLA around that time as well... :)
bmwracer wrote:
That would be the Tommy Prothro era, huh?
My brother was going to UCLA around that time as well... :)
Pepper Rodgers era. Tommy Prothro was earlier, from 65--70. Prothro coached Gary Beban, the Bruins' only Heisman Trophy winner.
Rodgers was only at UCLA for 3 years; he left to become head coach at Georgia Tech (he played at Georgia Tech and was from the state of Georgia).
After Rodgers left, Dick Vermeil became the head coach, but he only lasted a couple of years. After winning the Rose Bowl he bolted to the Philadelphia Eagles. Terry Donahue took his place, and he managed to stay there quite a while and was very successful.
shin2 wrote: The service academies, particularly Air Force, went to it and became successful. (Of all the teams I have seen run the Wishbone, Air Force, under Ken Hatfield and then Fisher DeBerry, ran it as close to perfection as you could get)