Superbowl XLIII

I, of course, picked the Cardinals to win the Superbowl as soon as I knew that they would be in the playoffs. My mother is my proof for that. I did start to let doubt creep in when the Steelers beat the Ravens; however, I still stayed true though.

So, 27-23. If the refs hadn't called two extremely unfair personal fouls on the Cardinals in the third quarter, it's 24-23 with 35 seconds left and two timeouts. A very different ballgame. But, I've gotten sick of blaming the officiating since I used to do it for the Suns all the time.

The bottom line is that the Cardinals defense just didn't get the job done. The defensive line couldn't grab the 7 they chasing. The secondary couldn't do anything right. They bit on every little fake that the Steelers put out there. The offense did something that no one else has been able to do. They put up two touchdowns in the fourth quarter against the best defense in the NFL. The offense put the defense in position to cement a win by forcing either a three and out or a turnover on downs. But they couldn't stop the Steelers. Even when the Cardinals have 8 DBs in there, they still give up a huge play to Santonio Holmes.

One thing that I will never understand is why Ben Roethlisberger threw the ball to a guy in the corner of the endzone in triple coverage. Hats off to the Steelers on that play. A perfect throw and a perfect catch.

But, no matter how you look at it, Kurt Warner threw an incomplete pass on that last play. There should have been a review. The Cardinals had already won two challenges and the review should've been granted to them as a reward for obviously bad officiating earlier.

It's just sad that in this great country, the United States of America, the greatest country on earth, it takes a terrorist attack for an Arizona team to be granted due process of law and given the chance to win a championship.