This year I even watched most of the pregame show because I didn't want to miss the Obama-O'Reilly interview. I thought Obama handled him pretty well, and was it just me, or was O'Reilly the victim of one of the worst TV makeup jobs in history?
I also wanted to see the commercials, and I must say, I wasn't too impressed. Ad Age has all of them on their site this morning. For my money, the only two that stood out were the very strange Budweiser-Tiny Dancer commercial, and the "reply all" spot. I also liked the GroupOn spot and the mini-Darth Vader commercial. Am I missing any? Not one of them made me laugh out loud this year. Disappointing.
Christina Aguilera...you got the National Anthem's lyrics wrong. Nobody mentioned it in the broadcast, but there was one moment when they were panning the sidelines, and I noticed a Packers player look at his teammate and say "did she just get that wrong?"
I posted on my Facebook page that I wasn't a big fan of the halftime show, and several people pointed out that it was quite an achievement considering they really only had ten minutes to set it up. I guess that's true, but the sound mixing was awful. I vote no on that performance. (Maybe I'm still a little upset that people didn't like the Who last year. I thought they rocked.)
As for the game itself, I was rooting for the Steelers all the way, but I have to admit that it was pretty cool when they announced the Lombardi trophy was going back to Green Bay. It was almost poetic.
Now give it back, please.
