Is it just me, or did the Super Bowl just not feel like the Super Bowl this year?

mjgrrrrr · 3 months

The only thing that didn't feel right to me was the commercials.. Someone seriously needs to step up their game considering how many commercial breaks we now have during an NFL game. Also bring back the bud bowl.

Kuskesmed · 3 months

Reading through this thread, it seems like all the Giants fans thought it was an exciting game and they can't understand why many others think otherwise.

hulk_krogan · 3 months

Honestly, I think it's because recent Super Bowls have spoiled us.

I'd have to say the last Super Bowl I found disappointing was XL, because the refs really botched it. Even then, the refs botching it definitely added some flavor to it by giving everyone something to talk about.

cdskip · 3 months

I didn't feel that way at all. I thought it was a great matchup, and a huge game.

LocalMadman · 3 months

The whole game felt like a repost.

"Haven't I seen this before. Yeah, I've definitely seen it before."

Got_Engineers · 3 months

I feel that it was as hyped as a Super Bowl should be but I feel that the game itself wasn't that exciting. I felt that it was just an average game.

brownbesack · 3 months

I think one thing that makes the experience less exciting for me is volume of the crowd during the game. You can barely hear them. (as a side note, that's why I like college more. louder crowd on tv, and the band can be heard. Feels more exciting in good games) At the end (especially when they show Mr. Kraft) the camera is shaking like crazy from the crowd. Why can we barely hear that excitement? It would definitely boost my excitement for the game if I could hear the noise of the crowd.

Seeders · 3 months

im still bummed about the 9ers

emane19 · 3 months

TL;DR: I'm right there with you and most the people I know are too.

After much discussion with friends about this same thing, we all boiled it down to (unfortunately) a lack of a story line. Who was there to really root for on either of these teams? Last year we had the coming of age of Aaron Rodgers and the year before that the Saints defied all by coming together a couple years after their city being destroyed by Katrina and winning big, stopping Peyton from getting his second ring.

This year? The story was all about Green Bay and the 49ers (and eventually Tebow). The Patriots were dominant, but this was really nothing new. For most of the season the Giants were nothing but mediocre and certainly played that way until they got their act together in the end and became a very balanced team. Anything really exciting to follow with them, though? Not really. Victor Cruz became a big name, but I guess the coming of age story of a WR and a TE (Gronkowski) isn't as big as a QB and an entire city being destroyed by a Hurricane.

For me, the only team that I felt deserved this win was the 49ers and that would have made for a great super bowl whoever they played. The story of having a lockout, a new coach, a complete reorganization of the team and coming from no where to nearly making the super bowl? It would have been incredible if they made it. But after seeing the Ravens (who Ravens fans, like me, felt earned a SB appearance and suddenly had all hopes squashed) lose to the Pats (ho-hum, the Pats go to the super bowl? who cares) and then the Giants come from mediocrity in the playoff season to snatch games from the winningest team this season (Packers) and then the storyline team was just too much to make this super bowl exciting. If anything, I think some of those playoff games were much more special than this game (49ers v Saints: best game in recent memory).

Finally, I live in NYC. After the Giants won the game against the 49ers, there was no way I was sleeping. People were going insane, police and fire trucks were driving up and down the streets blasting their sirens in celebration. Singing, screaming, some illegal fire works here and there, it was nuts. Last night? There were some cheers, but nothing like the Championship game, and this game was just as close.

redox000 · 3 months

Yep, I felt the same way. It's not exciting to see the same teams constantly winning.

TufffGong · 3 months

On the west coast there wasn't a whole lot of anticipation, partly due to butthurt and partly due to the fact both teams were east coast teams. Im sure in NE and NY it must have been hectic.

donisaac · 3 months

Game of the Year is still the 49er/Saints matchup, imo. Still, the Giants and Patriots played well. Just not my cup of tea.

joshuaes · 3 months

Wholeheartedly agree and I think it's because there were a ton of contenders that would've made for more interesting matchups than Pats v. Giants rematch.

Obviously this is rooted in fandom, but I think the 49ers v. Saints three weeks ago was more Superbowl worthy than this game ever was.

douchymcface · 3 months

I'm with you, and it's not even because we were thisclose to being there. It's just because I don't care much for the NY-Boston rivalry. It's overdone, overhyped, and pretty insufferable at this point, and I think a lot of people outside the northeast probably feel the same way.

CrispyButtNug · 3 months

The players emotionless? What game were you watching? They were going so hard.

JiveTurkey92 · 3 months

No buzz over the epic rematch? Thought it was great and whoever won was significant. Eli winning his 2nd MVP and SB...or Brady/Belichek winning another and adding on to their legacy.

Henryyyyy · 3 months

Youre right. It didnt feel llike the superbowl this year...it felt like the 2007 superbowl. Har har har

alpha_koba · 3 months

In my opinion, the AFC and NFC championship games are always more exciting than the superbowl because they are always played at the home of one of the teams. Also, this season I think many people were not expecting either of these teams to make it with the seasons the 49ers and green bay had.

post_post_modernism · 3 months

I thought it was an awesome game, very exciting. Two good teams and a revenge storyline as well. Did you go to a party?

CrossCut49 · 3 months

Being in Indianapolis, the hype for this year's superbowl was magnificent. It really got all of us here in that Super Bowl mood. But last year's super bowl to me is what you're feeling now.

drionbh3 · 3 months

I think it was where fans and media had their attention throughout the season leading up to the SB. We had the niners coming together, the packers winning streak, tebowmania, peyton-less colts. There were so many stories happening this season but they never really created that big of a buzz. So when it came down to Pats vs Giants, it was just "meh." Gotta admit as great of a player Eli is, he just doesn't carry that superstar franchise QB aura about him (think Favre, Brady, Peyton). The media and casual fans only recognize QBs....also there's nothing new about the Pats.

TempusSpatium · 3 months

I really think this has to do with the whole Peyton + Colts thing eclipsing the build-up to the super bowl the past two weeks.

As for the game itself, what more do you want for a finish? Offense driving down the field with their last opportunity with the ball behind points to go up a score getting a huge play on the way. Belichick's strategic call to leave Brady more time to score a touchdown rather than to have little time after a high percentage field goal. Brady's hailmary ball floating for an eternity to the endzone to be the deciding play of the game? Obviously I had a personal investment in the outcome of the game, but for me this game had a much more exciting finish than most of the other super bowls.

xincasinooutx · 3 months

It was the lack of playoff-beard from both QBs. Big Ben looked like Hemingway in the days leading up to the Superbowl lol.

boobers3 · 3 months

As a Giants fan I don't think it was as good as SB42. The week 17 match up of the Giants vs the Pats was like rocky 1, the Giants lost but you looked at the fight they gave the Pats and you knew they could get it done. They pushed them all the way, had them on the ropes.

Super Bowl 42 was like watching Rocky (The Giants) vs. Apollo Creed (The Pats) in Rocky 2. The whole time you're thinking "man these guys shouldn't even be in the ring with the Pats" but there they are taking hay makers and delivering their own responses the entire match. An unheard of underdog taking on an established juggernaut and going toe to toe with them for 12 rounds just to get a last second knock out. That was the pinnacle of Super Bowls IMO.

Super Bowl 46 was just stressful for me.

InferiousX · 3 months

Perhaps it was because this exact game was played out a few years ago, with the exact same key people being involved. (Brady, Manning, Coughlin and Belichick)

What I found interesting, is that in a season where people were crying out that defensive football was dead, the winning team in the Superbowl barely broke 21 points.

That had to be one of the lowest scoring games all year.

fuzzymayo · 3 months

Lot of butthurt in this thread.

It was a juicy matchup, and while it wasn't the best Super Bowl ever it certainly lived up to the billing. We got to see a rare Super Bowl safety, and we came like 3 inches away from an insane Hail Mary touchdown to win the world title.

I'm obviously bummed the Saints didn't make it, but I'm pretty satisfied at the way the season ended overall.

Sarkin · 3 months

It was a boring game between two fairly unlikable or at least uninteresting teams, honestly, and it featured a halftime show that absolutely no one anticipated. The commercials were also underwhelming. I'll grant that the last few minutes were more interesting, but I think that everyone knew exactly how it was going to end once Manning had the ball with 4 minutes left. For whatever reason, since the second half of the season started the Giants have gotten a lot of lucky breaks that paired with their own improved play got them the championship.

We had the same exact match-up a few years ago, but it was much more interesting because there was the drama of 18-1, the Tyree catch, and Eli Manning stepping out of his brother's shadow, even if only for a moment. At the Super Bowl party I attended, there were maybe sixty people. We did a straw poll to see who everyone's a fan of. There were four Patriots fans, three Giants fans, a couple of dozen people rooting against the Patriots, and a couple of dozen people rooting against the Giants, and a handful of people there for commercials/last game of the year. Everyone's sick of the Patriots/Steelers/Colts in the Super Bowl and the Giants really didn't have an interesting story line going for them. They certainly weren't underdogs, since everyone and their mother predicted a Giants Super Bowl run if they could beat Green Bay in the divisional round.

stev_meli · 3 months

Uh, the Patriots, Steelers and the Colts have been the only AFC teams in the Supebowl for the past 10 years. The NFC team has been pretty much different every year except this year and in '07-'08.

IneedAbagOFpeanuts · 3 months

I can assure you, it felt like the Super Bowl.

aviewoflife · 3 months

It was also just a really bad and not entertaining Super Bowl. The last score of the game (and go ahead score) was the Patriots defense allowing the Giants to to walk into the endzone. Both teams, especially the Patriots, played some sloppy football. There was no real battle.

carlosspicywe1ner · 3 months

Well, what was the most exciting play? The Manningham catch? That's a pretty weak "best play".

Compare that to say, Pittsburgh/Arizona 3 years ago. The Harrison interception, Fitzgerald's touchdown, and Santionio's catch were all more spectacular than anything yesterday.

But that's not the fault of the teams. It was a very tight game, with both teams playing and executing on a high level on both sides of the ball.

RugerRedhawk · 3 months

I don't know, I thought it was pretty damn super.

Obey336 · 3 months

I loved it and the outcome.

GenerationGreg · 3 months

None of my friends who are 49ers fans were interested and they all made it known through their facebook statuses. Probably because they all thought they'd be in the Super Bowl.

cheebahmonkey · 3 months

HUGE HITS

CashFloInc · 3 months

Hahaha, so many offended Giants fans.

Fucks sake, your team won the Superbowl, who cares what a forum thinks?

KingTalkieTiki · 3 months

I was rooting for against both teams so I can't say I enjoyed it.

Klever81 · 3 months

I'm thinking you are in the vast minority on this one. Third most watched Super Bowl of all time. And lots of excitement in the build up.

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/giants-patriots-third-most-watched-super-bowl-ever_b110745

xero45 · 3 months

Personally, I thought it was a pretty exciting game.

Of course I would have prefer a different matchup, namely a grudge match against the Ravens that I have been hoping for a while.

kskaudonsu · 3 months

I totally agree. The teams didn't seem up to snuff, production was lacking, storylines were way weak. I'm with you, I think it was a disappointment

checkmike · 3 months

I thought the game just seemed sloppy and hard to watch.

I swear I'm not bitter about my team's absence.

pilgrim_hunter · 3 months

yeah i felt almost more interested in any of the sunday/monday night games even when my team wasn't playing. i ended up just playing with my friends dogs during the game even though i am a huge football fan.

[deleted] · 3 months

Felt great to me.

Jinno · 3 months

I think I agree with your sentiments. A rematch isn't really that great a storyline, especially when it's a perennial great team vs a somewhat oafish team. I feel like it could have been an interesting story if there had been a little more time between. We get reminded yearly about the Tyree catch, and we get reminded yearly about how Brady's won three but hasn't been to the podium since.

Let's just have a little review of the storylines over the past few years:

Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Green Bay Packers - Can the Steelers add a 7th Lombardi to their collection? Did Green Bay make the right choice by going with Aaron Rodgers over Favre?
Indianapolis Colts vs. New Orleans Saints - Can Peyton Manning put his critics to rest by getting closer to the number of rings that Tom Brady has? Can New Orleans drop their old moniker of the Aints and cement themselves as an elite football team?
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Arizona Cardinals - Can the Steelers make history as the first team to get 6 Vince Lombardi Trophies? Can Kurt Warner find redemption in the Super Bowl by leading the Cardinals to a championship in their first appearance?
New England Patriots vs. New York Giants - Can New England finally put to rest all the talk of the 72 Dolphins and be the first Undefeated Super Bowl winners since the institution of a 16 game season? Can the Giants lead by Eli Manning stop the juggernaut that is Tom Brady and the Patriots offense?
Indianapolis Colts vs. Chicago Bears - Two time league MVP Peyton Manning finally got the monkey off his back, can he and Marvin Harrison get the championship that has eluded them for so many years? Can the Bears finally win the Lombardi again after such a long drought from the infamous Super Bowl Shuffle?
Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Seattle Seahawks - Can the Pittsburgh Steelers win a Super Bowl for the first time since the Steel Curtain team with Terry Bradshaw and show they're as good as the 49ers and Cowboys? Can the Seahawks win the big game in their first ever appearance?
New England Patriots vs. Philadelphia Eagles - Can the Patriots win Back to Back Super Bowls and cement themselves as a Dynasty? Can the Philadelphia Eagles win their first championship in the Super Bowl Era in their first appearance since Super Bowl XV?
New England Patriots vs. Carolina Panthers - Can the Patriots prove the 2001 Super Bowl wasn't a fluke and win another Super Bowl just two years after the first? Can the Carolina Panthers, who went 1-15 in the 2000 season, find redemption by winning the Super Bowl two years later?
Oakland Raiders vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Can Jon Gruden's Buccaneers defeat the team that traded him away at the beginning of the season?
New England Patriots vs. St. Louis Rams - Despite losing star quarterback Drew Bledsoe to injury early in the season, the Patriots rallied behind an unknown 6th round draft named Tom Brady. Can they beat two time NFL MVP Kurt Warner and the Greatest Show On Turf?

loggedToUpdateThis · 3 months

First super bowl in 20 something years I didn't watch, I guess that says it all

infohawk · 3 months

Considering a fair amount of the posters that agree are fans of teams that almost made it I would chalk a lot of this sentiment up to disappointment. It's not as fun when you're team was a field goal away from it.

On the other hand, the Giants were 9-7. Not exactly a team people would consider dominant like Green Bay or New Orleans. And New England didn't win against that many good teams this year (except Baltimore when it counted).

Neowarcloud · 3 months

I wasn't excited for it, but its because its two teams that I honestly have no interest in...

I'd rather have watched the bears represent the NFC...The game itself was decent, was close, but was devoid of big plays...Pats receivers laid an egg dropping some easy passes...

colonel_mortimer · 3 months

I think we also were watching a couple of very overexposed teams that had game plans focused on clock management, which is kind of dull to watch if you're not a fan of either team or don't have anything riding on the game.

I also didn't feel like the pacing of the game was all that great. It had a rhythm and a pretty clear plan, but it wasn't necessarily one that's great from an NFL spectator POV. It was like watching a bike race, where everyone goes just hard enough to keep up but saves enough juice to break away at the end.

A lot of recent Super Bowls have featured much more scoring and have also showcased teams that have only just recently gained or re-gained the limelight or had only seen regional exposure. This game had a lot more of the game-of-the-week feel of a MNF or SNF match-up. It was still a good and competitive game, but it was a little dull and the drama/storylines were played out for anyone not a fan of NYG/NE. It seems reasonable to feel a little let down too because we didn't get to see the other potential powerhouse match-ups depending on how the playoffs turned out.

cheebahmonkey · 3 months

It's because people are jealous.. if the steelers or denver or any were in it, thing would have been dif

Phishticks · 3 months

It's because of the lockout

SpaghettiWizard · 3 months

Yeah I felt the same way. I think it's because so many people were rooting for and (in my case) counting on the Harbaugh Bowl

entsportsjunkie · 3 months

I am from New York and I have no idea what you are talking about!

katarr · 3 months

The Superbowl, while being the championship game of the NFL season, is also a day for Americans to get together as a group, buy tons of food and drink, and generally have a party. It's a de facto holiday celebrating consumerism. Lately, though, the economy has toughened and people have begun cutting back to make ends meet. Everything, especially non-essentials like a Superbowl party, has been belt-tightened and scaled back, not eliminated, but infused with this sense of subdual. Perhaps that is part of what some feel.

internetter_ · 3 months

The actual football match was quite entertaining, afaic. Two quarterback performances for the ages, epic catches (and epic chokes, so sorry Wes), some cool handoff trickery by the patriots, a crushing running game by the Giants, and the whole thing went down literally to the last instant of the final play, with Hernandez almost grabbing that Hail Mary.

The game seems like a letdown because there was just too much dark blue in the uniforms this year, plus the Giants' grey pants, blah. that and the "New York/Boston? Yawn" factor. Also, the commercials were atrocious. We need to amend the Constitution to prevent GoDaddy.com from being able to do ads.

I was thinking if we chose the championship match through some kind of combination of polling system and team records, we probably would have had a Green Bay/Baltimore Super Bowl this year. NFL BCS, anyone? >:D

BlackNyellow · 3 months

I felt the way it ended just seemed incomplete almost as if they should have had another quarter or something. The game ended the Giants ran on the field and it didn't seem to have the same magic.

lancerevo98 · 3 months

i am a patriots fan, and before i am down voted into oblivion, i would like to say good win to the giants. Secondly, it really felt like a regular game, and honestly, it was pretty fucking boring until the last 5 minutes, and thats not what it should be like

Avenged492 · 3 months

The record it broke for being the most watched event in U.S. History would like to have a word with you.

Seaness · 3 months

I felt the same way. Living in Texas I didn't really have a loyalty to either team. Boston and New York teams win championships all the time so it never felt like there was an underdog in the game. I don't know it was just a boring matchup for me.

TheGreenBackPack · 3 months

I think for me, it was all the dumbass media hype. They talked about it SO MUCH on ESPN that by the time the game rolled around, i was just wishing for this shit to be over so i can stop hearing how you can't spell elite without Eli, or how Brady and Belicheck have won so many superbowls together.

smfrank777 · 3 months

This will get buried at the bottom, but there was no jet flyover!!!!

theoctopawd · 3 months

I felt pretty indifferent about the two teams. The playoffs are always more enjoyable to me anyway. If Gronk was 100% it would have been a lot more fun to watch.

AtePoint307 · 3 months

I felt like that too. I really wanted to see the 49ers return to glory after my Steelers lost. I think everyone is sick of the Patriots and they weren't their normal dominating selves this year anyway (Kinda didn't deserve to be in the SB if you as me). At least it was a good game though, can't complain.

SolarClipz · 3 months

I didn't think so. But it's probably all my pent up rage.

NotoriousNYG · 3 months

i thought it was bc i was trippin out, but as it turns out it didnt feel like the patriots were in control at all and that the Giants were going to win no matter what. non-biased

[deleted] · 3 months

No one interesting and new played. It was Old superbowl man himself tom brady and the little retard eli manning. Kinda just lacked the newness. Youre right though, outside of NY and Boston people just didnt care.

I personally didnt care about the game because this is the second time the fucking giants have sucked dick in the regular season only to find themselves in a weak enough division to make the playoffs. Kinda seems like they didnt earn either of these titles, they just got hot at the right time. But hey whether or not they deserve the titles, they have them and no one can take them

snufalufalgus · 3 months

As a Pats fan it felt more like a colonoscopy to me

patriotboy43 · 3 months

Huge Patriots fan and Giants fan (born in brooklyn raised and Boston). The game was a little flat for me. It wasn't as exciting imo. The playoffs were phenominal but the superbowl was meh. I wasn't even as crushed when the Pats lost like in 07. It stung for a little bit and thats it. Not alot of specatular plays except for that catch late in the game.

as1126 · 3 months

Biggest ratings ever, so it wasn't just NY and Boston watching.

SUMYD · 3 months

The worst part was Nick Cannon and the 15 hr award show red carpet coverage it got.

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