. . . or did you also see kicking and punching during some of the plays in last night’s Super Bowl game, and wonder why the fights weren’t given the instant replay treatment, or why there was no commentary on it, or why no penalty flags were thrown? If this had been a regular season game, I expect the fighting would have gotten a lot more attention.
At the start of the 3rd quarter, we in Tucson endured a three-minute block of apparently unscheduled advertising, presumably while everyone else in the country was watching the game. I knew something was wrong because there was no sound, the ads were low-res and pixelated, and they were the kind of crap ads that air late in the evening, not the multimillion-dollar extravaganzas you associate with the Super Bowl. Was this just a local Comcast screwup, or did it happen elsewhere? And more importantly, what didn’t we see during those three minutes? When stuff like this happens, I think censorship. What were they hiding? I can’t help thinking it was another fight, since the network was trying so hard to avoid highlighting the earlier ones.
One last question. Am I the only one thinking the game was great but the ads sucked?