Super Bowl 43

This year's Super Bowl was one for the ages. In the Pre-game show the band that played for the Super Bowl was the legendary band Journey playing their world famous song "Don't Stop Believing". This year, the Super Bowl itself featured a 12-4 team in the Steelers and a 9-7 team in the cardinals. Just by looking at the records, you could tell that both teams had a rough season but in some people's eyes, it was the Steelers that had the tougher schedule just based on their opponents. But the Cardinals had a not so great schedule as well. But when the game started both teams looked to be just about even but that was just them warming up. When the second quarter came the Steelers were by 10 when the score was 10 - 0. And out of nowhere, Kurt Warner scores a end zone pass to Larry Fitzgerald. The kick after was good and now the score was 10 - 7 at the half time. Now came the wonderful halftime show which featured Bruce Bringstein rocking out and waking up the sold out Super Bowl crowd. In the third quarter, the Cardinals were on the tips of scoring another touchdown but then Kurt Warner threw an interception to number 92 William Harris ,a Steelers middle linebacker, and he returned it from inside the end zone all the way down to the Cardinals end zone to score a touch down. This run alone was the longest return in Super Bowl history with it being more then 100 yards. Now the score was 17 to 7 and later in the third quarter, the Steelers rack even more points by adding a field goal kick. The current score at the end of the third quarter is 20 - 7. As I was watching this, I thought the Cardinals were done, but boy was I wrong. The fourth quarter was the best one when Kurt Warner through a great pass to Larry Fitzgerald and Fitzgerald was able to go all the way into the end zone for a huge and much needed touchdown. The score is now 20 - 14 and I began to think "Okay the Cardinals might just pull off the upset of the century." As the final quarter went on the Cardinals were able to pin the Steelers deep in their own end zone and were able to score another two points because the Steelers got a Safety foul. With the score at 20 - 16 this game was getting really exciting but the most exciting point was when Fitzgerald was able to score another touchdown thanks to a great line holding their blocks and Kurt Warner being able to throw as good as he did. And for the first time, the Cardinals were leading with a score of 20 - 23. And just as it looked like as if the Steelers were going to just go into over time, Rothoelisberger threw a huge and well needed pass to Santonio Holmes and he was able to run it down all the way to the seven yard line down deep in Cardinals Territory. After their first shot at the end zone with only less then two minutes left, Rothoelisberger was able to pass to Santonio Holmes for a deaf defying catch and thus putting the Steelers back in the lead with the score at 27 - 23. Now the last few seconds of the game were perhaps the most exciting with the Cardinals just inches away from getting the lead again, but the Steelers defense was able to get to Kurt Warner and force him to loose the ball in a controversial call by the refs. From a certain stand point, it looked like as if the ball was in forward motion, but the officials called it a fumble and thus ended Super Bowl 43. I honestly thought this years Super Bowl was very exciting, much like Last year when the Giants pulled off a tremendous upset against the undefeated Patriots making with a end score of 17 - 14 with the Giants winning, and now all I can do is wait for the next exciting Super Bowl game which might be next year.