Fate Drops It's Last Dime

Patriots Outlast Eagles and simultaneously make millions of pointspread losers in final minutes after surrendering a 10 point point-spread-busting lead.

I won't say much just yet other than for the victory marks the 13th consecutive Super Bowl that I was rooting for the wrong team. Not since the Redskins' 1992 victory over the Bills did I finish my Super Bowl watching with anything more than a gut bloated by chili and beer and a distinct sense of dread to listen to the "I told you so" choruses the following Monday. Perhaps Super Bowl Monday should be an official holiday. Allow those of us always on the losing end of the margin to wallow in the juices of our own misery, indigestion, heartburn and dread.

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Was I the only one absolutely floored by Paul McCartney's performance at halftime being a highlight and not the schmaltz-fest I'd envisioned. Good lord, the Jesus TV Censors even allowed him to use the term "California grass" and I'll tell you, as we were coming up to that stanza, I thought for sure he was going to suddenly change the lyrics to "bought some California trash" or something equally ridiculous. I mean how is that one year following the moral outrage of Janet Jackson's bared breast, the world's second to last living Beatle is standing there before God and America singing about buying weed?? I'm surprised the power wasn't pulled halfway through the line.

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For the thousands of readers whose emails have already begun pouring in complaining that Sports Amnesia's Super Bowl Special Edition was never published, well, yes, true enough. The editorial staff of Sports Amnesia was out on a collective weekend on the piss for a few of those days they should have been preparing and then spent the better part of Sunday before the Super Bowl having a few pints and losing four consecutive chess matches and then back-to-back Premiership matches which saw Southampton manage to impart a point on Everton after dominating and our heroes, the lads at Chelsea perform a functional yet seemingly single point draw at home against Manchester City and confirming for all who wondered that yes indeed, now that Arjen Robben is injured indefinately, it's time for panic to set in.

There will be more Super Bowl coverage later today or perhaps this evening however, due to the disappointing result, the hosannas and paens to the NFL's greatest dynasty blablabla will be limited as Sports Amnesia begin scouting college hoops in anticipation of the Bubble and scouting NL East sides as Spring Training nears.