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It may not have come across on TV, but there didn't seem to be any celebratory cheers whenever anyone went over for a try. Even when the Poor-mans JdV did his 80m interception.[/b]
They were cheering at that point but you have to understand the Superbowl consists of no regular fans, they are all corporates who are there to network as opposed to watch a game. It's depressing but true. All the real fans are sitting in the bars as opposed to in the stadium.
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The thing is that the acoustics in American open air stadiums are completely different to European ones. There are no roofs to reverberate sound and the insides of the likes of the Superdome or Ford Field are cavernous in the extreme[/b]
Don't include the Superdome in that, that building is old school and reverberates a lot of sound if you watched the Pats/Saints earlier this year you'd understand what I mean. Same thing goes for the dome in Minnesota, which will soon be gone. It's the new "corporate" friendly stadiums that are taking away some of the noise (ie they are built with an insane number of corporate boxes). Also, with the invention of HD tv it's actually more fun to stay at home to watch the game as opposed to going to the game given the start/stop nature and large number of tv breaks. So that attracts a less enthusatic/less drunk crowd.
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Problem with Manning is that he loves those short passes and Saints really did their best to confuse him. He got away with one long pass for the Colt's first TD but after that he was having to work overtime and it was showing. He had to make a mistake sometime.[/b]
Manning is the (now) second best Qb in the league, he is the most efficient and he doesn't "love" any singular type of pass. The problem was the old choke artist Payton came out in the third Q (you may not have picked up but there was a play when he lost track of time and couldn't get the play off, something that NEVER happens for Manning). What led to the intercept was the fact that they ran the exact same play two plays earlier. They just had Garcon in motion to make it look different but it was the same slant play, and this time they recognized it and picked it off. Historically speaking it's the worst throw ever thrown. If he makes that throw and they come back Peyton can be considered the best Qb of his generation and goes up there and matches Joe Montanna for best ever, or he makes the throw he does and he's back to just being a great Qb but still Brady's ***** and average in the playoffs (career record of 9-9 when it counts).
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Manning didn't choke like Brady did and we didn't have the dream throw that Roethlisberger threw last year, but there was still that one huge play that turned the game.[/b]
See above for why that was very much a Manning choke and Brady has never choked anywhere near the level Payton has in the past and what was an atrocious, terrible, brutal throw. Brady is the most clutch Qb ever next to Joe Montana that much almost cannot be denied. He's got the 3 rings to prove it. Doesn't match Montana's 3 superbowl MVP's but still mighty impressive.
And yes Prestwick, too often guys get caught up in dive over the top/go up the middle crap because it's what they've seen on NFL Films since Superbowl one.