Karsceal Turner – I Got NEXT!
Yes, I realize it is Tuesday, two days AFTER Super Bowl 48. The confetti is being swept up off the playing surface in New Jersey at MetLife Stadium.
No Super Bowl had been played outdoors in a cold-weather city — not that the Big Apple was anything close to frozen Sunday, when it was 49 degrees at kickoff. 111.49 million Viewers tuned in for this debacle.
Things went sour for Manning and the Broncos from the very first scrimmage, and by halftime they were down 22-0 — their biggest deficit of the season and the only time they didn’t score in a half.
On that first play, Manning stepped up toward the line just as center Manny Ramirez snapped the ball. It flew past his incredulous quarterback into the end zone, where Knowshon Moreno dived on it for a safety. Broncos’ faithful waited and waited for a reprieve which never came. They got their butts kicked up and down the field.
As of today, Seattle is preparing to throw one of the biggest celebrations in its history. On Wednesday, the 12th man will have a chance to see Coach Pete Carroll and the Seahawks hoist the Vince Lombardi trophy in person during a parade through downtown Seattle.
Meanwhile, folks like yours truly simply shake their heads at the fact that their team wasn’t participant.
If you’re not a Seattle or Denver fan…You’re SALTY
As I sat down to compose some notes for this column I was reminded of one of the Super Bowl commercials which really mirrored my thinking about the game. It was the one sponsored by TurboTax with the sad truth that watching a Super Bowl which doesn’t involve your team bloody sucks.
BTW it was the Seattle Seahawks who bounced my beloved New Orleans Saints from participating. Ah well, better luck next year Saints.
I truly didn’t think it was going to go down like that…The Seattle Seahawks are Super Bowl Champions. Excuse the hell out of me for waiting a couple days allowing that to sink in. I was rooting for Peyton and the Broncos but they totally tricked off the church’s money with that piss-poor performance Sunday night.
I was able to overlook the safety, two field goals, and miscues because I figured the Broncos were approaching “Peyton time”. But Peyton Time never arrived. After a while, I began to truly feel for the Broncos team, and their fans because that butt whipping wasn’t at all a fluke.
Also, I was reminded why I disliked the Seahawks in the first place. It was because of what they did to my New Orleans Saints. I must say, they didn’t play any favorites in handing out ass-whippings. Damned if they didn’t cook the Broncos goose even worse.
Russell Wilson’s comments after the win were as classy as his play throughout the season. “Hey, why not US?’ he vehemently asked a reporter afterwards.
Waiting to get their hands on the Lombardi Trophy, the Seattle Seahawks were surrounded by security guards in orange jackets. It was the first time anyone in that color stopped them all night.
“The only way we could say we were the best defense was to take down the best offense,” linebacker Bobby Wagner said.
Seattle (16-3) was too quick, too physical and just too good for Denver. What was hyped as a classic matchup between an unstoppable offense and a miserly defense turned into a rout. It was ugly folks.
They aren’t called the Legion of Boom for nothing
The Legion of Boom, the Seahawks’ hard-hitting secondary, part of a young team with an average age of 26 years, 138 days. Speaking of the L.O.B., Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman was knocked out of Super Bowl 48 by an ankle injury, Sherman stayed up until the wee hours celebrating the season that was and the future that awaits him surrounded by friends and family after the game.
A 25-year-old from Compton, a Stanford grad and the son of a garbage man, Sherman has become a sudden pop-culture icon, with dozens of interview requests pending and several marketing deals already in negotiation; it is the result of three seasons of stellar play and one volcanic explosion on live television following the NFC title game. Coach Carroll made his way to Sherman at the team celebration and told Sherman he was proud of him.
Punctuating Seattle’s dominance was a 69-yard interception return touchdown by linebacker Malcolm Smith to make it 22-0, and Percy Harvin’s sensational 87-yard kickoff return to open the second half.
“This is an amazing team. Took us four years to get to this point, but they never have taken a step sideways,” Carroll said. “These guys would not take anything but winning this ballgame.”
Be salty if you want to. The Seahawks are World Champions.
