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See, I knew Santonio Holmes was awesome
Three weeks ago I decided Santonio Holmes was badass because he totally took out a cameraman while running into the endzone to score a touchdown.
Two weeks ago I saw him run the same play, without the cameraman, but just decided he was cool because whatever. Besides, the only line of Here We Go Steelers that I could remember was "Roethlisberger's ready to throw / to Ward, Washington, or Santonio".
Last week I was talking to a friend about how Santonio Holmes is from Ohio State, which means he's supposedly Full of Awesome.
Anyway, so today I got back to Seattle and Zach and I went over to Drew and Jason's place to watch the Super Bowl. We thought there'd be a lot of people and had a ton of food, but in reality it was just the four of us, sometimes with Jason's mom too.
You either know what happened or you don't, but basically, the Steelers were totally up for a long time, then managed to get behind, then managed to go ahead again on a last-minute TOTALLY AWESOME PLAY where Santonio Holmes managed to catch the most ridiculous touchdown pass ever.
And what was funny in our watching is... around the start of the 4th quarter they had a thing on TV for "vote for the MVP online", and the four choices for the Steelers were Roethlisberger, Ward, Parker, and Harrison. Harrison makes sense because he had made this INSANE play at the end of the 2nd quarter, getting an interception at the Cardinals' goal line and running it back 100 yards for a touchdown. This was even MORE nuts due to him being this huge defense guy, he was totally kind of stomping and running like an ogre or something.
But, I wasn't happy with those four choices, so I yelled "I'M VOTING FOR SANTONIO HOLMES!!"
Keep in mind that he was just playing well and had made some nice catches so far in the game, but hadn't been a superstar or anything. It wasn't even a sure thing that the Steelers would win, but I was totally like "Santonio is going to save us!"
Then he made The Catch.
I just thought it was bizarre that I totally called it.
The other thing is that, as I've mentioned, "if Deanna knows a players' name, that means they'll do cool things," and unfortunately I kept wondering who that #11 on the Cardinals was with the long hair, and as soon as I finally cemented in my head that his name was Fitzgerald, he totally started kicking ass too. Grr. Goal in future: learn ABSOLUTELY NO NAMES on the opposing team.
Oddly, I think I have actually become a Steelers fan of sorts in the last 3-4 years. I would never call myself a football fan in the first place, really, but the fact is I actually can name more Steelers than all other teams put together, and I like my Terrible Towel, and I guess they just kind of symbolize Pittsburgh to me, especially since the Pirates are so bad these days. And since I never know who any of the Eagles are except the QB and RB, I don't really feel like I'm really qualified to be an Eagles fan.
Bruce Springsteen also got some bonus points for taking out a cameraman, although he did it in a rather unorthodox manner...
I'll write a real entry about the last few days in a bit. For now I just think it was really neat to be around for another Steelers superbowl victory, and to see Santonio "Run, Little Dude, Run!" Holmes get the MVP. It was so cute to see Jerome Bettis at the broadcast table, too. :)
Two weeks ago I saw him run the same play, without the cameraman, but just decided he was cool because whatever. Besides, the only line of Here We Go Steelers that I could remember was "Roethlisberger's ready to throw / to Ward, Washington, or Santonio".
Last week I was talking to a friend about how Santonio Holmes is from Ohio State, which means he's supposedly Full of Awesome.
Anyway, so today I got back to Seattle and Zach and I went over to Drew and Jason's place to watch the Super Bowl. We thought there'd be a lot of people and had a ton of food, but in reality it was just the four of us, sometimes with Jason's mom too.
You either know what happened or you don't, but basically, the Steelers were totally up for a long time, then managed to get behind, then managed to go ahead again on a last-minute TOTALLY AWESOME PLAY where Santonio Holmes managed to catch the most ridiculous touchdown pass ever.
And what was funny in our watching is... around the start of the 4th quarter they had a thing on TV for "vote for the MVP online", and the four choices for the Steelers were Roethlisberger, Ward, Parker, and Harrison. Harrison makes sense because he had made this INSANE play at the end of the 2nd quarter, getting an interception at the Cardinals' goal line and running it back 100 yards for a touchdown. This was even MORE nuts due to him being this huge defense guy, he was totally kind of stomping and running like an ogre or something.
But, I wasn't happy with those four choices, so I yelled "I'M VOTING FOR SANTONIO HOLMES!!"
Keep in mind that he was just playing well and had made some nice catches so far in the game, but hadn't been a superstar or anything. It wasn't even a sure thing that the Steelers would win, but I was totally like "Santonio is going to save us!"
Then he made The Catch.
I just thought it was bizarre that I totally called it.
The other thing is that, as I've mentioned, "if Deanna knows a players' name, that means they'll do cool things," and unfortunately I kept wondering who that #11 on the Cardinals was with the long hair, and as soon as I finally cemented in my head that his name was Fitzgerald, he totally started kicking ass too. Grr. Goal in future: learn ABSOLUTELY NO NAMES on the opposing team.
Oddly, I think I have actually become a Steelers fan of sorts in the last 3-4 years. I would never call myself a football fan in the first place, really, but the fact is I actually can name more Steelers than all other teams put together, and I like my Terrible Towel, and I guess they just kind of symbolize Pittsburgh to me, especially since the Pirates are so bad these days. And since I never know who any of the Eagles are except the QB and RB, I don't really feel like I'm really qualified to be an Eagles fan.
Bruce Springsteen also got some bonus points for taking out a cameraman, although he did it in a rather unorthodox manner...
I'll write a real entry about the last few days in a bit. For now I just think it was really neat to be around for another Steelers superbowl victory, and to see Santonio "Run, Little Dude, Run!" Holmes get the MVP. It was so cute to see Jerome Bettis at the broadcast table, too. :)
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"Great players step up in big-time games to make plays." - Santonio Holmes
David Tyree had a great catch for the Giants last year: The game winning drive came down to 4th down and forever, and with Patriots lineman running for him, Eli Manning scrambled for dear life and threw up a deep duck down the middle of the field. Tyree made this high, arching leap over Pats back Asante Samuel and literally caught the ball in midair with his hands clamping the ball against his HELMET.
I don't know, it's a toss up because Santonio totally had to do ballet to catch that ball and it came just one play after the potential game winner went right through his outstretched hands in the end zone. I can probably call either catch the greatest Super Bowl catch ever without hyperbole (and I've seen almost every one since Super Bowl XXIII in 1988). Both catches were ridiculous in scope and incredible in context, coming on game winning drives.
Fun fact in the form of a question: Guess where Larry Fitzgerald played college football?
The University of Pittsburgh
Re: "Great players step up in big-time games to make plays." - Santonio Holmes
Aside: I didn't hear anyone yell "Run little dude, run" during the game, but I did get off the couch and yell "Run fat man, run" at James Harrison during his runback.
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I was playing D&D with friends and we only took in the game a little, all but missing the halftime show. So please tell me what you're talking about here?
Holmes made an awesome play, but the one that caught my attention the most was, I think, the previous Steelers touchdown. It was the one where the receiver made the touchdown by landing on his HEAD just inside the end zone. Ow, that had to hurt.
Overall, from what I caught of it, an amazing game.
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Also, that other TD you refer to, I believe was not a pass to a receiver, was an interception by a linebacker which was run back for ~100 yards and ended up in the end zone after time had expired for the half.
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That Harrison touchdown was the most ridiculous thing ever. We were all on our feet for it... I mean, how can you not catch a guy that big? And how often do you see Fitzgerald (or Breaston for that matter) make half a tackle? That was about as amusing to me as watching big ben tackling his own interception.
PS - Fitzgerald is ridiculous... but I hope for his sake Boldin sticks around.