Now, that was a great Super Bowl. Wait now, you’re telling me the guacamole dip game is not for another two weeks? But the Pro Bowl is this Sunday … oh, OK, never mind.
Judging by the intensity and the quality of the play by both teams — on defense anyway — the Seahawks and 49ers NFC championship game Sunday should’ve had the Roman numerals attached.
In the old days, before 2002, they could’ve met up for the Lombardi Trophy, since Seattle used to be in the AFC. Who knows? If this Pro Bowl unconferencing works out maybe they will do the same for the playoffs.
Sure, watching Peyton Manning disembowel the Patriots in the AFC title game was somewhat interesting, but only to a point because of the onesidedness of the other half of the most hyped NFL final four that I can remember. All I can figure is that Sports Authority sprung for a dome over Mile High Stadium overnight, or Tom Brady needed to do a better job tackling Knowshon Moreno and covering the Thomases.
But truth be told, Brady was standing idly on the sideline a lot, by his and his offense mates’ own doing, and of course, that of the Denver defense.
Great defense has a way of making good offenses look ugly and make mistakes, which is what we also saw on both sides in the NFC game.
The Seahawks’ defense — aided by the loud home crowd — disrupted and made the big plays, even those two picks of Colin Kaepernick in the fourth quarter that looked like they were all his fault.
For a lot of football fans in Hawaii, Kaepernick took another step toward cementing his status as the player they hate to love or love to hate.
Many of the 49ers fans among us continue to be conflicted, especially if as University of Hawaii fans they loathed him when he was a nemesis at Nevada. When the ball was stripped out of his hand Sunday, it was reminiscent of when Corey Paredes caught him at the goal line to help UH knock the Wolf Pack out of the unbeaten ranks and a potential BCS game in 2010.
"I’ve always been a Niner fan but I do not like Kaepernick," Debbie Ito says. "He’s too full of himself. I hate when he kisses his bicep."
She hates how he turns the ball over, too.
I’m glad the Seahawks won because center Max Unger from Hawaii Prep gets to the Super Bowl. It would’ve been kind of sad if Bruno Mars were our state’s only representative.
But I sure wish Richard Sherman were headed for Hawaii and the Pro Bowl instead of the Meadowlands. I want to talk to that guy!
People losing it over Sherman’s postgame rant should relax and realize that he’s merely a pro wrestler in the body of an All-Pro cornerback. And that we were just entertained for three hours by guys physically assaulting each other, with one play resulting in a player’s knee bent 180 degrees opposite the way it is intended. Perspective.
Did Sherman curse? No. Did he threaten to harm anyone? No. Was he over the top? Sure, in an amusing way — unless, of course, you’re a 49ers fan.
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