Super Bowl Sunday is over, the football season is over and the Train Daddy is ready to give you a 2012–13 season breakdown in a such a way, it will make you slap your mama and crave some meatloaf!
Let me first start off by giving congrats to the Baltimore Ravens and Joe Flacco on becoming World Champions and the winner of Super Bowl XLVII.
This NFL season was full of drama starting with the lockout that ultimately created the circus act known as Replacement Refs, eventually leading to the Packers vs. Seahawks game that may have been the end to this awful circus act. This season, for myself, was one to forget, being such a passionate Titans fan. All across the board it was rough, and who do I blame? Of course, Munchak! All I want is life and a little hope for the future, possibly a little fire from my head coach, and right now it is an ugly work in progress.
So let’s break down the season and take a look into the Super Bowl that may be remembered in the history books as the Blackout in New Orleans and the night Beyonce popped, locked and dropped it. I would much rather have seen a wardrobe malfunction come from Beyonce than Janet Jackson. Man, Beyonce is a sexy lady, Jigga man’s main squeeze.
TV ratings for the blackout-plagued CBS game were down 3 percent from last year’s game, but still the third-most watched telecast in history.
Public records have been released showing that Superdome officials were worried about a power outage months prior to the Super Bowl and the 34-minute outage. Everyone wants to point a finger and try to find the culprit, but we all know that Beyonce dropped that bootie so hard she has to be the one to blame; that bootie was too much and it brought the power in the house down.
So what highlights would you recall from the 2012–13 NFL Season? Some of the things I would like to forget obviously are the Replacement Refs and the lockout that started the whole dirty mess, a bunch of rich men fighting to get richer. I guess you could say that the 49ers got it right benching Alex Smith. I mean, they only made it to the Super Bowl. Remember, Smith wasn’t benched for lack of productivity, but because of injury. It was the easy way out for the coaching staff to not technically bench him and keep the exciting Kaepernick in. It’s a business, and we’ll never know if Smith would have come back after his 6-2 start and done big things. All I know is he will get paid and I believe he will be playing for Coach Reed and the Chiefs next season.
Was this season the Year of the Quarterback? Time will tell. I am just saying you have RGIII in Washington, Luck in Indy, Wilson in Seattle, Kaepernick in San Fran and Dalton in Cincy, and a shaky, inconsistent Locker in Tennessee. Adrian Peterson was the man, and the deserving MVP of the league after coming back hard after a career-threatening torn ACL that would have put down an average man or giraffe. He’s a beast. Peyton Manning takes the Comeback Player of the Year after coming back from some serious surgeries and looking like the Peyton we all know. The New England Patriots may be losing some of that sexiness, but they still can beat up anyone in the AFC East and they finished 12–4, but the league doesn’t fear them like they did in 2008 or during their Super Bowl runs.
The Titans’ season was one to forget with Chris Johnson struggling early and Hasselbeck getting beat up early in the season, only to hand the ball over to Locker, who struggled also, as the team finished 6-10. My biggest beef is with Coach Munchak, who I wish wasn’t returning as head coach. The man, in my opinion, is dull, shows no emotion on the field and in times of bad calls against his team, the man doesn’t get loud, he just stares, and I don’t like it. It’s that simple for me. I hope for the best next season and hope young Jake the Snake Locker can start making those plays I know he can. He can be solid, and I do honestly believe that.
This Super Bowl was a blast for the Train Daddy and I hope your Super Sunday was just as exciting as mine. There is nothing better than good friends, good food, good drinks and a HUGE television. I was lucky enough to get some time away and gather with a group of my friends in a cabin up in the Smoky Mountains for the big game. Let’s just say The Real World had nothing on this gathering. I had my money on the Ravens even though the majority of the people I watched the game with were rooting for the 49ers and growing star Kaepernick. It was a simple decision for me, the Ravens had been playing great postseason football with Flacco at quarterback and veteran receiver Boldin had been unstoppable; no corner matched up against his size and physical ability during the playoff run. I also knew that Ray Lewis was going to go out like Elway. What better way is there to retire than going out and winning a Super Bowl? Lewis has been such an icon and symbol of strength over the years, a killer on and off the field! I am not sold that Lewis is officially retired. I am sure his body is telling him to stop, but I don’t see him staying off the field unless he physically can’t play anymore.
Colin Kaepernick
The 49ers look to have a bright future with Kaepernick, even though I am not sold on running quarterbacks; they always have a few solid seasons and then the league figures them out as they age. Running quarterbacks such as RGIII and Cam Newton have been the hot stories these past two seasons; they are so exciting and unpredictable and now Kaepernick is in that category. What RGIII did for the Redskins this season was phenomenal but one season in and the kid almost ended his career. Running gets you hit more often and harder. A player like Peyton Manning or Tom Brady will get to play to an age of 40 or so and the reason is because they get the ball away quick. Nobody is Superman, and when I break down Kaepernick I see an exciting player that will sell a lot of jerseys and tickets and maybe win a Super Bowl only if it’s in the next five years. It is a simple breakdown for me and has nothing to do with race like some idiots would attempt to claim. Look, if you run, you get hit—and hit hard—often; if you drop back and get rid of the ball you get hit way less often and in return you stay healthy and have a longer career.
This Super Bowl was not the Super Bowl I hoped for, to be honest with you. I hate both of those franchises. My pick was the Denver Broncos to take it all, and it should have been that way if it wasn’t for one awful play on defense. It is what it is what it is, though, and the Ravens are champions of the world. The Super Bowl is a reason to eat very unhealthy food and gather with all your friends and family. You can act stupid, have fun and just go crazy, at least I did. I will say, in my last article, man, my predictions were way off! That was a fluke of uncommon predictions; I’m spot-on typically. I did call for the Ravens to go out first round and I called Flacco the worst quarterback in the playoffs. Now he is the MVP of the Super Bowl. So, I admit I was wrong, kinda!
So everyone, it’s all over whatever team you cheer for, no matter what kind of season they had. No need to worry. The slate is clean; everyone is 0–0 right now and every team is in clean-up mode. Hopefully my Titans will clean up all the issues, come back next season, win the Super Bowl and make me a happy man.
Train’s out the station, Choo Choo!
SUPER BOWL TRIVIA:
$ 4 Million for a 30-second commercial today; $42,000 for a 30-second commercial “1979”
$88,000 Bonus for each player on the winning team and $46,000 for each player on the losing side
Average Super Bowl watcher will consume 1,200 calories during the game
49.2 Million cases of beer are sold on Super Sunday
125 Million Pounds of chicken wings are eaten on Super Sunday
71 Million Pounds of Avocados are eaten on Super Sunday
35% rise in pizza delivery service on Super Sunday
20% rise in antacid sales the day after Super Sunday
The first Super Bowl was held in Los Angeles Jan. 15, 1967, where the Packers defeated the Chiefs 35–10
The Browns, Lions, Jaguars and Texans are the only NFL teams to never play in a Super Bowl
The Vikings have played in 4 Super Bowls and never won the big game
Chuck Haley of the Cowboys is the only player to win the MVP of the Super Bowl while being on the losing team
29–16 record for the team that scores first and oddmakers have a 73% success rate with picking the favorite
The Steelers have won the most Super Bowls with 6 followed by the Cowboys and 49ers with 5 and the Packers with 4
An average of 17 people attend any given Super Bowl party in America
5% of viewers watch the game alone. So Sad
They say we’re unhealthy, but vegetables are the No. 1 Super Bowl food seen at parties
