Super Bowl

Michaels and Madden have Seattle in trouble — Pittsburgh in position to force Seattle to use up its timeouts. "Almost home," says Michaels as the Steelers have a third and short. "No different than week one," Bettis is heard saying to his team. First down. "That was a Super Bowl-winning first down," says Madden.
Michaels says [...]

Nice piece with Bettis and Parker on the sideline.
Steelers are on the verge of another score. The game could be getting out of hand. Early in the half, Michaels alluded to Cowher's ability to hang on once he gets a big-enough lead. We'll probably get the elaboration if they score here.
Hummer "Love Is Strange" ad. [...]

Pizza break. Much chatter from the gang-of-four commentators, but the best thing was the shot of Holmgren jawing with the officials. Clarifies a little more the situation right after the half, when ABC tried to interview Holmgren — and got an answer that didn't match the question.
"Addicted to 'Lost' " promo. I'm guilty. The bride [...]

"Mission Impossible 3" ad. Insert your own goofy-Tom-Cruise joke here.
I know there's a lot of football left. Still, if you're ABC and this is your last NFL game for the foreseeable future, wouldn't you want a better one than this?
I hate seeing the Muppets sell things.
Wouldn't you liked to have seen a picture of the [...]

More punting. Madden says both teams look a little tight. Well, maybe if the networks and the NFL didn't delay the game for two weeks and then make the teams sit through hours and days of hype, they'd still be on their playoff rolls.
"V For Vendetta" ad. Is that the Carver from "Nip/Tuck"? Glad he's [...]

Before I switched back over from the DVR to live, I heard Al Michaels saying that everyone and his grandmother has assessed the game. So true. Of course, ABC was putting a lot of that analysis on the air to fill its hours of pre-game coverage. Have you been watching? Isn't pre-game the time for [...]

What is this, karaoke night? Nice period costumes for the folks, but the music mostly isn't doing it. I would have listened to John Legend work through all of "Grapevine" but got nothing from Joss Stone("Signed, Sealed & Delivered") or india.arie ("Dancing in the Street," zzzzzzz). Stevie himself sounded out of breath on "Living for [...]

They're playing a hip-hop song about the Seahawks on ESPN, but ABC is really pushing the whole Detroit/Motown thing. I just wish their song choices weren't so predictable — Jackson 5's "ABC" just now — as if they had just stuck some greatest-hits disc into their player
Maybe they'll try to have some fun during the [...]

And the ESPN and ABC guys are talking about strategies, talking about matchups, talking about thing that will have gone out the other ear sometime in the next 2 1/2 hours,  before the kickoff finally happens.
Oh, there's the Jessica Simpson ad for Pizza Hut. Too bad we already did the Super Bowl grocery shopping. (Just [...]