This game should've been sponsored by Sominex

I remember struggling to stay awake during Super Bowl IX, when Pittsburgh won the first of their six titles in beating Minnesota. 44 years later, I may have been wide awake all through the New England Patriots' 13-3 win over the Los Angeles Rams to claim their sixth title, but I can imagine there were people that might've been bored to tears.

My brother tried to tell me a war of attrition means lots of scoring. No, that's not always the case. A war of attrition usually involves stout defenses like the two we saw, except that the Rams' run defense had leaks in it that they should've closed, but didn't. In the first & fourth quarters, the Patriots' Sony Michel & Rex Burkhead were allowed to run wild, as the Pats used the same run-first strategy that had worked so well during the playoffs. You'd think that with two weeks to prepare, the Rams would've looked at tapes of what happened to the Chiefs & Chargers.

In contrast, the Pats bottled up Todd Gurley, and he & CJ Anderson made only minimal damage between them. The 3-3 halftime score had to be the lowest in Super Bowl history, and anyone that bet the over took a bath. The grand total of 16 points scored was easily the lowest in the history of the game, and considering that it was the 50th anniversary of the Jets' lone title, you'd swear somehow the Jets stole the Patriots' uniforms for 3/4 of the game, it was so bad.

Kidding aside, Stephon Gilmore iced the game for the Patriots by ending the Rams' last gasp drive with an interception. We remember Malcolm Butler doing the same vs. Seattle a few years ago, but he was bum-rushed out of town after being misused last year. I wonder if Gilmore, who came over from Buffalo, has been assured of job security.

From what I've read the Maroon 5 halftime show was nothing to write home about, and my bro & I didn't bother with it. I didn't have the heart to tell him that Maroon 5's set list included something from SpongeBob SquarePants.

On the other hand, the commercial getting the most attention was a crossover between Bud Light's annoying medieval characters and a certain HBO series.......



Second place, in this writer's opinion, goes to Amazon for finding a means to use Harrison Ford.

We know Patriots QB Tom Brady has no plans to retire. Why? Because he wants at least one more ring and make New England the all-time leaders. With six titles, New England is now tied with Pittsburgh. Brady is obsessed with being #1 all-time. News flash. Most of those six titles he has are marked with asterisks because of the allegedly shady tactics used by the Patriots organization, such that this year's snooze-fest was an exception to the rule for the Pats' detractors. as New England didn't play their best game all the way through, either.