FOOTBALL
New England
wins Super Bowl 49
If there is such a thing as the worst play call in Super Bowl
history then it might be when Seattle was on the "you carry it
in from here" 1 yard line in the closing seconds of Super Bowl
XLIX and instead of handing it to the nearly unstoppable
Marshawn Lynch for the win, QB Russell Wilson tossed an
interception to New England's Malcolm Butler giving the
Patriots a 28 to 24 win. Matching Hall-of-Fame
quarterback Joe Montana on the way to his third Super Bowl MVP
honors, New England QB Tom Brady completed 37 of 50 passes for
328 yards.
Pats bury Indy & Seattle sends the
Packers packing
The only way for the
New England Patriots to take the air completely out of an
overwhelming 45-7 victory over the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC
championship game was to spend the days which followed mired in
scandal. Patriot Coach Bill Belichick and QB Tom Brady each
claimed in separate news conferences that they did not know how
11 of 12 footballs used by the Pats in the championship game
were under-inflated in violation of league rules. Sports-talk
radio and television followed up by spending endless hours
speculating how the under-inflated footballs were easier for the
Pats to toss and catch than the correctly inflated footballs the
Colts were using. In stark contrast to the lop-sided no contest
between New England and Indy, the NFC Championship game between
Green Bay and Seattle saw the Seahawks, who were down 19-7 with
less than 4 minutes remaining, pull off a most unlikely 28-22
overtime win. The Packers dominated most of the contest, but a
botched onside kick reception at mid-field gave QB Russell
Wilson (right) and the Seahawks the chance they needed to
advance to the Super Bowl.
The Ohio State Buckeyes
stun Oregon 42 to 20
Underdogs no more, the Ohio State
University Buckeyes became college football's top dog in college
football's first ever true national championship. The Buckeye's
earned their way to the big game by clipping Alabama's wings 42
to 35. Having disposing of collegiate football's number 1
ranked team, the Buckeyes went after Oregon whose fast-paced
offense was supposed to be more than OSU Coach Urban Meyer's
young squad could handle. Oregon's Heisman Trophy winning
quarterback Marcus Mariota came out burning down yards as usual
and scored quickly in the game's opening minutes, but OSU's
defense stiffened, three times forcing the Ducks' offense off
the field with only three points or none. The Buckeye offence
featured Ezekiel Elliot (right) whose 246 yards and 4 touchdowns
fueled OSU's 42 to 20 victory. The Cinderella story of the
night was 3rd string Ohio State Quarterback Cardale
Jones' impressive 38 yards rushing, 242 yards passing and 2
touchdowns. All totaled, OSU racked up 538 yards. Credited
with engineering the Buckeye victory are head coach Meyer and
his staff faced with regrouping after losing to injury during
the course of the season, their first and second string
quarterbacks.
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