Monday, February 06, 2006

Insert (Super, Motown, XL, Satisfaction) pun here

The Super Bowl naturally dominated the morning papers and the talk around town today. Headlines played off the disappointing outcome in various ways: "XL Letdown" in the P-I, where Art Thiel's front-page take was engagingly harsh; "Not this year" in the Times, "Motown Meltdown" in the TNT, etc.

I'd expect even more tomorrow on the officiating. I heard a lot of conspiracy theorists today, which I find astonishing. Some bad calls, sure. But can anybody seriously think that the NFL told the refs to rig the game for the Steelers? That's what several otherwise balanced home-town fans had to say.

A decent riff on the refs appeared in Slate.

And if you can't get enough of the Seattle's-a-nice-place theme, here's a Washington Post story from game day.

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