Top 5 Worst Super Bowl Moments

It’s two days before Super Bowl XLVIII and I can’t wait.  Not so much that I’m looking forward to the game, it’ll just be another year before I have to listen to all the bullshit that surrounds it.

Don’t get me wrong.  I love the Super Bowl; the game that is.  I’ve just never understood the week-long verbal masturbation that’s shoved down my throat until kickoff.  Maybe it’s because I’m not a degenerate gambler and I think betting money on how many times Peyton Manning yells “Omaha” is ridiculous.  It could be I don’t give a damn what Jerry Seinfeld or any other irrelevant celebrity thinks about Richard Sherman.  It really doesn’t matter.  The media force feeds fans with this nonsense on the fans and it’s almost impossible not to listen (it’s on every damn channel).

I thought about joining the party and giving my opinion on the game (which I’ve don’t the past few years), this year I’m not.  Instead I’m going to honor Super Bowl’s past with a “Top 5 Worst Super Bowl Moments”.

5 – Super Bowl XXV, Scott Norwood – Most people in my generation would probably name this one of the biggest gaffes in the Super Bowl history.  With eight seconds left in the game, Norwood, the Buffalo Bills kicker, lined up for a 47-yard game-winning field goal.  His kick had the distance, but it was wide-right giving the Bills their first of four consecutive losses in the NFL’s Big Game.  Norwood only played one more season before fading away.  If you’re curious he’s a realtor these days.

4 – Super Bowl XXXV, Quarterbacks – This might go down as the worst Super Bowl in history.  At least the Super Bowl with the two worst quarterbacks (Super Bowl XX being a close second).  The Ravens were led by the first-round bust Trent Dilfer and the Giants by the alcoholic-underachieving Kerry Collins.  The Ravens blew the Giants out 31-7, but the quarterbacks had nothing to do with it.  Combined they were 27 for 64 for 265 yards with 1 touchdown and 4 interceptions.  Well done boys…

3 – Super Bowl XXVII, Leon Lett – In the fourth quarter of the game, Lett recovered a fumble on the Cowboy’s 35-yards line and hauled ass toward the end zone.  When he reached the Bills 10-yard line, he began to celebrate.  Before his fat ass made it to the end zone, the ball was knocked out of his hands and was ruled a touchback.  It didn’t affect the game as Dallas won 52-17.  Still, it made Lett look like a jackass.

2 – Super Bowl XX, Super Bowl Shuffle – Technically this didn’t happen at the Super Bowl, but it’s still pretty bad.  The Super Bowl Shuffle was abhorred.  I know there are plenty of people who thought it was funny and maybe it was for some.  For me I don’t like my humor hacky and that’s exactly what it was.  I haven’t seen the video in years (no desire to), but I remember the team swaying to a terrible beat, with Jim McMahon leading the way in his stupid headband and glasses.  That’s something no one needs to see.  If it had any redeeming value it was that it was another time McMahon made an ass out of himself.

1 – Super Bowl XLV, Christina Aguilera – In 2011, Aguilera was set to sing the National Anthem to open Super Bowl XLV in Dallas.  During her performance she his every note right and sounded great.  The problem is she didn’t know the fucking words.  In the fourth line of the “Star-Spangled Banner” Aguilera should have sung “o'er the ramparts we watched”, but instead sung "what so proudly we watched.  Come on.  I’m not even that much of a patriot, and even I know the words to the goddamn song.  There’s no excuse for that.  At least she looked like a fool in front of the biggest worldwide audience she could find.

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