Sports

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Today I am back to talk about the National Trail Conference Tournament and the results of it. Also going to talk about the Super Bowl and the commercials. Two blogs ago I said the championship game would come down to the Wooden Shoes and the Bulldogs and that the game would be very intense.

I could not be anymore right on my opinion about the championship game. These two teams did face each other after the Wooden Shoes dismantled the Altamont Indians in the semifinals by 25. The game which was seen by over 1200 people in the stands was not close at all as the Indians had no answer for the Shoes offense. The bulldogs on the other side ended up also destroying there opponent by 20 points. The Stewardson Strasburg Comets also could not handle the out pour of offense by bulldogs.

So the matchup was set the Bulldogs and Shoes in the finals. The Shoes led most of the game, and there biggest lead was no bigger than five at any time during the game. The Bulldogs ended up taking the lead in the final three minutes of play off a three point shot by sophomore Marty Jansen. Jansen led the dogs in the fourth quarter with ten points as the Shoes could not stop him at all. The Shoes did keep with them until the final minute of play as each team switch leads. The Shoes had set up a play with 16.4 seconds left to go to pull ahead, but could not convert on it as Senior forward John Runde was stripped of the ball by Marty Jansen with three point eight seconds left to go. The Shoes fouled immediately and Jansen missed the free throw, and the Shoes down by one point had a chance to take the lead, but could not as there shot was missed giving the Bulldogs the win and the Championship. The game was back and forth the whole time and electricity in the building was off the charts as over 1,500 fans came to root on there teams. You could not have ask for a better championship game and tournament. The 3rd place game belong to the Altamont Indians who beat the Comets by nine points and last but not least the Neoga Indians beat the Browstown Bombers by five points in the Consolation Championship game. So all the games on the final day were really intense and were close just proving how good the teams are in the National Trail Conference.

On to Super Bowl 43, which the Pitsburgh Steelers won 27 to 23 over the Arizona Cardinals. This game as well went down to the wire and was also a back and forth game. Down at haltime 20 to 7, the Cardinals finally figured out the Steelers defense in the second half scoring two touchdowns from Larry Fitzgerald. With two minutes left to go though the Cardinals thought they had the Super Bowl wrapped, but not so fast as Ben Roethlisburger led the steelers on an 80 yard drive which was also led by the MVP of the Super Bowl Santonio Holmes. Holmes caught five of the six passes from Roethlisburger on the final drive and eventually the game winner in the endzone giving the Steelers the 27 to 23 win and there sixth Super Bowl win in their franchise. The game was really exciting, and I was on my feet for the final three minutes as I wanted the Cardinals to win so bad, but that is not the case as you have to give credit to the Steelers for keeping their poise and coming back.

The game was watched by over 11o million viewers worldwide, and they were treated to the Super Bowl commercials. In my opinion, I think the commercials were alright, but their was some really dumb ones in the mix. The ecoimagionation.com ads were really stupid, and I did not understand them at all. The commercial I like the best was the the first commercial which was the Miller Lite advertisement. My second favorite ad was the cheetos. These commercials had me laughing really hard because of how funny they were.

Well that is going to wrap up today's edition of the ritzbitz blog. Coming up next time I am going to talk about another sport that I like to watch and that is the game of hockey. Until then hopefully every has a great time.