Super Bowl

Aaaaarrrrgh.

(Amazing that it took me only five days to formulate my reaction with that much precision and concision.)

The Patriots seemed snake-bit from the start. They went down by two points early because of a penalty of a sort that is almost never called, but was called here to stick them with the safety.

Later, but still in the first quarter, they missed a chance to get a turnover because they had an extra man on the field -- a basic communication problem that should have been settled back in the training-camp days of summer.

And so it went, literally down to the game's last seconds.

Bah.