sportsline.com - 2/4/2008
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10:03 p.m. ET GLENDALE, Ariz. -- For 52 minutes this was one of the worst Super Bowls in a long, long time. And then it became great. Tom Brady drives the Patriots 80 yards for an efficient, cold-as-ice touchdown to give New England a 14-10 lead with 2:42 to play. Eli Manning drives the Giants to midfield, then muscles and spins his way out of a third-down sack and throws a long pass up for ...
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Gregg Doyel : As Suave A Pop Critic As He Is A Live Blogger
Can't Stop The Bleeding —
... using his SB XLI press pass for the all important purpose of Googling personal details about Deadspin commentators who’d been trashing him. In what can only be considered a small sign of progress, Doyel has moved on from such (ahem) petty concerns…to trashing 8 thousand year old Tom Petty. ...
Gregg Doyel would have really preferred some Nickelback
The Postmen // A Sports Blog // Chicago, IL. —
... a monster version of Purple Rain. It was the highlight of the evening, especially considering how bad the quality of play on the field was.
Last night, well, transcendent wasn’t really the word. Maybe … solid. Workmanlike. But that’s what Tom Petty is. He’s a workmanlike performer with workmanlike songs, and workmanlike people tend to be Tom Petty’s most devoted fans. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Unless, of course, you’re Gregg Doyel, and you prefer “epically shitty” to ...
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