Another good Super Bowl?

It wasn't too long ago that we were waiting for a good Super Bowl game.

Now we're coming off two very entertaining games in a row after last year's improbable finish after David Tyree's nearly impossible catch and tonight's back-and-forth 27-23 win for the Steelers.

Some observations:

Santonio Holmes deserved the MVP award. James Harrison might have lost it with his late personal foul. And Larry Fitzgerald and Kurt Warner could have fought over it if Arizona had won.

Speaking of Warner, when did his wife get all that blond hair?

It was fun watching some of the players on my fantasy teams -- Warner, Holmes, Fitzgerald, Hines Ward, Ben Roethlisberger -- perform (mostly well). It would have been more fun if I were still playing in the league that stretches its playoffs through the Super Bowl. I took a narrow defeat two weeks ago, then had to watch as the owner who picked up Fitzgerald and Warner after my dismissal won our league's Super Bowl easily. Sorry, NFL. I mean our league's big game.

I'd been thinking the Colts and Cowboys in Super Bowl V went into overtime, but now I realize that the merciful game-winning field goal to end a dreadful game came with a few seconds left.

One thing that was a misstatement on the telecast was that the Steelers have more NFL championships than any other team. It's true that Pittsburgh's six Super Bowl titles are the most by any franchise. But there were 46 champions before there was a Super Bowl, and the Packers have a total of 12 NFL championships.

As a Steelers fan since I lived in Pittsburgh as a kid, I was pleased. This was also the most I've watched of any Super Bowl in several years. I missed most of the first quarter while taking a nap and the early part of the fourth quarter after slicing up my finger along with some steak for sandwiches.

I still believe that today's game shouldn't have been close, and wouldn't have been in Pittsburgh's defense hadn't played mostly like crap. Troy Polamalu played as if he had a wager on Arizona. He hit a great middle: the Cardinals covered the spread, and Polamalu got one of those big-ass rings.