Steelers/ Packers game

All the NFL analysts can breathe a deep sigh of relief. They won't have to scramble around for adjectives like tough, gritty, big, large, rapist...no wait... well you know what I mean. All of those words they use to describe Big Ben's game. Basically they are all afraid to say that Big Ben is an overrated quarterback who is helped out by the fact that he happens to have a first class seat on the Dynasty airline that is the Pittsburgh Steelers. Seriously, without the best defense of the past decade we are never discussing Big Ben and the Super Bowl, let alone the Hall of Fame. Now that he has mailed in 2 poor performances in his 3 Super Bowl appearances, the NFL pundits won't have to worry about justifying Ben Rapelisberger's worthiness of the Hall.

What this game has proven is that it really does not matter where you finish in the NFL at the end of the season. No matter your ranking, if you’re hot at the right time you are unstoppable. The Packers defense came together at the right time this year and Aaron Rodgers elevated his play to levels we have only seen with legends. Brett Favre must have been steaming hot mad down there in Mississippi. No sex from Jen Sterger, no sex from his wife and Aaron Rodgers took a dump on his legacy. Everyone is already forgetting about Brett and all that he did in Green Bay. If Aaron Rodgers demanded to wear # 4 next year the Packers wouldn't be able to stitch on his name over Favre's any faster.

The game went somewhat as expected. In the end it was close and the Steelers, ever resilient, almost pulled off a great come back. It's so cliché but turn-over’s are really the cards that do the tricks. You can't win games when you're giving the other team the ball. Ben Roethlisberger threw 2 picks...one was downright abominable and Big Ben paid for his terrible throw by having it taken back to the house.

Mendenhall rushed very well for the Steelers, scoring on a nice touchdown run, but he coughed it up when it mattered the most. Defensive POY snub Clay Matthews buried him and stripped the ball late in the game, during a pivotal Steelers drive. The actual POY award winner, Troy Polamalu, was terrible the entire game. The only time we ever saw him was when he was getting his cookies baked by Greg Jennings in the corner of the end zone.

I think what we can ultimately take from this game is that A: Big Ben is terribly over rated. (Actually people just pretend he's a really good quarterback because he wins...but remember it’s a team sport.)  and B: Aaron Rodgers is well on his way to being the cream of the league in terms of quarterbacking. He dismantled the best defense in the league with ease. He made 4th receiver Jordi Nelson look like an All-Pro against the Steelers. The Pack is young and next year you will most definitely see the championship belt being rocked in the end zone on a regular basis.