The commercials weren't all that great, either.   There seemed to be many more movie trailers and network show previews than ever before.

The Doritos ultrasound/delivery was the best, followed by the singing sheep and "meet the ketchup".

Kudos to Budweiser for  "don't drive impaired"; and to whoever sponsored the "close the faucet".

Halftime, was, as the Pennsylvania Dutch say, "about half":    Great opening, decent closing, with nothing but noise in the middle.

Rongone wrote:

I agree. I thought that was one of the worst played super bowl I've ever seen, and I've seen them all. I'm not saying that because I picked Carolina. I just think both teams played sloppily.
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Being of similar vintage (and having seen them all, too) I can remember when the Super Bowl was sometimes called the "super dud" because one wondered how the teams ever got there. 

The sheer number of penalties tonight must have been near-record.
 

Just Fred wrote:

All in all, it appeared to me to be a case of two good defenses playing very well.  It wasn't one of those 35-32 games with alot of explosive offensive plays.  To make a comparison to baseball, it would be like watching a great pitching duel with the final score something 2-1 instead of a 9-8 slugfest.

Most sports fans want a back-and-forth scoring extravaganza. 

This game belonged to the defenses, and Vaughn Miller deserved the MVP.

Agree. I think a lot of people are used to the "offensive shows" that get normally put on by teams that have excellent quarterbacks such as Cam. Wade Phillips did one heck of a job in prepping his team to defense Cam as well as Carolina's running game. You cannot expect to contain a QB like Cam the whole game and Denver did not entirely, but did an overall defensive job to make Cam the only game and they shut him down enough to make Carolina look tepid. Manning's great days as a QB are long over, but his years of playing the game held him in good stead to lead the win. Kubiak and Phillips knew that Manning could no longer carry the team on his shoulders (much like Cam with all his skills) and built at team that did not rely on the QB. It paid off. In a way, I felt sorry of Cam, he took the loss hard and it showed. Hope it does not stay in his head and ruin him from becoming one of the greatest in the game. 
 

Agree with you about the penalty thing, especially associated with personal fouls.  I believe the college rule is a second or third personal foul/unsportsmanlike conduct penalty is an automatic ejection.