Alright folks, here's the straight skinny as they say.

If you came onto our site Super Bowl Sunday in search of some witty yet insightful commentary leading up to the big game, you were sorely disappointed. I realize this isn't exactly the best strategy when you're trying to build a consistent traffic base to your website, but you all need to understand one thing: I almost died.

Well, maybe that's a stretch, but it was damn near close. I was laid waste by a sinus infection whose ultimate domination hasn't been seen since the Nazi army steamrolled Europe.

And on Sunday, as I was beginning the recovery process at about the time Mr. Taylor and I had reserved to record what was to be the mother-of-all-Super Bowl media, I was passed out asleep in a medication induced coma.

So you have my apologies.

Now, on with what's happened since my biohazard experience:

For a Super Bowl whose billing was less than spectacular because you just didn't know what you were going to get out of the Arizona Cardinals, I have no complaints whatsoever.

A great ending makes up for the Cardinals getting wedgied by the bigger Steelers in the first half.

I wonder where all the Kurt-Warner-Hall-Of-Fame protagonists are now because if he doesn't throw that absolutely wretched interception at the end of the first half, it's a different story I'm writing.

And secondly, why couldn't one single Cardinal catch up to James Harrison?

I'm at the head of the list who thinks Ben Roethlisberger is overrated, but he shut me up Sunday. Kudos to you, Ben. You have done what few have managed to do: guarantee 6 months of Keith keeping his opinions to himself.

Finally, let's all be honest here: the last play by the Cardinals was an incomplete pass. It probably doesn't change the outcome of the game, but this was an obvious blown call.

What's almost as shocking is that not one Cardinal player has mentioned it that I can find.

....Kobe goes off in MSG on a night where the lights were probably turned off on their title hopes if Andrew Bynum doesn't make it back for the playoffs.

Either Bynum comes back at 100% for at least the Conference Finals, or they have to put Pau Gasol on a dumplings and gravy diet immediately to put some meat on those bones.

....Word is Manny Ramirez is holding out for a multiple year deal and has turned down a 1 year, $25 million offer from the Dodgers.

Hey, Manny, if you've really got that much in the tank, the money will be there next year too.

Maybe you shouldn't have boned your way out of Boston and totally turned teams off the possibility of you hanging around long after you've overstayed your welcome.

That's it for now, podcasts return soon......very soon.
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