{"id":11037,"date":"2009-02-02T16:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ron_cook_simply_put_super_bowl_xliii_the_best\/"},"modified":"2009-02-02T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:00:06","slug":"ron_cook_simply_put_super_bowl_xliii_the_best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11037","title":{"rendered":"Ron Cook: Simply put, Super Bowl XLIII the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some might argue there have been better Super Bowls. Legendary quarterback Joe Willie Namath, who handed the Lombardi Trophy to Steelers owner Dan Rooney after the confetti fell last night, played in a pretty remarkable one in Super Bowl III, leading the New York Jets past the ridiculously favored Baltimore Colts. Much more recently, the New York Giants stunned the world by upsetting the unbeaten New England Patriots last year in Super Bowl XLII.<\/p>\n<p>But this one beat &#8217;em all.<\/p>\n<p>Four scores in the final 7 minutes, 33 seconds? Arizona going from 20-7 down to 23-20 ahead in &#8212; what &#8212; a blink of the eye? Roethlisberger leading the Steelers 78 yards in the final two minutes-and-change to win it on wide receiver Santonio Holmes&#8217; fabulous 6-yard touchdown catch with 35 seconds left?<\/p>\n<p>You gotta be kidding.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.post-gazette.com\/pg\/09033\/946358-87.stm\">Certainly it was one of the best, anyway.  Read it all<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some might argue there have been better Super Bowls. Legendary quarterback Joe Willie Namath, who handed the Lombardi Trophy to Steelers owner Dan Rooney after the confetti fell last night, played in a pretty remarkable one in Super Bowl III,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11037\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}