Show Pats Top Cats in the SuperB owl Trent Eckman Contributing Writer One of the most exciting Super Bowls ever took place on Sunday with the Carolina Panthers and the New England Patriots fighting until the end This year it lived up to all of the pre-game pre hype and had something for for everybody It even had nad controversy with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake at half- half time That controversy did nothing to overshadow the actual game however The New England Patriots won their second Super Bowl in three seasons seasons seasons sea sea- sons with a 32 29 win over the Carolina Panthers The start of the game lived up to every pre-game pre predl pre pre- dl on def en s e defense defense It was the fifth Super Bowl ever with a scoreless first quarter The teams held each other scoreless for the first twentysix twentysix twentysix ty-six ty minutes Then both teams combined to score 24 points in the last of the first half with New England leading 14 The extended half time seemed to cool both teams off Neither team was able to score in the third quarter and then the floodgates opened in the fourth Each team took shots at each other and the Panthers fought back to tie the game at 29 with just a few minutes to play Perhaps the largest blunder blunder occurred when Panthers kicker John Kasay botched the in suing kick out of bounds giving the ball to the Patriots on the 40 yard line with a minute remain remain- ing Then Super Bowl Tom Brady led the Patriots down the field and into scoring position with nine seconds to go Adam then kicked the winning game-winning field goal with four seconds to go That is the second time in two tries that was able to win the Super Bowl for the Patriots I cant can't say enough about the players said Bill head coach of the Patriots With the second win in three seasons is now one of four active coaches with multiple multiple multiple multi multi- Super Bowl rings Joe Gibbs 3 Mike Shanahan 2 and Bill Parcells 2 are the others The Panthers were on the losing end of the game in their first Super Bowl appearance ever Its one 01 of the worst feelings in the world said Carolina quarterback quarterback quarterback Jake Delhomme Delhomme played brilliantly brilliantly brilliantly bril bril- throwing for yards ands and 3 touchdowns out but it just wasn't enough The Patriots will take the Vince Lombardi trophy home to New England once again agam I I The only negative of the Super Bowl was at the end of the halftime entertain entertain- ment Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake were singing together and at the end of the song Timberlake tore off part of Jacksons Jackson's wardrobe exposing her right breast Im I'm sorry if anyone was offended by br the wardrobe malfunction I Isaid said Timberlake CBS was very upset with the MTV planned halftime MTV also issued an apology and said that the incident was unrehearsed CBS received many phone hone calls from rom angry viewers Executives from CBS said they deeply regret the incident that occurred during the Super Bowl Halftime Show and apologized to those that were offended |