Gregg Doyel

Steelers are Super Bowl champions, 27-23.

Great drive by Roethlisberger. Great catch by Holmes. Great finish to a great game.

Steelers don't suck.

But they almost did. Would have been the worst collapse in Super Bowl history. Instead, it was a great finish for a great franchise. No one has won this many Super Bowls. Not six. Only the Steelers.

But it was almost the worst collapse we've ever seen.

And you know you do, Steelers fans. Win or lose, your team sucks. Chokers. How embarrassing.

Tell me I'm wrong.

Chokers.

Arizona 23-20 after that TD by Fitty.

Holy cow the officials are coming around in Arizona's favor with a fever. Calls are going against Pittsburgh now. About time. We'll see if it's enough.

Pittsburgh needs to kill some clock, backed to its 1.

I take my focus off Fitzgerald, and he goes all Tiger Woods on me and takes over. I knew this game somehow would come down to ... me.

Most impressive, Fitty's old man didn't budge on press row when his son scored. I'm sitting five seats down from the man, and I'm telling you, he didn't move. That's his son! I'd be moving. Screw press row etiquette. But I'm unprofessional.

This game finally doesn't suck. Steelers 20-14, 6 minutes left.

Two 15-yard penalties on the same drive against Arizona, neither of them a great call. Or even a good call.

Couple that with the fact that two calls for Pittsburgh have had to be reversed in the replay booth, and you have to wonder what the hell is going on.

The first horrible call on this third quarter drive was the personal foul, facemask, on the Arizona DB ... who did get a handful of Santonio Holmes' facemark. No question. But Holmes had his own hand in the Card's facemask, which means the penalties should have offset.

And then the roughing penalty on Karlos Dansby against Ben Roethlisberger ... weak. Very very weak.

Pittsburgh used those 30 free yards to drive for a field goal that made it 20-7.

Did I mention the officials let Roethlisberger get away with a potential call for grounding?

I'm not mentioning the roughing on Adrian Wilson on the first Steelers field goal. That was a good call. Unintentional penalty, but the right call.

Which means the game officials hate the Cards. Two major calls go against Arizona, and both of them get corrected by replay after that one -- a "fumble" on Kurt Warner -- was ruled an incomplete pass.

So is the fix in for the Steelers on the field? Of course not. It's just a coincidence that replay has overturned two mistaken pro-Pittsburgh calls.

Unless you don't believe in coincidence. Kurt Warner doesn't. He'd tell you that Jesus made sure the call was correct.

That is now two consecutive blasphemous posts. I'm pretty sure I'm going to hell. If there is such a place. And it's not Belle Glade, Fla.

Granted, the handful of game-winning field goals in Super Bowl lore cannot be topped, but has there ever been a bigger play, from scrimmage, in the Super Bowl? No. I think not.

The Cardinals could be leading 14-10 at halftime. Instead the Steelers are winning 17-7. That, if you're not really good in math, is a 14-point swing.

That could be the game. And if it is, then this was the biggest play (from scrimmage) in Super Bowl history. Says me.

By the way, for the duration of the play in question -- Pittsburgh LB James Harrison's 100-yard interception return for a touchdown on the final play of the first half -- Freeman was squeezing my arm like a high school girl at a scary movie. Awww.

Bryan Robinson didn't make a single play in his three years with the Bengals. None. He was so bad, even the Bengals didn't want him.

So of course he just made the first huge defensive play of Super Bowl XLIII, batting a Ben Roethlisberger pass into the air for Karlos Dansby to intercept at the Steelers' 35.

Thanks for showing up, Larry. Nice of you.

Good grief. Has so much ever been written about one person who did so little in such a big game? Not sure about that, but I liked writing the sentence. And I hate watching Fitzgerald on every single play, wondering if this is the play he finally does something. Anything.

Watching Fitty is like watching Tiger Woods. He never wins when I'm watching. When I change the channel, Tiger goes off. I'm going to stop watching Fitty. We'll see if this works.

Did you see that touchdown pass? Warner stumbled dropping back, and in the same motion he corrected his balance, spun and threw a perfect -- not good, but perfect -- pass to Ben Patrick for the touchdown, dropping the ball over Steelers LB Lawrence Timmons' hands.

Crazy good.

Steelers still lead, 10-7.

All this week people -- not me -- have been writing about the most important coordinators in this game: Arizona OC Todd Haley vs. Pittsburgh DC Dick LeBeau.

Oops.

The real story, so far, is Steelers OC Bruce Arians giving a woodshed beating to Cardinals DC Clancy Pendergast. It's 10-0 Steelers because of that mismatch.

Who names their kid Clancy, anyway?

Shame on you, Mike Tomlin. You're the Steelers. That's the Cardinals.

Of course you go for it on fourth-and-goal from the 1.

Of course you do.

Not going sends a gutless message to both sidelines. Pittsburgh just went ahead 3-0, but the Cardinals are now leading this game.

Jennifer Hudson just belted out the national anthem, and she lip-synched it. Had to. That was way, way too good and strong and consistent to be live. Sorry. Lip-syncher.

Nothing wrong with that. But just tell us some day, OK? Like Whitney did, after we busted her.

Gotta hand it to this Super Bowl, though. Gen. Petraus is flipping the coin, the crew from US Airways Flight 1549 that survived a landing into the Hudson River was here, and the Bethune-Cookman band warmed up the crowd before the anthem. And non-football-knowing Bruce Springsteen at halftime.

Solid job. Plus I'm here. Luminaries all around.

I didn't want any comments anyway. Knuckleheads.

Crowd is more like 90-10 Pittsburgh. I'm serious. This place is almost completely yellow, like a cob of corn with a piece of red pepper stuck here and there.

More picnic imagery. Free of charge.

Tailgating is apparently over, an hour (or so) before kickoff. Raymond James Stadium is almost completely full already, easily the earliest-arriving crowd I've ever seen.

It makes sense. Security is so big, and slow, that fans are encouraged to get into the stadium early to ensure they don't miss any action. And they've gotten in early. And it's almost  all Steelers yellow -- 80 percent, easy.

My man Freeman says 60-40, which makes it official:

It's 80-20.