Santonio Holmes Gets High…light of Super Bowl 43 With Game-Winning Catch, MVP Award
I guess it is fitting that on the same day the sports world was rocked by the emergence of the Michael Phelps bong pictures that Santonio Holmes was the biggest star on the biggest stage in Super Bowl 43.
You may remember that earlier this season Santonio Holmes was busted for marijuana possession. To his credit, Santonio took full responsibility and came forward during Super Bowl week with a very candid account about his childhood in Florida and the year he spent dealing drugs. He said that he wanted to use his story as an example of what kids who look up to him should not do.
Well, Santonio Holmes will have an even grander stage to be a role model and a positive influence now, as he has forever etched his name among Super Bowl immortals with an amazing 9 rec, 131 yard, 1 TD performance on the way to the MVP award of Super Bowl 43.
And no catch was bigger than the one you can watch below, which effectively clinched the sixth Super Bowl title for the Pittsburgh Steelers and the MVP award for Holmes. (Special thanks to the great Robert Littal over at Black Sports Online for the video.)
Congratulations to Santonio Holmes, who became the sixth WR ever to be named Super Bowl MVP, joining teammate Hines Ward. Holmes certainly proved his resiliency by making the superb catch above one play after letting another game-clincher slip through his outstretched fingers.
As a Browns fan, it’s never pleasant watching the Steelers win the Super Bowl. But I have to tip my hat to Santonio Holmes, Mike Tomlin, Ben Roethlisberger, James Harrison, and the entire Steelers team. They had the toughest schedule in the NFL and fought off a very determined Arizona Cardinals team tonight. The Steelers earned it, and and can now lay claim to six Super Bowl titles, more than any other franchise in NFL history.
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Midwestsportsfans:
Why should Cleveland Browns and Ohio State Buckeye fans take some credit for the Pittsburgh Steelers 27-23 Super Bowl victory over Arizona?
Because the Steelers’ biggest playmakers in the sports world’s largest stage are from Ohio.
• As Jrod wrote in his great video-enhanced coverage, wide receiver Santonio Holmes, of Ohio State, earned the game’s MVP award with nine catches for 131 yards and snatched the 27-23 Pittsburgh win with an acrobatic 6-yard TD pass with 35 seconds left.
“We’re going down in history with one of the greatest games ever played in the Super Bowl,” Holmes said. “We finished it up the way we needed to and brought another championship back to Pittsburgh.”
• Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, of Findlay and Miami (Ohio), led his team on the final drive, moving the Steelers — with Holmes’ help — for 78 yards in 2:02.
Roethlisberger won the Super Bowl for the second time in five years. He redeemed his sub-par performance in the 2005 Super Bowl game, throwing for 256 yards on 21-of-30 passing.
The Browns had the chance to draft Big Ben, but passed on him. From now on, the Browns might want to consider drafting Ohio born and bred players, first. (Buckeye QB Chris Wells, and Brian Robiskie in 2010.)
• Linebacker James Harrison, of Kent State, had the play of the game before the final histrionics, shifting the momentum away from the Cardinals. The pick came as Kurt Warner was poised to take a 14-10 lead before half-time. (Browns kick-off and punt returner, running back and all around play-maker Josh Cribbs also played for the KSU Golden Flashes — and was undrafted.)
Sfter the interception Harrison, the NFL Defensive Player of the Year, ran 100 yards for a touchdown on the last play of the first half. It was the longest play in Super Bowl history.
Harrison’s return for a touchdown caused NBC’s Bob Kostas to remark that it didn’t seem like Harrison was “born to run.”
“It was very tiring, but it was all worth it,” said Harrison, who also was credited with two hits on Warner. “I was just thinking that I had to do whatever I could to get to the other end zone and get seven. I just wanted to help my team win, that was it. That was all I was thinking about.”
If it weren’t for Ohio’s strong football tradition and work ethic, Holmes, Roethlisberger and Harrison might not have made such a difference in Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Hmmm … I wonder when they become free agents?
Randy Lerner, what’s in your wallet?
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Well gosh Midnight, I guess then all those Ohio players you listed would be (just a little) compensation for all the greats the Pittsburgh area produced.
Not that I want to get into a name-dropping contest, but you know… the Dolphins, who can thank us for Pittsburgh Central Catholic High product Dan Marino. The 49ers, who owe their dynasty to Pittsburgh Ringgold High product Joe Montana. Dallas, which wouldn’t have had a running threat during their Doomsday run if not for Pittsburgh Hopewell High product. I mean I could go on and on, but I think you get the point.
That said — how ‘BOUT those Steelers! Oh yeahhhhhhhhhhhh!
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You don’t see the replays of Santonio Holmes’s “catch?” from the backside because his left foot is resting on his right foot and not the ground.
No catch, no touchdown!
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steeler3mi Reply:
February 24th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
@sa, “…Left Foot Resting on his Right Foot…” You are an idiot. If ANYTHING, you mean HIS RIGHT FOOT resting on his Left Foot however, that is INCORRECT. All that is required for a catch in the NFL is: Posession of the ball (he had it) AND both feet (or portion of, as in toes) IN BOUNDS with POSESSION. His Left Foot was down and his Right Foot (toe) tapped just prior to him falling. Touchdown. All the whining in the world doesn’t change the fact that he scored and game over.
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