Well I got the score wrong, but I did pick the winner. Congratulations to all you Steeler fans out there.

Normally, I'd be upset when another team ties or breaks a Cowboy record. But with last night's outcome, Pittsburgh tied Dallas (and San Francisco) for the most Super Bowls wins and I'm okay with that. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that not only do I agree that the Steelers deserved the two wins they got over Dallas ('76 and '79), I think that they waited long enough for the next one (especially after coming so close so many times since). Of course the fact that Dallas beat the Steelers in SuperBowl XXX helps.

Seattle will continue to be a good team since they have Holmgren coaching and a strong nucleus of talent. I have no doubt that they will break the recent trend of Super Bowl losers who failed to evn make the playoffs the next year.

An odd thing I noticed about the games are the scores. Only twice during the XL years the Super Bowl has been played has there been an identical score from another one. In XII, Dallas beat Denver and in XV, Oakland beat Philadelphia, 27-10. In XVII, Washington Beat Miami and in XXX, Dallas beat Pittsburgh, both at 27-17.

Another oddity is that there have only been three rematches. In VII and XVII, Washington played Miami. In X, XIII and XXX, Dallas played Pittsburgh. In XVI and in XXII, San Francisco played Cincinnati. And finally, in XXVII and XXVIII, Dallas played Buffalo.

Considering that there have been XL Super Bowls (I need to stop that), I think those numbers are odd. Of course, most of you will probably acknowledge that it's odd that I think about those things.

One last "homer" note. The Cowboys record for fewest points allowed by an opponent still stands at 3. They set that back in January of 1972 against the Miami Dolphins, in Super Bowl VI. It would be the last Dolphin defeat until the second game of the season two years later.