Let’s relax a moment and do some culture-vulture while we pick over last night’s exciting Super Bowl. Congrats to the Kansas City Chiefs and Texas Tech Red Raider Patrick Mahomes (that shout out is for my little sprout, who is an alum). My team wasn’t in it, so I had absolutely no care as to who won or lost. But here are some highly questionable opinions you may or may not share.

1. It was a good football game, which is what is important. Either team could have won given the bounce of a ball or missed tackle here or there. That is the way it should be in the championship.
2. Someone needs to see if Tom Brady DNA was used to maybe, somehow, clone Patrick Mahomes. He has such Brady rip-your-heart-out vibes.
3. Usher isn’t really my vibe, but the roller-skates were impressive. Very impressive. The man is 45 years old. Forty. Five.
4. The best commercial — Ney-Bah.
5. The worst commercial — Whatever that was with Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Jennifer Lopez, and Tom Brady.
6. The Jesus commercials — He Gets Us — those are very controversial today and opinion is all over the spectrum. Let me tell you a story: I have four photographs that hang on my wall in my study at the church building. One of them is of Charles Haddon Spurgeon, who was once called the prince of preachers. Spurgeon was famous for starting controversies just to keep things interesting. Controversy isn’t always bad. Maybe those Jesus Commercials worked far better than anyone thinks.
7. Did anyone else notice a bunch of extra looking referees with black shirts carrying duffle bags? I’ve never seen that before in my life and I have yet to see any kind of explanation. Weird. At least I thought it was weird.
8. Jim Nantz sounded tired and Tony Romo needs a little coaching. He is still mostly good, but he needs a little coaching on when to be quiet.
9. I am very happy for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, and I hope they live a long happy life together. However, I really don’t think I like that Kelce guy. He seems way too intense for me. Way.
10. The worst decision I’ve seen in a Super Bowl since Pete Carroll decided to not give the ball to Marshawn Lynch was Shanahan choosing to take the ball first in overtime and then, somehow, thinking Patrick Mahomes wouldn’t go down the field and get a touchdown. All of North America knew that was going to happen. Come on Shannahan, Mahomes is like Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl. A coach’s job is to put the players in a position to win the game, and he put his in a position to lose it, which is what they did.