Admit it. Pittsburgh and the under were the rights sides of the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not a lot of solace for anyone who played the Steelers -7 and \/ or under 46.5.<\/p>\n
In fact, those tickets are as worthless as the majority of the Super Bowl commercials. (Lame.)<\/p>\n
But there shouldn\u2019t be a single “I told you so” from anyone who bet the Cardinals and the over.<\/p>\n
View Ben Burns Weekly Picks —><\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Twice, the Steelers were unable to punch it in from inside the Arizona five-yard line. So much for that hard-nose, physical Pittsburgh brand of football.<\/p>\n On the opening possession, Ben Roethlisberger\u2019s 21-yard completion to Heath Miller set up a first and goal at the Cardinals\u2019 one-yard line. The Steelers settled for a field goal, after a challenge correctly took away Roethlisberger third-down scramble that was initially ruled a touchdown.<\/p>\n It happened again in the third quarter, with the Steelers leading 17-7.<\/p>\n A penalty on Arizona\u2019s Adrian Wilson gave Pittsburgh a 1st and goal at the four. Three plays later, Steeler backers had to watch Jeff Reed trot out for a field goal that kept the Cardinals within one score of covering.<\/p>\n But while Steelers backers were grimacing with each goal-line failure, under players were wearing an ear-to-ear grin. Clearly, the under was in very good shape.<\/p>\n Eventually, Fitzgerald got loose. In the fourth quarter, the Cardinals began to attack the middle of the field against the Steelers\u2019 two-deep safety defense. (What took so long?)<\/p>\n Fitzgerald caught four passes on Arizona\u2019s 87-yard drive in the fourth quarter. Fitzgerald would score again, splitting Pittsburgh\u2019s safeties for a 64-yard go-ahead touchdown with 2:37 to play.<\/p>\n That set up Roethlisberger and Santonio Holmes\u2019 heroics. The two hooked up on a six-yard touchdown with 35 seconds left to push the total over.<\/p>\n Possibly the worst part for those who had the under is knowing that it wasn\u2019t Fitzgerald or Holmes that killed them; instead, it was an offensive lineman.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh center Justin Hartwig was flagged for holding in the end zone with 2:58 to play. It negated a first down completion to Holmes that would have put the Steelers in kneel-down mode.<\/p>\n Condolences:<\/strong> To those who bet the Cardinals at +110 to score last in the first half. Arizona scored with 8:34 left in the second quarter. The Cardinals then drove down to the Pittsburgh 2 with 10 seconds left in the half. If Arizona settles for a field goal or doesn\u2019t score at all, Cardinals to score last was a winner \u2026 unless James Harrison picks off Kurt Warner and rumbles 100 yards, breaking tackles along the way, and scores a touchdown.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n Admit it. Pittsburgh and the under were the rights sides of the Super Bowl. That\u2019s not a lot of solace for anyone who played the Steelers -7 and \/ or under 46.5…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[9315,2390,9155,9147,9144,9146,9145,9159,9157,9163,9164,540,9316,830,9152,1157,9161,9151,9160],"class_list":["post-8009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-handicapping","tag-bad-beats","tag-ben-burns","tag-ben-burns-free-picks","tag-ben-burns-handicapping","tag-ben-burns-picks","tag-ben-burns-predictions","tag-ben-burns-sports-picks","tag-burns-bad-beats","tag-covers","tag-experts-picks","tag-free-winning","tag-guaranteed-picks","tag-ncaa-hoops-betting-analysis","tag-nfl-handicapping","tag-respected-sports-monitors","tag-sports-handicapping","tag-sports-handicapping-experts","tag-sports-monitor","tag-todays-guaranteed-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8009"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8012,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8009\/revisions\/8012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHeading into the fourth quarter, Pittsburgh led 20-7. Larry Fitzgerald had just one catch, and the Steelers appeared to be in protect-the-lead mode on offense.<\/p>\n<\/a>His leaping one-yard touchdown grab capped the drive and made the score 20-14 with 7:33 to play.
\nStill, at that point, anyone who had the over would have gladly traded. Isn\u2019t that the truest sign of a bad beat, if the eventual winning side would have switched sides with under 10 minutes to go?<\/p>\nClick here to\u00a0See More from Ben Burns – Including \u00a0His Free Picks + Expert Selections!!!<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"