Stupor Bowl: Tell me again that the NFL game is more exciting than the college game. Tell me that the Rose Bowl game wasn't more exciting than every NFL playoff game. Tell me that the Pioneer PureVision Las Vegas Bowl wasn't better; that the Sheraton Hawaii Bowl (final score 49-48); Motor City Bowl (final score: 39-38) and I could go on and on. The Super Bowl was dull and the dullness was compounded by the worst officiating in years. The fake pass interference call and that "blocking below the waist" call on a tackle, are just two examples of the lousy NFL officiating that carried over from the playoff officiating.

But the fact of the matter is that the NFL has become dull dull dull. What the game needs are two new rules. 1: Permit any shift, meaning any so long as one second elapses from the time of the shift until the snap of the ball a rule that would open the game up in a big way. Rule 2. A tackle or guard eligible would not have to report it to the refs. The Super Bowl exposed both the dullness of the game and the awful officiating for all to see.