Wide Left: Super Bowl, Eli Manning, Tom Brady, Commercials, Playmates & Twitter

Our Monday show covers five topics in (roughly) five minutes for each topic, starting today with the Super Bowl, of course.

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Nick Tarnowski and I break down the game, focusing much of our conversation on the pass that got away from Tom Brady, as he had a wide-open Wes Welker on a fourth-quarter play that probably would have sealed the victory for the Patriots.

Instead, it was Eli Manning who delivered the big play when his team needed it. 

Upon Further Review

Now the conversation can officially begin: is Eli Manning a Hall of Fame caliber quarterback? We have the conversation every year about Ben Roethlisberger, and now Eli has just as many rings and two more Super Bowl MVPs, not to mention better career passing numbers.

Heck, if Donovan McNabb is a "borderline" Hall of Famer, a second Super Bowl has to vault Eli over him.

It's not just Eli, either. What does this do for Tom Coughlin's legacy?

If Bill Parcells was wrongly kept out of the Hall of Fame this year, does that mean Coughlin will eventually be considered, as he now has the same number of Super Bowls and almost the same winning percentage as the Tuna?

Nick and I also discuss the game-winning touchdown to wonder if Ahmad Bradshaw should have taken a knee or if he did the right thing by scoring. At the very least, his indecision created an interesting game-winning score.

Commercials

Nick and I run through our list of the best and worst commercials, most of which you can already see in this write-up. In short, we loved Clint Eastwood and the cheetah, liked peeing in the pool and the fat dog and hated the vampires and E*Trade baby.

There's more, but those are some highlights.

Hello, The Media

Darren Rovell Drives a Dodge Stratus. 

CNBC sports business reporter and friend of the show Darren Rovell got into a pretty heated exchange with—well—everyone on the Internet this weekend after tweeting his thoughts about the general lack of attractive women at the Playboy Super Bowl party. 

Most notably, Rovell found himself in a fight with one of the women at the party, model and Internet icon Jamie Edmonson. Not only did Edmonson put Rovell in his place after his comment, but so did writers like Richard Deitsch and Jimmy Traina of Sports Illustrated and athletes like Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Evan Longoria.

To date, I'm not sure one person in Rovell's 177,000-plus Twitter followers has come to his defense.

Deadspin has the highlights of the exchange here and here. The worst thing for Rovell in this whole exchange was that he dug in his heels after getting backlash, trying to justify his tweets as commentary on Playboy's bad business model, not a complaint about the party he got into for free.

His justification didn't make it any better.

It didn't really hurt Rovell's following on Twitter, so it's not like anything will be learned from this situation. Except, of course, we don't expect Rovell to get that free invite to the Playboy party next year.

We know that everyone is recapping the Super Bowl today, so we hope you spend a little time enjoying our silly recap too.

There is so much noise out there, we genuinely appreciate you taking the time to share in ours. Leave your thoughts on any of the topics in the comments, and thanks for listening.