5 Worst Moments from Super Bowl 2012

Super Bowl XLVI was one of the better, more intriguing Super Bowls in NFL history. It featured a heart-stopping finish and lived up to all the hype.

However, there were a few aspects of this game that were, well, pretty darn bad. 

Let's check out the five worst moments of this otherwise tremendous Super Bowl in Indianapolis. 

5. This Pepsi Commercial

Seeing that it was a minute long, does that mean it cost Pepsi Co. $7 million to run this commercial during the Super Bowl?

Odd that Elton John is in it. Who's the girl? Why was the guy singing "Hot in Herre" by Nelly at the beginning? 

Where there's Pepsi, there's music. That's their slogan? OK, Flavor Flav at the end wasn't bad. But wasn't his reality show on TV like five years ago?

Absolutely horrible on so many levels. 

4. Coaching Gaffes/Stupid Penalties

The Patriots and Giants combined for only nine penalties in Super Bowl XLVI, which isn't a bad or embarrassing total, it was the type of penalties that were a bit alarming. 

In the first quarter, with the Giants inside the red zone, the Patriots were called for 12 men on the field on a third-down play in which Victor Cruz fumbled and New England recovered. That's on the coach. 

The Giants were flagged for the same penalty on the Pats' final desperation drive that moved the Hail Mary attempt five yards closer. I'll give Tom Coughlin somewhat of a pass because the play did take a good chunk of time off the clock. 

He doesn't get a pass for Ahmad Bradshaw's game-winning touchdown. 

It wasn't the fact that Bradshaw scored to give the ball back to the Patriots; it was the fact that Coughlin admitted he didn't go over the situation with his team during the timeout right before Bradshaw's TD scamper. 

In the end, I would have rather given Brady the ball, up one with 20 seconds remaining, than up four with 57 seconds left if I'm Coughlin. 

If I'm Bill Belichick, I would have allowed the Giants to score maybe a play earlier? 

3. The Middle Finger to Hundreds of Millions by MIA

No, she didn't have a "wardrobe malfunction."

But rapper/singer(?) MIA did flip off hundreds of millions of people during Super Bowl XLVI's halftime show. 

Stay classy. 

2. Rob Gronkowski Wasn't 100 Percent

I'll always think the Patriots could have thrown Rob Gronkowski's way a bit more than they did, but it stinks that he wasn't at full strength for this one. 

I want both teams to have their full complement of weapons for the Super Bowl. 

He wasn't a liability, but he was visibly slowed by his ankle injury throughout the course of the game and couldn't work the middle of the field. 

Who knows, maybe a healthy Gronkowski reels in that Hail Mary? 

1. Drops

There were many plays that led to the Patriots defeat in Super Bowl XLVI, but we'll remember the drop(s). 

New England had a prime opportunity to put this game away late in the fourth quarter, up two from the Giants' 44-yard line. 

Tom Brady dropped back, and a confused New York secondary allowed Wes Welker, Mr. Reliable, to get wide open in the middle of zone coverage. 

There's a chance Brady lost some of his usual focus on the play because Welker was so wide open, and the throw was a little behind the 5'9'' receiver. 

However, it hit him in the hands and ultimately fell incomplete.

The Pats couldn't covert on 3rd-and-11, and the Giants scored the game-winning touchdown on their next drive.

For fans in New York, this was right behind Mario Manningham's unbelievable catch as the best play of the game. 

Aaron Hernandez had a drop on New England's last drive, too.