The Super Bowl has come and gone to wrap up another season in the NFL. And to quote the greatest play-by-play announcer I’ve ever heard (ABC’s Keith Jackson), “it was a dandy.”

The New York Giants capped off one of those improbable seasons with a win over the New England Patriots, and no matter who you are a fan of–it was a great game that kept you on the edge of the seat until the end, because the two quarterbacks on the field have done the miraculous come-from-behind-to-win-at-the-end thing a few times in their careers.

Plus, I think its great that Eli Manning has shown everyone that he can surpass his big brother, winning his second championship ring in the town that hosts Peyton’s team. There is something magical about that kind of a storyline in the sports pages.

The other great contest of the year is over too. That, being of course who would have the best Super Bowl TV commercial.

Given that the Super Bowl is usually the biggest thing on television each year, drawing the largest audience of any television program, and often rates in the highest television audiences of all time, and given this Super Bowl featured teams from two of the largest television markets in the country–well the competition was bound to be tough.

And there were some interesting match-ups here too:

Jerry Seinfeld’s reprise of “Seinfeld” moments to be the backdrop for his efforts to be the first in line to buy Acura’s new NSX sports car was cool, and a bit more inventive that Matthew Broderick trying to recapture the “Ferris Bueller” moments of his youth for Honda’s CR-V.

Betty White shilling for “The Voice”, was better than Regis Philbin shilling for Pepsi Max.

Victoria’s Secret Super Model Adriana Lima was sexier for Teleflora florists than Adriana Lima was for Kia’s Optima.

The oh-so-incredibly-hot Italian speaking woman for Fiat was way sexier than the annual ham handed sexist use of Danica Patrick and Jillian Michaels for GoDaddy.com

The latest version of the E*Trade baby was as stale as day old infant puke, though the latest version of the talking MM’s was worth a chuckle.

Budweiser proved again that it knows how to make a Super Bowl commercial that is something special–and worth the millions they paid for the airtime.

And finally, I don’t know how much it cost for the two minutes that Chrysler took to have Clint Eastwood remind us of why Americans bought into Ronald Reagan’s “Morning In America” political commercial 33 years ago, but “Dirty Harry” himself telling us that “It’s Halftime, America” was just jingoistic enough, just patriotic enough, and just beautiful enough to almost get me to go buy one of their cars. I

Yeah, it’s probably my favorite Super Bowl commercial since Apple introduced the Macintosh with the all time best Super Bowl commercial, “1984” in the same year.

The same year “the Gipper” began his second term in office.

(You can watch all of the Super Bowl commercials, if you missed them in real-time, and vote for your favorites by clicking Right Here.)

In the National Football League, when there is a replay challenge to a call made by the officials, the head guy in the zebra striped shirt makes his way to the little “instant photos while you wait” looking booth on the side of the field to watch the replays for a period of time (sometimes longer than others) and then he comes out to the field to face the cameras and turn on his microphone to announce the “verdict”.

That usually consists of either saying that “The call on the field stands”, which means “we were right, or we can’t see anything that proves we were wrong–or we just got lucky on this one.” The other answer is “The call on the field has been reversed.” Both statements from the head referee are usually followed by a not always clear explanation of exactly what happened on the video replay.

Today, the leadership of the Susan G. Komen Foundation went with that second answer and said they wanted to “apologize to the American public for the recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.” The decisions were about the ending of future grants to Planned Parenthood to cover cancers screenings and mammograms to low income women.

And those decisions touched off what could only be described as a true shitstorm.

Give the Komen folks some credit for realizing what they had wrought. They heard a lot of negative reaction and reacted (finally) to that.

But TalkingPointsMemo.com reports that the Komen Foundation’s position has not been completely reversed. What today’s move accomplishes is that Planned Parenthood won’t be necessarily barred from receiving a grant from the Komen Foundation just because a spurious Congressional investigation into Planned Parenthood is underway.

What Komen didn’t say was that they will definitely get any future grants. That’s called leaving the back door open…just in case.

For its part, Planned Parenthood’s President, Cecile Richards says she is taking the Komen folks “at their word”, and believing that the grant funding will not be cut in the future.

It will be more than a little interesting to see if the many people who gave their time and money to the Komen Foundation’s “Race for the Cure” will take them “at their word” as well.

Because sometimes in life, just like in the NFL, even after the replay–you still don’t agree with what the final outcome of the game was.