As families of football fans, casual fans and people just waiting for the halftime show all gathered around the television expecting a great end to the NFL season, they instead may have actually been snoring through till the end.

The Super Bowl is one of the greatest sports spectacles in the history of American sports. When you turn on the TV, you look forward to epic moments, great plays, an entertaining halftime show, and an even more entertaining ending.

Unfortunately, this year's game had little to none of any of those elements that make a game of this magnitude something special.

Let's start with the lack of epic moments. Just focusing on the Patriots, who have played in four of the last five Super Bowls, there was always an amazing moment that got fans out of their seats no matter what team they played against. Whether it be the Malcolm Butler interception at the goal line against the Seattle Seahawks, the 24-point comeback against the Atlanta Falcons, or the Super Bowl record 505 passing yards by Tom Brady in the loss against the Eagles, the Patriots have not given us a weak championship game since their first one ironically against the St. Louis Rams back in 2001.

The Super Bowl has always been one of those games where you expect something absolutely mind-blowing or ridiculous to happen. I understand that defensive football is great to watch when after a season of millions of flags being thrown for ticky-tack fouls, we finally get to see some hitting, but we did not even really get that. No big hits. No pancake blocks. Nothing at all.

Then there is the halftime show.

A little while after the game I saw a hilarious tweet that said, "I wonder how it feels to pay $3000 for a Maroon 5 concert and a field goal." As petty as it may seem, it's the truth. When the halftime show performers were announced, there was not even a lot of hype around it, except for maybe the fact that Maroon 5 was going to be headlining.

When halftime finally came around, Big Boi and Travis Scott only performed one song apiece while Maroon 5 basically carried the entire show.

Also, as a fan of Spongebob, I can't sit here and lie that I was not a little salty about them not letting the "Sweet Victory" song play all the way through. Everyone has heard Travis Scott's "Sicko Mode" a million times, but with Spongebob being off the air for as long as it has been, I know many people were dramatically eager to sing along when they saw the Spongebob band montage pop up on the screen. Not to be a hater, but I would have preferred a full play of "Sweet Victory" over Big Boi any day of the week. Throwbacks are the wave. Next time just let Spongebob sing.

Finally, there was the fatigue factor of seeing the New England Patriots back in the Super Bowl. The Patriots have always been known as a team that will do whatever it takes to win a game. Whether they have to throw the ball 40 times for five yards a pop, run the ball 40 times of kick five field goals to win the game, they are willing to do it. They never have been known to be risk takers that will air it out and generate consistent highlight reel plays.

So in this game of offensive struggles, they just had muster up a measly 13 points to inch out the victory. A win is a win, but it's something about a game that's high-flying and wire-to-wire with an epic finish that just makes you feel better about the game as a whole.

Overall, this was just a back-and-forth game that went to halftime 3-3 and only 16 points total were scored total. For three hours of our time, all we had to show for it is three field goals, two interceptions, one touchdown, a Maroon 5 concert, and another Patriots Super Bowl victory.

For all of those like myself who live outside of Maine, I feel your pain of having to watch in despair, saying to yourself, "Oh no not again!" If you want my opinion, I would have loved to see a rematch of the Chiefs vs. Rams game that we saw on Monday Night Football a few months ago that had almost 100 total points scored. But we can't always get what we want. Unfortunately, the Patriots are the champs once again and there's nothing we can do about it till next season.

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