Alan Pergament: CBS’ Romo, Nantz are sharp in Super Bowl that took some time to live up to the hype

Romo, who has faced intense criticism this season, was sharp, informative, opinionated and entertaining during Kansas City’s 25-22 overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers.

He didn’t give his critics much to call out until the end, when he was hammered on social media for talking too much after the winning touchdown.

Some of his analysis of the Chiefs was undoubtedly familiar to Buffalo Bills fans, since Romo worked so many of their games.

For instance, he noted the Chiefs simplified their offense late this season.

More notably, he said the Chiefs’ Chris Jones pushed San Francisco linemen into quarterback Brock Purdy to prevent him from getting enough on the ball on a couple of key plays in the same way he pushed Dion Dawkins into Josh Allen, prevented the quarterback from hitting Khalil Shakir in the end zone late in the Bills’ playoff loss to the Chiefs.

Bills fans lamenting what might have been if Tyler Bass had hit the game-tying field goal to send that playoff game into overtime, with under two minutes left, may have gotten the answer by watching Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes drive for the winning touchdown after San Francisco took a 22-19 lead in overtime.

Whether Mahomes could have driven for a winning field goal is open to question, but once again fans were reminded it happens more often than not.

Romo also accurately predicted that Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo would go after Purdy with pressure on big plays because that is his calling card.

Play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz was sharp, too.

He showed how much homework he did after San Francisco receiver Jauan Jennings threw a 21-yard touchdown pass to Christian McCaffrey.

Nantz noted that Jennings played quarterback in high school and had a 43-yard game-winning reception on a Hail Mary against Georgia when he played for Tennessee.

“It took forever to get…