Da' Super Bowl

Short answer: who cares?

If your team isn't the two, your rooting interest is in bean dip and beer. The rest is dullsville. The game is so dull nowadays, they have to drum up drama where there is none. For example Deflate-gate.

For those who don't live in America, this is a controversy in a game to see who was going to the Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts. In the NFL, offenses bring their own footballs. 12 all together. Well, in the wake of a Colts demolishing, Patriots were found out to have had 11 of their 12 balls under inflated. Some claim this allows better grip for running backs, and quarterbacks. The Patriots were supposedly caught for "cheating."

I don't think it's cheating, but it is a good story. And this leads us to the drama. Who, now, wouldn't want to see the Patriots get their comeuppance? Keep in mind, the Patriots are already a hated bunch. Dunno why. Maybe because they have a coach who is as friendly as Africanized bees. Or that they win at all cost.

Contrast to that...the Seattle Seahawks. They won last year with heart. A young team with a fairly new coach. They skated by wins. And showed that it wasn't superstars that won championships. It was total team effort. They not only won, they embarrassed Peyton Manning and the Broncos.

Nothing could be any different. In town ideology. Seattle, a very progressive forward thinking town, versus New England area...(let's just say Boston)...a very old notoriously smart yet painfully racist town.

Therein lies the drama.

Who do I think will win? I think Patriots are going to win it, despite this hate. Brady, when cornered seems to leap out of his skin. The two losses to the New York Giants were fluke plays. I think Brady's game management is impeccable. The guy knows when he needs to pull magic out of his ass. The Seahawk miracle against the Packers was truly a lot of bad things happening at once. I don't discount the heart 'Hawks played with, but...you know you got lucky. They were being destroyed by the Packers. I think Brady will find a way.

I would like Seattle to win though. Pete Carroll is from the Ohio State school of hard knocks. Woody Hayes school. There's something about this guy that needs that conflict. The year he was an assistant coach at Ohio State, they lost in the Rose Bowl to University of Southern California. ONLY years later to be head coach at USC to beat Ohio State. In college, he took on Jim Harbaugh who was the coach at Stanford. Just total hate. To meet each other years later in the NFL as Harbaugh was the head coach of the 49ers.

I just hope it's a good game. I'm sure they'll put on a show. But for us 30 teams that didn't make it, we still got commercials. And how sad is that?