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February 5, 2008

After going back and forth over the weekend I ended up finally watching the Super Bowl. It was pretty tough during the first quarter because all I could think about was how the Packers should have been there in their white road jerseys instead of the Giants, but it ended up being a pretty decent […]

February 9, 2007

If it’s possible to induce a coma by overeating, I’m pretty sure that during the Super Bowl I came about as close as one dare before actually requiring hospitalization. I seriously need to check out hypno-therapy to curtail my piggish behavior on game days, I think.
So how about those stupid Bears, huh? Not only did […]

January 22, 2007

So my attempts at prognostication were right on the nose: Bears and Colts in the Super Bowl. Ah, I suck at picking games.
I was very surprised, to say the least, at how badly the Saints looked today. Was it the cold? All week everyone in the sports entertainment media complex kept repeating how Drew Brees […]

February 6, 2006

Congratulations to the Steelers and their fans for winning Super Bowl XL. I was pleasantly surprised it turned into a good game and not a total blowout. Pittsburgh played a classic Steelers game: let the defense keep the team in the game, hang around a while, then break a couple big plays to win the […]

January 26, 2006

The new ads for the Super Bowl running on ABC and ESPN have me scratching my head. If you haven’t seen them (just stay tuned, you will), the curious thing isn’t the visual element — just stock footage of past championships dug out of the vaults of NFL Films — but the use of the […]