Super Bowl XLIII Running Thread

Agree ... this is fantastic.

EDIT: Danny White was the Cowboys' starting punter in 1978?!?

 

I love watching old NFL games. No yellow first down line. No graphics crowding the screen. Just football. Simple football.

 

The way it ought to be.

 

Rooneys helped BO out in PA. Tit for tat.

 

The Rooneys actually hand-delivered a game ball from the AFC championship game to Obama at a black-tie dinner the day before his inauguration. And how cool would it be to see Tomlin be the first coach to visit the Obama White House?

 

How cool would it be to see Edgerrin James, a pro athlete who has given and given back to the less fortunate perhaps more than any other, be on the first team to visit Obama in the WH?

 

How cool would it be to see Santonio Holmes, who is trying to steer children away from dealing drugs by telling them that he used to deal drugs, thus demonstrating that he suffered no consequence at all....wait...um....

Fuck it. I would still think it was cool because it's the Steelers. I'm a fanboy, dammit!

(In all seriousness, the general public really doesn't know that about James, Simon, and they aren't going to put that together if the Cardinals visit the White House. They will notice the second African American coach to lead his team to a Super Bowl championship visiting the Obama White House.)

 

Not as cool as seeing the young black coach visit the young black president.

BTW, is it me, or has public perception gone with the Cardinals winning this game the closer we get to Sunday? ESPN's Sportscenter poll was lopsided toward the Cardinals (39 states). Steve Young, Meshawn, Marshall Faulk and a whole host of former players now working as analysts are going with the Cardinals. Six if 10 SI.com experts picked the Cardinals. There's a wave of support for Arizona in this game right now.

Given how the last three Super Bowl winners have come from wild-card weekend, can't say I blame them.

 

I think that has happened in a lot of Super Bowls. People talk themselves into the the game being more competitive that it initially appears to be.

 

I've seen it, too. Rod Woodson also picked the Cardinals, though he gave a pretty good reason. He thinks this is a terrible match-up for the Steelers because Arizona's defense is designed to attack the weak points in Pittsburgh's defense.

Some of it is momentum. Some is people wanting to pick the underdog. A lot of it is based on sound reasoning. To me, this is a pick'em game. I don't see how anybody is looking at this one as easy for the Steelers.

 

Well, if Ward is a shell of himself, this will be a low-scoring game.