Not So Super Bowl

Well the Super Bowl is set. Steelers vs. Cardinals. Yawn.

Sorry to say, but this Super Bowl may be the least interesting in years. There is no storyline to latch on to. Worst of all, we have the extra week of listening to the media try and hype an unhypeable (yes, I just made up a word) game.

Oh, we will get plenty of stories about the underdog, Cinderella, "Nobody believed in us" Cardinals making their first Super Bowl in franchise history. (They won the league championship in 1947 as the Chicago Cardinals, but that was pre-Super Bowl). But are they really THAT much of an underdog?

The only way the underdog angle truly works is if the so-called "underdog" is going up against a vastly superior team. For example, in 2001 when "The Bag Boy" and the heavily favored St. Louis Rams were upset by Tom "Dreamy" Brady and the New England Patriots. And, yes, I always refer to Brady as "Dreamy."

The Steelers are not a vastly superior team, however. They are very good, and their defense is vastly superior, but overall they aren't a dominant team that steam-rolled their way to the Super Bowl. Granted they are better overall than the Cardinals, and probably should win the game, but they aren't so much better that a Cardinals win is unthinkable.

I would, if I may, like to digress here for a moment and congratulate myself on my magnificent comeback from going 0-4 on my Divisional round picks, to going 2-0 on my Championship round picks. You want to talk about a "Nobody beleived in us" type comeback, that right there is a "Nobody beleived in us" comeback. So I guess what I'm trying to say is this: Suck it.

Sorry. Moving on...

So throwing out the underdog angle, what is left to make this a must see game? If this wasn't the Super Bowl could you really get yourself psyched for a Cardinals vs. Steelers game?

The correct answer is, of course, no.

At this point the best thing to do is try to ignore all the misguided media hype and hope for a good game.

And, when attempting to avoid the hype inevitably fails, there are always the commercials to look forward to.

Wait, whats that? We're in an economic recession and nobody can afford cool commercials?

Damn. So much for being Super...

-Juice