Super Finale: The Final Super Bowl Preview (We Promise)
February 5, 2010 by Ron Johnson |
Posted under: nfl, other, local |
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We have watched the sports channels all week, and they have been delivering countless reasons as to why the Indianapolis Colts are the team that will win the Super Bowl. We have been given previews to the previews to the previews. Now we can officially say that all these previews are worse than the hangovers after a St. Patrick's Day binge. So while the Tuesday Morning Quarterback orders up another pitcher of beer, I will start this special edition of TMQ and TLC!
The big news is apparently the health of Dwight Freeney. Freeney hurt himself during the AFC Championship Game, but everyone should be more focused on the guys that are going to play on Sunday. But before we get into that, it has been a rather slow week...that is with the exception of the stupidity on display during the Pitt-West Virginia game a few days ago. I am not even going to give nominees for this week's Badfish Award...the winner is clear cut. It's the West Virginia Mountaineers fans!
Who in their right mind throws coins on the court? Who would go to a game just to disrupt it and put the spotlight on them and off of the game itself? That's not just bad sportsmanship...that's just plain ignorant and embarrassing.
But hey! Look he returns with a new pitcher and fresh glasses! It's Bleacher Brothers' own Tuesday Morning Quarterback!
Captain Ron, I know you want to go on one of your little rants, but save that for after the Super Bowl. This is about the game, not the hardwood. So I'm here to ask the infamous question: Who hoists The Lombardi Trophy come this Sunday?
Here are the facts as they stand.
- The Indianapolis Horseshoes are playing in yet another Super Bowl. Their last appearance saw them decimate Rex Grossman and the Chicago Cs on this very same field a few years ago.
- The New Orleans Fish Hooks are playing in their first Super Bowl in franchise history. The Hooks look to make their first trip memorable considering the tragedies they've had to endure as a city.
- The Super Bowl returns to Miami. Miami has played host to 10 Super Bowls (Orange Bowl with five, and Sun Life Stadium with five).
- The Shoes and Hooks will both host upcoming Super Bowls with Indy hosting in 2012 and Nawlins hosting the following year.
- Peyton Manning is playing in his second Super Bowl, while Drew Brees makes his debut in the big game.
Why is everyone thinking that the Shoes will win this? Because they came back and defeated NY Football Team B after trailing at halftime? Because it's Peyton Manning, and he is supposedly unstoppable? Because the Shoes got the best of the best defense in the league? Is everyone forgetting that the Fish Hooks are the highest scoring offense in the league? That they're defense has taken advantage of their underratedness all season long?
In all fairness, this game is going to be good mainly because of the two teams involved. This will not be like the last Super Bowl in Miami where we expected the Cs to show up, only to turn into choke artists. Will this game be like last year's between the Pittsburgh Color Stars and Arizona Desert Birds? Absolutely. Last year, we had two prolific quarterbacks in Ben Roethlischeesburger and Kurtesy Clerk Warner. They delivered the greatest game in recent SB memory. I can see Peyday Manning and Cool Brees delivering the exact performance.
But this game will come down to defense. Defense wins championships, as Baltimore proved during their Super Bowl run. In the past two games for the Hooks, the defense destroyed Warner and Bretterception Favre. When I say destroyed, they sent both QBs to the sideline grimacing in pain. This defense has been called overrated and not that intimidating by the so-called "experts" on that other sports network...and they don't mind that at all.
In fact, the NFL will thrive both financial wise and ratings wise due in large part because of this being the first time that two #1 seeds have met in the Super Bowl in over a decade and a half. That last meeting has some irony to this one as well. In 1993, the Buffalo Streakers and Dallas Blue Stars met in Super Bowl XXVII, and the Streakers were favored in that game as well. The end result? Blue Stars 52, Streakers 17. Dallas dominated that game from start to finish. The following year, the two teams met again, and this time, the Streakers were ready.
They kept the Blue Stars in check for the first half, until Dallas came out firing on all cylinders in the second half.
The last time tragedy was turned into triumph in the Super Bowl was when the Minutemen shocked the Lambkins 20-17 just months after the 9/11 tragedy. The Hooks are looking to erase the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina and bring a Super Bowl Championship to the Big Easy.
The Captain selected New Orleans as his Super Bowl winner. TMQ's better half picked Indianapolis. WWE's Bella Twins picked the Shoes as well. So I have to follow suit with everyone else and say that the winner of this Sunday's Super Bowl will be...The New Orleans Fish Hooks! That's right, America. I am not Vegas, nor ESPMSN! I am the Tuesday Morning Quarterback, and I do things my way!
Captain, did you have anything else?
Nope. The Captain has spoken! I'm sticking with the Saints! GEAUX SAINTS!!!!
Good. In that case, The Quarterback has left one building to hit up another pub. The beer's getting flat here.
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