Saturday, February 04, 2006

Super Bowl XL


Well I have made my predictions for Harpers Cabinet and with the Superbowl on Sunday I thought I would try my hand at prestitigitation. In this case both teams are well balanced, and both are underdogs.

Seahawks, Steelers are mirror images

Super Bowl XL combatants can win with pass, run or defense

They are mirror images of each other, two hard-nosed teams who believe in themselves, which is probably the only reason they are now at the top of the heap in the National Football League.

They both like to hammer you with the run. They both have young, strapping quarterbacks who are even better thant the public realizes. They both play defense in a head-on-collision kind of way, knocking around opponents with a feverish intensity.

They are the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks, two teams who have one other thing in common. Neither one of them was supposed to be where they're headed now, which is to a showdown in Detroit at Super Bowl XL.

But it's the Seahawks that are an even bigger unkown and of the two they are the real underdogs.

There's still plenty of room on the Seahawks' bandwagon
DetNews.com -
If the Steelers are the new America"s team, the Seahawks are America’s forgotten team. They are the other guys in Sunday’s Super Bowl XL, foils for the Steelers. The Seahawks are the undesirables, ignored ...

So given that the Steelers have not won in 25 years and in that time the great city of Steel and home of the American Trade Union movement has declined into a shade of its former glory I will be cheering for them.

What I will be really hoping for as we all do is a great game. At least one to match the ultimate in Football games; the Grey Cup.

Steelers play in shadow of that '70s team
Steel Curtain: Winning four Super Bowls in six years solidified Pittsburgh's legacy

Steel Dynasty: The Team That Changed the NFL by Bill Chastain (Foreword by Rocky Bleier) revisits the glory days when the Steelers had the most remarkable run on the field while also capturing the hearts and minds of football fans all across America. Six consecutive AFC Central titles, eight playoff appearances, four Super Bowl wins. Between 1972 and 1979 a Dynasty was born and no team before or since has achieved similar excellence.


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