Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Super Bowl Preview

As I write this we have a new President of the United States--pretty exciting.  I thought I would take a moment to offer a few early thoughts on a subject other than politics.  Of course I'm talking about the upcoming Super Bowl between the Pittsburgh Steelers and Arizona Cardinals. Going into the postseason nobody seemed to give the Cardinals a chance.  In fact, they were arguably the worst team to have found themselves playing after the regular season ended. However, just one look at what they have accomplished in the postseason thus far proves that they are not to be taken lightly by opponents.  They beat the Falcons, the Panthers (the NFC's #2 seed) and the Eagles.  While it is true that they generally don't play well traveling east, it is important to note that they are playing in a warm weather destination similar to Arizona (and let's not forget that the Cardinals beat the Panthers in Carolina).  With regard to the Steelers, they are playing well and looking strong.  They earned a bye week the first week of the playoffs and then proceeded to beat the Chargers and the Ravens to advance to the Super Bowl.  The Steelers are an impressive team, but I'm just thinking that the Cardinals are going to pull off the upset victory here.  I'm picking the Cardinals to win the Super Bowl by a score of 28-24.  
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Mike G said...

While I appreciate coolguy's analysis on this one, I think the Steelers D is just too much for the Cards. Larry Fitzgerald is borderline super-human, but he is going against Mr. Polamalu and co. This is the old unstoppable force v. immovable object debate. I give the edge to the immovable object (see second half of the Eagles-Cards game where AZ was all but shut down until that last drive - Pitt will be studying that film and be ready for the birds).

January 22, 2009 at 10:14 AM

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