Let the game begin
It’s Super Bowl Week! A whole week of hype! A whole week of Tom Brady’s injured ankle and model girlfriend! A whole week of hearing how much each commercial is going to cost! A whole week of every story angle imaginable!
OK, it’s not so overwhelming. There is always a sense or urgency during the week before the Super Bowl, possibly because there was no football to watch over last weekend.
One thing I’ve noticed in past Super Bowl weeks is the tendency to give the underdog more of a chance than it might actually have. Sometimes it pans out — look at the Broncos 10 years ago against the Packers — but usually it doesn’t. There are some pundits who think the Giants have a chance. Really, fellas, they don’t. But it’s fun to believe they might. All part of Super Bowl Week.
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January 29th, 2008 at 12:49 am