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 SUPER BOWL XLIII Feb. 1, 2009 |
Look for favored Steelers
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Enough with the
picks.
When it comes to the Super Bowl, I’ll let others predict.
My 2008 call--the Pats would make midgets of the Giants--was so embarrassing, I’m on the bench this time.
So for Sunday’s tilt in Tampa Bay, who’s the seer? Tommy Tutt, a buddy in Las Vegas who knows odds. He likes the favored Pittsburgh Steelers to put a 30-13 crowbar to the Arizona Cardinals--and to the touchdown spread.
I’ll stick to this prediction: Ben Roethlisberger wins the Supe MVP.
That’ll make plenty of Tutt’s neighbors happy. Vegas will be crawling with Steeler fans. Sin City sure was on Super Sunday ’06. And you bet every other Pittsburgh jersey jaunting along the Strip will blare No. 7--Big Ben’s lucky number.
What else to recall from America’s No. 1 game?
The Man: Terry Bradshaw. Four victories. He put on the Pittsburgh black and gold on Super Sunday, and he won. Period.
The Performer: Joe Namath. He’s still wagging that finger after delivering on his guarantee of a New York Jet jolting of the Baltimore Colts in 1969.
The Drag: John Elway. When he flopped for the third time, Denver fans were bummed enough. The score of that 1990 title game made it hell: 55-10 to San Francisco. Elway was way done.
The Spark: Elway. Eight years after the 49ers deep-sixed him, Big John jumped over Green Bay to give the Broncos Super Bowl glory. The 31-24 Denver victory over the invincible Packers was simply stunning. And turned Elway from choke to champ.
The Kicker: Jim O’Brien. His 32-yarder at the buzzer bolted Baltimore past Dallas 16-13 in 1971. A game full of clownish errors was suddenly a serious classic.
That Colt bull’s-eye was the first football game I ever saw live on TV. Having grown up in an Army community in Germany, I lived by radio. Then the Air Force gave us a treat--a satellite feed near Frankfurt. Americans flocked there to see Johnny Unitas, Earl Morall, Duane Thomas and O’Brien.
The yanks who packed that TV room 38 years ago will never forget.
©2000 by Bucky Fox. This column first posted Jan. 26, 2009.
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