Scott Cordischi On Sports: A Classic Super Bowl Match-Up
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
It may not be the Super Bowl match-up that we here in New England wanted to see, or football fans in many other NFL cities throughout the country. However, Super Bowl XLV in Dallas features a classic match-up of two of the league’s most historic and successful franchises.
Just about everyone in New England will be rooting for the Green Bay Packers because of the fact that we don’t want to see Pittsburgh win their third Super Bowl in six years placing them on par with the Patriots as the team of the decade.
Furthermore, we don’t want Ben Roethlisberger to win his third Lombardi Trophy because that would place him in the same rarified air as our own Tom Brady.
There’s also the fact that the Patriots and Steelers have developed quite a healthy rivalry over the last decade and with that has come some genuine dislike on both sides.
Regardless, it’s hard not to appreciate these two franchises for a variety of reasons. In addition to the aforementioned tradition of the two, both represent cities and fan bases of blue collar workers who love their football.
It should be a good one on February 6th in Dallas.
-NY Post columnist Steve Serby writes of Jets coach Rex Ryan, “from this day forward, reaching the AFC Championship Game will not be enough. The only acceptable end to next season will be Ryan holding that Lombardi Trophy.”
-Serby also says if Ryan doesn’t win it all next year he will go from “The Coach they Love to Hate” to “The Coach Who Cried Wolf.”
-We need more snow here in southern New England like Antonio Cromartie needs another kid.
-18 days until pitchers and catchers report to Red Sox Training Camp in Fort Myers.
-For all you Yankees fans, 19 days before the Bombers pitchers and catchers report to Tampa.
-I could do without the “Roethlisberger Redemption” stories that are sure to come early and often over the next two weeks leading up to Super Bowl XLV.
-While Marc Savard’s latest concussion has been labeled as “moderate,” the fact that he has suffered yet another one is a discouraging sign for the Bruins center.
-Providence College will always be capable of pulling off an upset against one of the top teams in the Big East like they did against Louisville last Saturday. However, to reach its potential as a program they have to not only score a few of those upsets each season, they also need to take care of business against the teams in the lower half of the conference which they have not done of late.
-Watching Notre Dame’s Ben Hansborough lead the Irish to an upset win at Pitt Monday night was college basketball at its best.
-The fact that Moses Brown violated eligibility and recruiting rules by using 8th graders in JV games and in practice with the varsity team is disturbing at best.
-A lot of dumb things may come out of Antonio Cromartie’s mouth, but his saying that the NFLPA and owners, “need to get their minds together….and just get this s—t done, and stop bitching about money,” isn’t one of them.
-Former Bruin and current Colorado Avalanche commentator Peter McNab calls Boston goaltender Tim Thomas, “the best player in the NHL this season, at any position,” according to the Boston Herald.
-KG is back in the Celtics line-up. Kendrick perkins is too. Shaq is expected to return to the floor on their west coast trip which starts tomorrow. And Delonte West could be back soon. All good news for Boston and bad news for the rest of the Eastern Conference.
-Tiger Woods makes his 2011 PGA Tour debut tomorrow at the Farmers Insurance Open at Torre Pines in San Diego in case you were wondering.
-There’s no shame in losing to top ten teams like Pitt and Villanova, but Syracuse should be embarrassed after getting wiped out at the Carrier Dome by Seton Hall last night.
-Am I missing something or do all of the nitwits who criticized Bears’ QB Jay Cutler know exactly how much pain he was or wasn’t in on Sunday?
-I don’t know about you, but I don’t put the NFL season to bed until after the draft in late April.
-How is it that many of Rhode Island’s cities and towns have exhausted their snow removal budgets? It’s not like the roads have been well plowed after all of the previous storms we’ve had.
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