Well, it’s Super Bowl time again. Right now everyone is getting ready for their big Super Bowl parties by washing the fine Mike Tom-linen napkins and firing up the grill for the Ben Roethlis-burgers and the Kurt Weiners with Hines (Ward) ketchup. The Arizona Cardinal fans are just hoping they won’t have to break out the Anquan Bol-gin and juice by the second quarter.   

Below are some Super Bowl Notes

• There could not be any more contrast in tradition between two teams than the Steelers and the Cardinals. One team is trying to win their NFL record sixth Super Bowl Championship, and the other team’s best moment is when Rod Tidwell caught a touchdown pass on Monday Night Football (in the movie Jerry Maguire).

• If there is one game the entire year, in any sport, that doesn’t need a pre-game show it’s the Super Bowl.     Since there is an off week in between the conference championship games and the Super Bowl, the sports watching public is already overloaded with Super Bowl information, injury reports, and story lines before Super Bowl Sunday even gets here. But not only is there going to be a pre-game show, there is going to be six hours   of Super Bowl pre-game.

• In a July article I proclaimed the 2008 baseball season the “Year of Our Lord.” This might end up being the “Year of Our Lord” in football as well. First, sports’ most famous Christian, Tim Tebow, wins another national championship and now two Christian quarterbacks are going to play for the Super Bowl. Kurt Warner is a known Christian, and in Ben Roethlisberger’s rookie year, the NFL threatened to fine him if he didn’t stop writing “PFJ” on his shoes and arm bands. The PFJ stands for “Play For Jesus.”

Prediction: If Arizona gets off to a good start then they’ll have a chance to keep it close. This appears to be a “David vs. Goliath” type matchup (both in overall record and the team’s historical success). The Steelers are big and physical on defense and I don’t expect them to commit the Cardinal sin of playing zone on Larry Fitzgerald. Meanwhile the word “soft” has been used to describe the Cardinals more than a few times.

However, you have to consider this is a David vs. Goliath matchup during the “Year of Our Lord” in football. And when you get down to it, all a football is, is four leather straps with a prolate spheroidal shaped object inside.  A football that the Cardinals will throw all over the field. I’ve read the story of David and Goliath many times and every time I read it, David always wins.

Arizona Cardinals  31  Pittsburg Steelers  28