BEST BET: SEATTLE.Don't bring your Steelers sentimentality around here. Your 984 reasons to root for Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl, drag them to Steve Dilbeck's desk. Over here we've got the green eyeshade Green eyeshades are a type of visor that were worn most often from the late 1800s to the middle 1900s by accountants, telegraphers, copy editors and others engaged in vision-intensive, detail-oriented occupations. pulled down low, the spectacles focused on the numbers, glasses unfogged by emotion. Rooneys, ``Bus'', Ben, Troy, the gritty and charming Steel City, all thatblack-and-gold history, the three playoff wins on the road, the list goes on and on. Hey, if we were in the rooting business, we'd be picking Pittsburgh today. Keep schmaltzy schmaltz·y also schmalz·y adj. schmaltz·i·er, schmaltz·i·est Informal Of, relating to, or marked by excessive or maudlin sentimentality. See Synonyms at sentimental. stories like that away from me right now. I'm in the winner-picking business at this moment. In the Super Bowl today in Detroit, the Pittsburgh Steelers
A four-point spread is not an insignificant number. Four points meansthe public thinks Pittsburgh is solidly superior to Seattle. Or the public is carried away with its affection for the Steelers. I don't see the four-point difference between the Steelers, of old Trojan Troy Polamalu Troy Aumua Polamalu (born Troy Benjamin Aumua on April 19, 1981 in Garden Grove, California) is an American football player who plays strong safety for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL. He is of Samoan descent. , Ben Roethlisberger Ben Roethlisberger (born March 2, 1982, in Findlay, Ohio[1]), is an American football quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL. He led his team to a victory against the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl XL in just his second year in the league and is the youngest , Jerome Bettis Jerome Abram Bettis, nicknamed "The Bus" (born February 16, 1972 in Detroit, Michigan), is a former American football halfback for the NFL's Los Angeles/St. Louis Rams and Pittsburgh Steelers. , Willie Parker and a great coach, and the Seahawks, of old Trojan Lofa Tatupu, Matt Hasselbeck, Shaun Alexander and a Super Bowl-winning coach. The Seahawks lost twice in the season's first month and then not again until the final week of the regular season against Green Bay. Forgiving the loss in that meaningless game, the Seahawks have won 13 games in a row, a notch below the Indianapolis Colts streak that caused a sensation. Against common opponents? Pittsburgh went 4-2, Seattle 3-2 - but oneof Seattle's losses was that Green Bay game, after the Seahawks had clinched home field for the playoffs. Edge, Seattle. Against the best opponents? Pittsburgh went 5-4 against playoff teams, Seattle 4-2. Edge, Seattle. Pittsburgh went 3-2 against the stingiestdefensive teams, 3-3 against the top quarterbacks, 2-1 against the top ball carriers. Seattle went 2-1, 3-0 and 3-1. Edge, Seattle, edge, Seattle, edge, Seattle. Recently? Pittsburgh is 7-2 since Roethlisberger returned from injury. Seattle is 7-1 in the same span. Edge, Seattle. As often happens in the Super Bowl, with so much amateur money goingthrough the windows, the betting line is out of whack today. If I were rooting, I'd root for the Steelers. If I were gambling, I'd send it in onthe Seahawks. |
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