Super Bowl Pick Time

It is the Friday before the big game. If you have to be one of those people who has to work on Sunday night you have probably have heard from management that there is no call ins Sunday night saying you are sick. You fill out a vacation day in advance or show up for work, the only excuse for not working Sunday night is death.

The Super Bowl is just about like the first day of hunting season. It has become so big that it needs to be a national holiday. This year for the first time in a while the big game has two evenly match teams which makes this one of the best match ups ever. Not only are they two of the most storied franchises in the NFL but as this season has unfolded they are truly the two best teams in the NFL this year.

If you look at the past there always seems to be one team that was not suppose to make it but because they got hot at the right time survived to make it to the Super Bowl. This year almost looks like a dream match up. The only thing hindering this Super Bowl from being one of the best ever is the weather. Since the game is play inside in the Billion dollars Jerry Jones stadium by game time the weather will not be a factor. If you were lucky enough to have a ticket the only missing ingredient this week is the carnival atmosphere that goes along with any big event like the Super Bowl. Everything has been pushed inside.

This game highlights the hottest quarterback in the NFL in Aaron Rogers. He is the guy who replaced Brett Farve. I have not heard of any demonstrations during any Packer games over the last three years where people in Green Bay wanted Brett Farve back. Rogers has become the exception to the rule. It is suppose to take ten quarterbacks to forget Farve but the Packers only needed one. Maybe that is why the Packers showed the aging Farve the door in order to get Rogers playing time.

Now that Rogers has tossed the fifteen hundred passes minimum to be rated on the all time passing list he is first in QB rating. His three playoff games to date are the highest ratings of all time by far. To this point in his short career Aaron Rogers is making Brett Farve look like the JV quarterback of Packer history.

The other side of the line of scrimmage there is Ben Roethlisberger. He is more famous for his off the field antics than on the field but you have to give it to Big Ben. Somehow or other he weasels out of off the field trouble just like he evades a pass rush during games. He is more effective when in trouble because he is shifty enough that he side steps to freedom just long enough to put a dagger in the other teams heart.

Both of these defenses can crush a quarterback. The Steelers have the guy with the hair Troy Pala Mala what ever his name is that catches more passes than the team that is suppose to be catching the ball. They also have the leading money loser in the NFL for crushing quarterbacks. The Packers are just as good on defense as offense only just you have never heard of many of them.

This Super Bowl to me looks like one of the best ever. It probably will not be because one defense will pick up a fumble and score and what looked like a good game will become one sided.

This is one game that I don’t care one way or the other. I don’t have a hate for either team. If I had to give you my opinion theses two teams are teams like you wished the entire NFL was like. Green Bay is owned by the people of the city while Pittsburgh is a mill town that has survived when the steel industry went to China.

Boy this is a tough game to call. I just have this feeling that Pittsburgh is going to make Aaron Rogers very uncomfortable. In the back of my mind this is one of those this Pittsburgh team has been to the Super Bowl three times with this group while this is the first time for this Green Bay group, Pittsburgh should win but like last year when Indy should have won. I’m taking the Packers.