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You Heard It Here Last

Feb 1, 2009
By Ezra.
Sports

I started a trend last year of predicting the Super Bowl winner. I got lucky last year, but this year I have very little clue. I think the Cardinals win the game, largely because the injury to Hines Ward is more important than people think, and because Roethlisberger is not a great big game QB. However, a huge mitigating factor is the fact that they are the Arizona Cardinals. Still, I say Cardinals, and Kurt Warner will use it to try & convince us all that his god exists. Sigh, now I want the Steelers to win, if only for us atheists…

This year, a few friends are coming over for the game. Sadly, I doubt there will be any games played, but one never knows…

Enjoy the Super Bowl!

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  1. Chris Berez  •  Feb 1, 2009 @2:22 pm

    As a Pats fan, I hate the Steelers; so I’ll be rooting hard for the Cards tonight. Football is infused with religion more than any other sport (or at least it feels that way), and I’ve just gotten used to either ignoring it or rolling my eyes. I mean, if Curt Schilling couldn’t dent my atheism after 2004, what chance does Kurt Warner have?

  2. Marc J. Randazza  •  Feb 2, 2009 @2:55 pm

    I don’t understand why my fellow members of Patriots Nation hate the Steelers. I’m glad they won. I was rooting for them for two reasons, 1) I too I like to see the christian lose, and 2) Now the Steelers are indisputably the greatest franchise of all time — and although this SB victory for them placed that title one more SB out of reach of the Patriots, at least it put the kaibosh on the scum sucking Cowboys trying to claim it.

  3. Patrick Nelson  •  Feb 2, 2009 @3:50 pm

    Wrong!

  4. Patrick  •  Feb 2, 2009 @4:38 pm

    I don’t give a damn about Warner’s religion, or his wife, Marc, and as a fan of neither of these teams I was pulling for him. As a sports fan, Warner’s is a beautiful story. Guy rises from grocery bagger to Super Bowl MVP, loses when he’s expected to repeat, gets dumped, flakes out, is considered a joke, then makes it back to the Super Bowl at the end of his career. With an old team that, historically, may be the worst in league history.

    That’s Pride of the Yankees level storytelling. Hell, that’s Sergeant York storytelling.

    As opposed to, guy who won the Super Bowl a few years ago busts his head open riding a motorcycle, something only a fool with a death wish does regularly, in violation of his contract, then comes back and wins because he had A-level health insurance and the beautiful loser miffs one play in an otherwise perfect game.

    To hell with the Steelers. The only consolation is that they’re better than your miserable, scumsucking, cheating Patriots, the only team I hate as much as I hate Dallas.

    I’ll just bet you were a Cowboys fan before you were a Patriots fan. I’ll bet that you love Duke basketball too.

  5. Derrick  •  Feb 3, 2009 @6:52 am

    I generally dislike the whole “Big Ups To Jesus” speeches most atheletes do once in a while. But I respect Warner, if only because he walks the walk. Unlike say, Issac Bruce, Reggie White, or Eugene Robinson.

  6. Derrick  •  Feb 3, 2009 @6:57 am

    Okay, not Reggie White. My bad.

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