Super Sunday!

Let the beer flow and the couch be readied. Super Bowl Sunday is upon us once again. The biggest one day sporting event in North America (perhaps the world) will again have tens of millions tuning in all over the globe to see the penultimate battle for gridiron glory, or, at least the commercials. This highly anticipated rematch between the New England Patriots and New York Giants (who actually play in New Jersey??) is a media dream as it has all the necessary ingredients: big market cities, franchise quarterbacks, a shot at redemption and the added bonus of being in Indianapolis so Peyton Manning can be show on camera, I'll say at least 30 times. This is a battle of a high end offense and a defense performing at it's peak. The memory or Plaxico Burress's game winning TD catch to spoil New England's perfect season in 2008, still fresh in the minds of many of these players and fans, this game sets the hype machine to all new levels of ridiculous. New England is favored by three going into the game and many are saying this makes about as much sense as replacing Tom Brady with John Madden. The Giants defense is playing lights out, they have three quality wide receivers, a decent running game and a quarterback in Eli Manning perhaps playing the best football of his career. and bear in mind he has already beat Tom Brady in a Super Bowl, the only quarterback to do so. They have all the intangibles and yet I can't can shake the sinking feeling that the Golden Boy will somehow find a way to walk out of Luke Oil stadium with another Lombardi Trophy to add to his mantel, (fits right beside his trophy wife). For whatever reason some people's lives just seem too good and, well, Tom Brady's is one of them. There is no reason to believe that he is anything less than a good guy and while as a Colts/Peyton Manning fan his ever success grates on my nerves like fingers on a chalk board, he seems to constantly be able to rise to the occasion. what about 2008 you say? True, he came up short but what has always seem to drive Tom, ever since his days as a backup in Michigan is the doubters, the naysayers, the voices saying you're not good enough. In 2008 he was supposed to win, there was no contest right? The Juggernaut that was the Patriots were a team of destiny. How'd that work out for him? This however is entirely different. Now he has something more to prove, now he is the one people are questioning. And I just have a feeling that like he's done his whole Hall of Fame career, Tom Brady will somehow find a way to once again come out a winner ... Jackass ...