Super Bowl 40: Steelers VS Seahawks

[DavidMn]

Well, it'a set. Sorry Chili that your Broncos couldnt pull it off, but I'm afraid the old Jake Plummer of Arizona Cardinals fame showed up yesterday. So what do us football fans make of this matchup? Well, god knows we're going to have 1001 Jerome Bettis going home stories. Not that that's a bad thing, but maybe limit it to about 500. I'll tell you allone thing, I'm getting tired of people talking about Pittsburgh being the first #6 seed to make it to the Super Bowl. This is a damn good team that was 15-1 last year, and 11-5 this season and finished 6th only because the AFC had a lot of good teams in it. It's not like they were 8-8 and came from nowhere. The you have Seattle, who throughly dominated Carolina and I'm not surprised at that one bit. Here's why: Carolina had one superstar player in Steve Smith, and a good(Not great) quarterback in Jake Delhomme. Their running back situation was in dire straits with DeShaun Foster getting hurt in the last game,and Nick Goings out of the title game in the first quarter. That allowed Seattle to double, triple, even sometimes quadruple team Smith, and when Delhomme couldnt get the ball to him, well stick a fork in the Panthers. Shaun Alexander again proved why he's the best running back in football coming back from his injury last week to rush for 132 yards and a touchdown. So there we have it; what I view as a great matchup for the big game. Pittsburgh has been installed as a 3 1/2 point favorite, and I would concur with that. My prediction for Super Bowl 40: Steelers 28, Seawhawks 24. I know I'm going agasint my original pick at the beginning of the playoffs, but what the Steelers have done, beating the #1,2, and 3 seeds all on the road, well that's enough for me. One for the thumb Pittsburgh!!