Saturday, January 31, 2009

My Super Pick

The Super Bowl pregame show started about 4 days ago, as NBC gives us a full 4 days of pregame coverage. Here's what you may have missed.

- On "Hardball", Chris Matthews interviewing Kurt Warner's garbage man, after the garbage man, revealed he knows Joe the Plumber. Matthews, refers Warner's sanitation collector, as Jim the Trash Hauler.

- Matt Lauer on the "Today show" interviewed Ann Coulter, asking her what does she have against Byron LEFTwich. Coulter, dodges the question and plugs her new book titled "I'm Still Talking, so Shut Up Matt". Willard Scott also makes a cameo to wish Morten Anderson a Happy 100th.

- On "Countdown", Keith Olbermann counts down his top 10 "Worse People in the World" The results go as such.
10. Jerry Jones
9. Dan Snyder
8. Bill Bellichick
7. Leonard Little
6. Michael Vick
5. Terrell Ownes
4. Al Davis
3. Adam "Don't call me Pacman" Jones
2. Rae Carruth
1. Bill O' Reilly

- On the 16th hour of "Today", Kathie Lee and Hoda, guests are Joe Namath and Frank Gifford. A tipsy Namath says "Kiss me, Kathie Lee", while a sober Gifford says "Kiss me, Hoda."

- Jay Leno Hosts "The Chin Show", special guest: Bill Cowher.

- Bob Costas complains about the wild card system, saying only division winners should be allowed in the playoffs. Costas, also states that there should be no interleague play, and the designated receiver should be eliminated.

- David Gregory hosts "Meet the Press" with Jay Glazer (FOX Sports), Adam Schefter (NFL Network), Chris Mortensen (ESPN), and Michael Silver (Yahoo). When the subject of journalistic integrity comes up, all four turn and look at Mortensen.

- Joe Biden hosts his own segment called "Listen to Joe". It has been running for 36 hours with no commercials. Biden has had no guests appear.

Now for the game, it somewhat reminds me of last year, no one is giving the NFC a chance. Do I think the Cardinals can win? Yes. Do I think they will? No. Mike Tomlin will prove his worth and coach the Steelers for another 20 years (which in today's NFL, is like 40 years). I like Roethlisberger to manage the game, and I like the Steelers defense to control the game. I think some of the Cardinals are just going to be happy to be there and it will show on certain plays. I do expect a low scoring and close affair. Let's call it Steelers 20 Cardinals 14.