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Some Super Bowls are blowouts, some nail-biters, some coaching challenges of field position and strategy, some just straight ahead smash mouth free-for-alls where winning depends on who has final possession of the football, or a last minute mistake on the part of the opposing team.
Some Super Bowls are blowouts, some nail-biters, some coaching challenges of field position and strategy, some just straight ahead smash mouth free-for-alls where winning depends on who has final possession of the football, or a last minute mistake on the part of the opposing team.
This year's game could be viewed as a contest between the old guard
and the upstarts as Colin Kaepernick and his turbocharged San Francisco
49ers offense go up against Ray Lewis, Ed Reed and the physical and
savvy defense of the Baltimore Ravens. Both teams have had a couple of
weeks to prepare and I'm thinking it's going to be a great game with
emotions running high, the hitting hard and the battle in the trenches
hard fought and relentless.
After the game is over, I'm sure the losing team will reflect on
opportunities missed, mistakes made, broken plays, dropped passes and
missed tackles, but not for long. They'll be too busy thinking about
getting back to next year's Super Bowl.
Some of the players we will see in the Super Bowl have come back from
injuries, surgeries requiring the kind of rehabilitation that only a
driven man with a consuming desire to play the game could come back
from, painful hours of repetitious exercise and physical therapy under
the watchful eye of trainers whose sole motivation is to get you back on
the field in shape to play your position better than anybody else on
the roster.
The sixteen game regular season schedule has one focal point for
every team that takes the field, getting to the Super Bowl; it's every
NFL player, coach and owner's ultimate dream. It means there are no
unimportant games, no game days when you can coast because any team in
the league is capable of bearing any other team in the league on any
given Sunday afternoon and if you want to make it to the Super Bowl
you've got to play them all hard and serious.
So many great and even legendary players never got to compete in a
Super Bowl, players who will have their busts enshrined in the Pro
Football Hall of Fame in Canton, OH but were never quite able to pull
off the ultimate feat.
