A Super Bowl Dilemna

This Sunday is the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Boy Scout Sunday, and Super Bowl Sunday.  Guess which feast will warrant a party?

I picked the Packers over the Patriots back in September.  As the "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" blogger says, "All bets wrong or your money back."  For SB XLVII it will be the San Francisco 49ers versus the Baltimore Ravens.  Head coach Jim Harbaugh versus older brother head coach John Harbaugh.

The dilemma for Pittsburgh fans (if they even bother to watch) is, who to root for. The Baltimore black birds beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh (although our Steelers returned the favor in Baltimore), and hung on to be the division leader in the AFC North.  The Steelers, of course, lost three of their last four games and did not make the NFL playoffs.  With Ray Lewis doing a Jerome "Bus" Bettis--announcing this is his last season before retirement--the Ravens were underdogs as they beat Andrew Luck and the Colts, Peyton Manning and the Broncos, and Tom Brady and the Patriots on the way to their second Super Bowl appearance. They are our rivals, and have been since they came into the AFC North division.  Let me say this again.  The Ravens are our HATED rivals.  Lewis and his teammates hope that the same magic that rode the 2005 Steelers to their fifth Super Bowl win in Bettis's hometown of Detroit in SB XL will lead to a Ravens victory.

But...the 49ers have five Super Bowl wins.  They haven't appeared in the biggest pro football game since 1994, but as the "team of the decade" in the 1980s, San Fran won four led by Ringgold High School's own Joe Montana and one with Steve Young.  One more SB win, and the 49ers tie the Pittsburgh Steelers for most wins, 6.  And...the 49ers have no losses.

So, who are you rooting for?  (And I don't mean for best/funniest/oddest commercial.)

No one does it better than cartoonist Rob Rogers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette!

Who am I rooting for?  For some years, I've had my principle, and I stick to it.  When the Steelers are not in the big game, I root for the team with the fewest SB wins.  I'm picking Joe Flacco to pick apart the 49er defense, just as he did the Patriots defense.  Ravens 30, 49ers 21.  First borns rule!