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Re: 2008 NFL season
James did you seriously pick them at the start of the year?
Yep. Predicted an Arizona/Cleveland SB. Arizona/Baltimore is awfully close. 
I've decided to just embrace this parity era. The magic is gone anyways, so I'll just wallow in the league's mediocrity.
Hate the Cardinals? Don't worry! Next year the Vikings will go. Hate them too? Don't fret, because the Rams will go all the way the following season. Even if you're a Detroit fan, you're guaranteed a SB run at some point in the coming decade.
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Re: 2008 NFL season
I still disagree on the Parody point - Eagles have been in 50% of the conference finals this decade, Pittsburgh's in their second SB in 5 years, just because Baltimore and Arizona made long runs (and number 1 seeds lost) doesn't mean there are no constants in the NFL.
James, I agree Flacco isn't a SB worthy QB yet, but it's not like he has any weapons either. Mason isn't very fast anymore, runs so-so routes, and has decent hands, and he's supposedly their best. Clayton is similarly slow. Neither of them can do anything after a catch either, and if Baltimore wants to get better fast adding a WR will do that.
Go Cardinals, although Steelers would be fine champions again.
Re: 2008 NFL season
This sucks. The f'ing Cradinals?? Are you kidding me?!
I don't care about pardoy. I do think it makes the league better. Look at the NBA, if you don't live in LA, Boston, San Antonio, Detroit or Phoenix you're probably not going to win a championship this year unless you have Lebron James on your team. I think it's fair this way. Philly always loses to shitty football cities, like Carolina, Tampa & now Phoenix. Come on, why can't we at least lose to Chidago, Green Bay or NY or something.... Not f'ing Arizona where they can't even sell out a playoff game.
Go Steelers, keep it in the state. (Even though I probably won't be watching)
Re: 2008 NFL season
Its certainly an odd Super Bowl match up. Neither team is flashy and while the Steelers are a historic team and certainly have their fair share of fans, this cant be what the NFL was hoping for.
While you can make a case for or against parity, what you are seeing right now is the absolute purest by-product of that. Fans are actually lucky that Oakland didn't sneak into the playoffs, or we'd be seeing an Oakland-Arizona snooze fest.
In what people such as myself would refer to as "the good old days", neither of these teams would have made it deep in the playoffs, and in the case of Baltimore and Arizona, never would have made it into the playoffs to begin with. There were always a few monster teams in each conference that didn't allow mediocrity to rise to the top.
Wanna know why people like Fouts, Marino, Cunningham,etc. never made it to a SB? Because teams such as SF, Chicago, NY, Denver, Dallas and Buffalo wouldn't allow it. You had to bring your A game to even have a fighting chance. You didn't get rewarded for bringing your Z game. Its why there were no massive Cinderella stories in the NFL's heyday. Now there's a Cinderella story every single year.
