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We're talking about an underdog with a WR who's considered to be the best in the game right now who just happens to have a former MVP and Super Bowl champion QB tossing the ball to him. Throw in a guy who's ranked 11th in career rushing yards and a young CB who's already being touted as one of the best. Plenty of experience/talent at the skill positions at AZ.And wasn't AZ the first team to qualify for the playoffs?
Yep. Voted "upset, but not a big one" A 6 1/2 point dog isn't a giant upset.
Irrelevant. We know more about both teams than we did a month ago.
I voted for 2 of the 5 choices (the choices running away with this poll).
Um, the 5 SB appearances vs zero SB appearances are pretty irrelevant, unless you think Bradshaw et al will suit up against Hart and Co. Using dopey historical stats like that makes no sense at all. We are talking about the 2008/9 Steelers vs. the 2008/9 Cardinals and that's all. The largeness of the upset has only to do with how these teams played this year, and no, this would not be an upset of historical proportions. It is a 9-7 division winner vs a 12-4 division winner who was a #2 seed. The spread is only 6 1/2, hardly a monster upset. Just because in your mind it would be huge doesn't make it so in fact.Mustang Man said:
At this point, it's 12-7 vs. 14-4.I'd like to see Bradshaw line up against Jim Hart. It's sad that this is the oldest franchise in the NFL and in their entire history the best they've seen is two years from Neil Lomax, two years from Kurt Warner, five years from Jim Hart and a half century of mediocre (or worse) QB play.
As one would expect, 27.54% of the Shark Pool are idiots.
When the playoffs began, Giants were the favorites to win SB at 2/1, followed by Titans at 5/2 and Steelers at 4/1. So, Steelers weren't even the favorites in their own conference according to the books, who do this for a living. I'd put more weight on that than on your opinion as to who the favorite was. Too much hyperbole from you IMO. It's a nice matchup, but no big deal historically if Zona wins.Mustang Man said:
Jim Nantz is responsible for this too. According to him I took the best piss ever during halftime of the game.
Aaaaaaaaand...../thread.Evilgrin 72 said:
Only to the extent it is the same players. So, several of the Steelers playing in the game a few years ago have an advantage, but so does Kurt Warner. The experience of players and coaches who played decades ago will not help this year's Steelers.ETA - Is there an early line on the game yet?Mustang Man said:
And Peter King gets the assist.
Interesting view. The Steelers have beaten two of the hottest teams in the playoffs. San Diego won five in a row coming into their game with Pittsburgh and lost by 11. Baltimore won 7 of their last 8 coming into the AFC Championship and lost by 9.Chase Stuart said:
Before the Cardinals played them, the Falcons had won 5 of their last 6, the Panthers 4 of 5 and the Eagles 6 of 7.It's certainly a debatable point either way.
Let's not get carried away here. Everyone knows that the biggest upset in the history of everything was Joey Chestnut's victory over Kobayashi in the 2007 Nathan's Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest.
Line is 6.5. It would be the seventh larget upset according to the betting line in SB history if Arizona won.Nice work Evilgrin, I was waiting for someone to post something like this.
Now, what is the early line on this superbowl?
What was the spread for that match? About 7-8 hot dogs?
Very
except to add that there is also a significant contrarian factor, two have posted in this thread that since it was possible to vote all five, they did.
at the 49ers being 18.5 favorites in 1994! Forgot the line was that high.
That was nice.
