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Anything but the Super Bowl

Yeah. Yeah. The Super Bowl is Sunday.

You're probably wondering if I will use this column to write about the biggest football game of the year.

Nah. Not gonna do it.

I'd probably end up bashing the Patriots anyway. I'd probably end up calling Tom Brady and Bill Belichick pompous you-know-whats. I'd probably call them cheaters, too. And I'd probably call them the greatest team in NFL history should they beat the New York FootballGiants in Super Bowl XLII.

I'd probably say I'm kinda sorta rooting for them, forcing me to hand in my Moral High Ground Card and to sleep on the couch for a minimum of six nights and a maximum of the rest of my life. My fiance hates the Pats with uncommon zeal.

In this paragraph, I'd write how part of me still wants them to win so I can see history made.

I never thought I would see a team go 16-0, let alone 19-0 and win the Super Bowl.

I thought undefeated seasons were about as achievable as me getting Jessica Biel's phone number.

But I'm not going to write any of that. I'm going to pen a column about something else, like, say the odds of the U.S. badminton team coming home with a gold medal in Beijing this summer.

But if I were to write about the Super Bowl, I'd mention how I'm going to use my bad sports luck to my advantage.

Reason No. 2 to root for the Pats this Sunday: Rarely does the team I want to win the Super Bowl actually do it.

As a Buffalo Bills fan, I have grown accustomed to being very sad on Super BowlSunday night.

It doesn't even matter how cool the show that airs after the Super Bowl is, it can't cheer me up.

This year it is "House." Maybe he can diagnose why Tom Brady was wearing a boot on his ankle last week.

I have watched the Super Bowl every year since I was 10, or in Super Bowl numeral lingo, since I was XX.

This will be Super Bowl No. 27, whoops, XXVII, for me and five times the team I was rooting for won.

So, go Pats.

But you don't want to read any of that.

I know what you want to read. You want to know what I think about Manchester United's huge 2-0 win over Portsmouth that vaulted United back atop the Premier League soccer standings.

Don't we all.

ThatCristiano Ronaldo is pretty good.

But he's no Eli Manning.

If I was scribing a Super Bowl column, I'd mention how impressed I was with Manning and how the Giants are probably loving the fact that no one is talking about them and no one is giving them a chance to win this game.

Teams like that usually end up surprising everyone.

The last Giants team that advanced to the Super Bowl against a juggernaut offense as a huge underdog was the 1990 team.

Giants 20, Bills 19.

This is where I would make my Super Bowl prediction if this column was about the Super Bowl.

Giants 20, Patriots 19. Stephen Gostkowski wide right.

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