FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS, PART QUINCE

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SUBLIME

This Old Dog Beat The Young Pup

Super Bowl 50 featured "Superman", who all the pundits were calling the best quarterback in the game today - see what happens Aaron Rodgers when you give up that mantle - and "The Sheriff", who was called the worst quarterback to start a Super Bowl by FoxSports - who we know is the bastion of truth, justice and the American Way.

When the dust settled Peyton "The Sheriff" Manning was standing on the podium with the Lombardi Trophy while Cam "Superman" Newton was doing his best Marshawn Lynch and Bill Belichick impressions answering - and I say that while laughing out loud - questions before abruptly getting up and ending the post-game interviews in mid-question showing the real Cam Newton and not the fake modest Cam Newton who answered question after question after question even though it did get tedious and he said so during the week before the game.

Super Bowl Prediction and Hall of Fame Thoughts

Superman Cam

The smart money is on the Carolina Panthers to win Super Bowl 50. If I was actually putting money down I would have to back the Panthers even though I don't like Cam Newton.

However, Super Bowl 50 has a Super Bowl III feel to me, if not to anyone else in punditry or the rest of the civilized world for that matter. The last line I've seen has the Panthers favored by 5.5 points and not many people are picking the Broncos.

For those of you born after 1980 the Packers had won the first two Super Bowls pretty handily and the Baltimore Colts (yes, there was a team in Baltimore before the Browns moved in the middle of the night to become the Ravens) were the Panthers of 1968-69 going 13-1 behind backup quarterback Earl Morrall, who had taken over for the legendary future Hall of Famer Johnny Unitas, who had injured his passing arm in the preseason.

“Yes, Virginia, There is a Super Bowl”

Super Bowl 1

It's been brought to my attention that the Super Bowl is being played this Sunday. I knew one was going on but it didn't rise to something I thought I needed to comment on because it was between two teams I have no allegiance to, between two quarterbacks I don't like and, for that matter, it isn't a Super Bowl I'm much interested in since the Packers aren't involved.

Super Bowl 2

PACKER ALERT! Besides disliking Cam "Superman" Newton on a person level, it griped my butt when the Packers in week 9 could have been the first team to beat the Panthers, but lost a shootout after Aaron Rodgers got scared and didn't see a wide-open Randall Cobb in the right corner of the end zone for a TD to set up a two-point conversion, which Head Coach Mike McCarthy would have had to go for since the Packers needed it to tie the game and send it into overtime.

The L-Files

The Mini-Camp Picture That Started It All

Coach Mike McCarthy's first proclamation after he and Larry Fitzgerald single-handily ended the Packers season was Eddie Lacy was fat and that won't be tolerated next season. McCarthy added he needs to lose 30 pounds before the OTA's.