Super Bowl Randomness

In honor of what is unfortunately the last football game for what will seem like forever, but good because that forever allows Tim Tebow to get better (and he will), some random stories from this morning.

Yesterday, the Patriots cut one of their wide receivers. The player took it well and since he played less than Chad Ochocinco, this probably wasn’t that surprising, other than it coming on the eve of the Super Bowl. The posting anticipated the thoughts of many who clicked through informing them that if the Patriots win today, the player will likely receive a ring.

On CBSSports.com, Gregg Doyel asks “It's the Super Bowl -- so why are we talking about Irsay and Peyton?” The column is critical of what the author describes as the owner and current, but maybe soon to be ex, quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts sucking coverage from the vacuum of Super Bowl week. What isn’t clear is if the Colts story bothers Doyel so much, why is he writing about other’s writing about it and not writing about the only story that really matters according to him? Columns about over coverage of one topic lamenting typeface wasted on supposedly irrelevant topics are double irrelevant. There is no lack of room for every silly story out there any time and it’s not certain that the actual teams playing the game actually mind, irrelevant coverage, not about them, allows them to concentrate. How about Peyton Manning owning the conversation on his recovery, forcing Colts owner Irsay into reactionary mode? That dude knows PR and whatnot.

Deadspin, the sports gossip website, re-printed Drew Magary’s Super Bowl chili recipe. There was a Facebook post the other day from someone looking for a chili recipe, there seems to be several ingredients core to a chili recipe with the rest comprised of whatever kitchen scraps happen to be available. Drew is a fantastic writer and the only one worth reading at Deadspin.

Joe Posnaski at Sports Illustrated writes that this year’s Super Bowl is unusual, unlike any other. Greg Garber at ESPN writes that there’s an undercurrent of revenge from the game four years ago when these same teams last met in the Super Bowl. Who knows? We’ll all know in about eleven hours.