The NFL Sets Up a Sunday to Remember
Peyton Manning and Tom Brady one more time with the Super Bowl on the line would have been good enough all by itself.But in the embarrassment of riches that is the NFL this season, we get more. Much more.Two young superstar quarterbacks in the making squaring off in Seattle. Wes Welker against the team that wanted him no longer, and Anquan Boldin taking his new team on another championship run. A sideshow with Pete Carroll and Jim Harbaugh that might be worth the price of admission by itself.And a Super Bowl that will be a winner even if it's played on a sheet of ice.If this was the NBA, David Stern would have been accused of having the fix in. But it's just more of the same for the NFL, where the story lines and matchups are so good that it's almost a foregone conclusion next Sunday's TV ratings will blow past anything seen before for conference title games that are always big.About the only thing missing is a scrappy team of underdogs fighting for a berth in the Super Bowl, but there's no reason to quibble. Not with the brawny quartet of teams that all went into the weekend as favorites and all survived to play another day.The bookies in Vegas are laying odds — as they...
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