Perfect Season or Stunning Upset, This Super Bowl Should Deliver

We are just hours away from the biggest sporting event in the world that is played in less than one turn of the earth on its axis.

Baseball is America's pastime but football is America's passion and reflects the spirit of most Americans better than the Grand Old Game. We don't like to sit around waiting for the next pitch, we face life head on, sometimes helmet to helmet. If something isn't working for us we try another formation and if we're down and the clock is ticking we may even get religion and try a Hail Mary or two.

My favorite two days before the Super Bowl is the wildcard weekend where teams with their backs against the wall, despite qualifying for a spot in a playoff game, battle it out to the end in the perfect bridge between the regular season and the playoffs. Sometimes, like both contenders this weekend have done in the past, they dig their way from the bottom of the wild card heap and go on to play in a Super Bowl.

The Patriots as of this writing are 12 point favorites with the over under at 54 points. The Patriots are looking for their fourth Super Bowl win in seven seasons, while the Giants are looking for their third Super Bowl win with four pre-super bowl era titles. Impressive as the Giants title record is, the victories are spread out over seven decades and hall of fame players like Y. A. Tittle and Lawrence Taylor, who are eras apart. The concentration of Super Bowl wins and talent on the Patriots in our time, with Bill Belichick's ability to motivate them and complement each others abilities will create a log jam of Patriots Hall of Fame contenders in the years to come.