Of significantly greater importance to me than the Super Bowl is the news that the Chiefs have fired Herm Edwards.
This is important because I have been a Chiefs fan since I was a kid, and the past two seasons have been painful to watch. I was not encouraged when HBO's Hard Knocks series covered the Chiefs' training camp a couple of years ago and it became clear that Herm Edwards' IQ is not much higher than his age. I will probably never forget the image of him spending an hour writing a sign on a piece of cardboard with a magic marker like a five-year-old and then standing outside the team's facility holding up the sign as the players arrived for their first day. I looked at my wife, winced, and said, "not good." Six wins and twenty-six losses later, the nightmare is over. The speculation has been that the Chiefs would hire Todd ("Don't Call Me That") Haley, the Cardinals' offensive coordinator, though today the scuttlebutt is that Mike Shanahan is a possibility. All in all, a banner day in my life.
Oh yeah, I'm still picking the Steelers to win it all, as I did two rounds ago, but I'll probably be rooting for the Cardinals.
Don't hate the player, hate the game. The Lakers are awesome this year. And who needs an NFL team when I have DirecTV Sunday Ticket, perhaps the greatest media innovation of my lifetime.
