<p>I am in need of a team to root for on Superbowl Sunday. Which one should I choose, and why?</p>
<p>Well, this thread could get interesting!!!</p>
<p>Reasons to root for the Packers:
- You can have a “cheese” themed Super Bowl party. Who doesn’t love cheese fondue?!
- Aaron Rodgers is pretty easy on the eyes to look it.</p>
<p>Ok, some more serious reasons (though ^^those are reason enough for me!)
- The Green Bay franchise is down-home football at it’s best. I mean, the townspeople show up to shovel out the stadiums bleachers prior to gametime!<br>
- The team has taken lemons and made lemonade. Rattled with injuries earlier in the season, the players have pulled together - not just 1st string players - to come back from a deficit season and steam roll into the Superbowl!
- DEFENSE. Their defense has reigned in the past several games in a stellar fashion.
- The Packers team has fought to get in this position today. They were not considered an “A” team at the beginning of the season, aren’t coming off a stellar season last year or the last few years so to speak - they have just plucked off the competition one game at a time. </p>
<p>How am I doing? Am I convincing you yet??? :)</p>
<p>Another reason to root for the Packers: The team owners. A team owned by individual stockholders (most of whom own one share of the team and have it framed and hanging on the wall of their retro-70’s, panelled basement!) - good grief, the team is run like a non-profit! Think of it - no obnoxiouly wealthy team owner threarening to move the team to another city if he doesn’t get a new stadium.</p>
<p>And oh, yeah, there’s Aaron Rodgers…</p>
<p>Agree with all of the above–Go Packers!</p>
<p>Root for the Packers. </p>
<p>My husband works for the Steelers’ rival. He is on the sideline at every game. When in Pittsburgh, the Steelers fans have thrown pennies, batteries, and bottles at him. He’s just there doing his job. Yet that’s how the fans treat the visiting team. People like that don’t deserve to have Super Bowl champs in their home town. </p>
<p>(PS: I have posted about this fan behavior before and been called a liar. It is the absolute truth. I will ignore any poster who doesn’t believe me.)</p>
<p>Another reason to root for the Packers: during training camp in Green Bay, kids will line up with their bikes at Lambeau Field. The Packer players will then borrow a kid’s bike to ride to the practice field (with the kid hitching a ride on the bike or walking along beside.) Some players pick the same kid every year and some rotate to a new kid every day. ESPN has had stories about the practice.</p>
<p>Sounds hokey, but it’s cute - especially when a 300-lb lineman chooses a little girl’s bike with pink streamers.</p>
<p>Reason to root for the Packers: Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger remains the best proof that being a great football player does not require being a great human being, or even being a minimally socially acceptable human being. Aaron Rodgers, the Packers QB, is much better looking, and whatever horrible things he does he at least keeps them mostly out of public view.</p>
<p>Another reason to root for the Packers: They essentially fired Brett Favre in favor of Rodgers (see above re Ben Roethlisberger).</p>
<p>Another reason to root for the Packers: The Steelers have won the Super Bowl 6 times already, more than any other team. It’s time to regress towards the mean.</p>
<p>Reasons to root for the Steelers: They are probably a better football team. They have an African-American coach, which is still a relative rarity, and he’s the first head coach ever to make two trips to the Super Bowl before he turns 40. Just about everyone is jumping on the Packers bandwagon. And those Cheesehead things are really lame!</p>
<p>The NFL’s history basically begins with the Packers and yes, the town lives, eats, sleeps Packers no matter how they’re doing. </p>
<p>I’m not a dyed-in-the-wool football fan, but I do feel a certain affinity to a team that has been operated and run the way the Packers have been. </p>
<p>I went to my first game at Lambeau this past year and the energy was unlike any other professional sports game than I’d ever been to.</p>
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<p>Reason to root for the Steelers - Mike Tomlin.</p>
<p>Grew up 2,000 miles from Green Bay but I’ve rooted for the Packers since grade school. However, this coming Super Bowl has the makings of one of the dullest games since the championship matches of the 1970s. The Steeler’s didn’t score in the 2nd half yesterday, and the Packers barely scored and might have easily lost the game to the Bears if the Chicago 3rd-string substitute quarterback had been a bit more steady. I think these two teams have scored less than 100 points total in their combined 5 post-season games. ZZZZzzzzz.</p>
<p>The Green Bay Packers are the ultimate small-market success story. Ya gotta love it that a northwoods town of just barely 100,000 people competes successfully with its locally-owned, mom-and-pop professional sports franchise against teams from mega-markets like Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Washington, etc. and their zillionaire owners. It’s unique in all of professional sports.</p>
<p>Go, Pack, go!</p>
<p>You can root for the Packers if you want, but you should know that you’ll be on the losing side of the equation. It’s Steeler Nation all the way. You will never find any truer fans than those of the Pittsburgh Steelers - It’s generational and runs very deep. And there is nothing more down home than Pittsburgh PA. Beyond the offensive tenacity, their defense is, in a word, unstoppable. And frankly… I’d MUCH rather spin a towel than wear some cheese on my head!</p>
<p>I don’t think anyone has owned a team with the longevity behind it like the Rooney Family, who founded the team! Plus, I also happen to know that Roger Goodell is a HUGE Steeler fan - and always has been!</p>
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<p>Wrong. The Packers alone have scored 90 points in their three post-season games, including a 48-21 shellacking of the top-seeded Atlanta Falcons. When Aaron Rodgers gets hot he’s almost unstoppable. He was on fire in the first quarter against the Bears but struggled later. For their part, the Steelers put up 31 against the Baltimore Ravens’ vaunted defense, to go with their 24 against the Jets. These have NOT been unusually low-scoring playoff teams.</p>
<p>That said, the Packers and Steelers have two of the toughest defenses in the NFL. I look for a low-scoring battle of two defensive titans, old-fashioned, hard-nosed, grind-it-out football. If that’s not your cup of tea, don’t watch.</p>
<p>Ben Sleazebag seals the deal for me. I’ll wear a cheesehead all day if it means he never wins another Superbowl.</p>
<p>Though I admit, it is cool that Omar Epps coaches the Steelers when he’s not busy playing Foreman on House.</p>
<p>Root for the Steelers. The Terrible Towel is much better than a cheesehead (and proceeds from the Terrible Towel benefit a school for people with disabilities in Pittsburgh). The Steelers colors are cooler too. Can’t go wrong with basic black. Steelers fans are great,Pittsburgh’s a great city (I admit I’m biased since I’m from there), Mike Tomlin’s a great coach, Charlie Batch is a hometown guy who has done alot for his community of Homestead (home of the Homestead Steel strike). Blue collar sports town. Go Steelers!
Ben has done some sleazy things and the team and League have dealt with him. Some of the Packers got criticized for going to a strip club.Unfortunately,I’ll bet Ben is not the only athlete that has used his celebrity to use women. Alot of athletes have big egos and do stupid stuff. Hopefully, Ben has wised up. He is a big part of the team but not the whole team- there are some great guys on that team and they represent a great city.</p>
<p>I hate to get sucked back into this thread, but… Aaron Rodgers loves those domed stadiums (see, for example, that last Atlanta game where he completed 86% of his passes.) He was merely mortal yesterday, although he did lay a fine tackle on Brian Urlacher.</p>
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<p>“Never find any” EXCEPT Green Bay Packers fans. That’s also “generational” and it also “runs very deep.” The Packers have sold out every game since 1960. The most prized item in any Packers fan’s will is the season tickets, and it’s a common practice among Packers fans to place newborn infants on the season ticket waitlist; historically it’s taken on average three decades on the waitlist to acquire season tickets, though it’s estimated that someone getting on the list today might have to wait 100 years.</p>
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<p>I think that was the most entertaining play of the game, followed closely by Raji’s interceptoin/TD.</p>
<p>totally agree with #18.</p>