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As the Pigskin Bloggers do prep work for Monday morning's big blog report and Monday night's Pigskin Bloggers Live Super Bowl Extravaganza radio show, we thought it best to post seemingly random SB-related news & notes to wet your whistle during the first no-football weekend since last summer...

· Sportz Assassin is full of nuggets to back up his claim that Philly will win 27-20. 1) "The Pats are 2-11 in their last 13 trips to Florida (Miami, Tampa, Jacksonville)." 2) "The underdog has won 12 Super Bowls…including two of the last three. 3) If Brady gets pressured into hurrying up… he will make mistakes."

· Football One-on-One is mailing out free t-shirts to visitors of his Super Bowl site.

· Ravens Blog is selling 'Fear the Eagle' green rubber bracelets for tsunami relief.

· Belly Check says, "Donovan's mom better make plenty of soup, because it's quite possible that several Eagles will be incapable of eating solid food after they get the curb-stomping that they so richly deserve on Super Bowl Sunday."

· Raiders Ramblings says, "Patriots repeat as champions, and the known universe endures another year of the sporting world's most obnoxious fans."

· A distraught Peyton Manning has been spotted in Cabo telling waiters to call him Javier Lopez.

· Watch the somewhat-lame Budweiser video spoof of Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction that will not air during the SB XXXIX telecast.

· Get the story on the newest Eagle, Jeff Thomason, who was a subcontractor as recently as 12 days before the SB.

· Buy all kinds of Super Bowl XXXIX gear, including a butt-ugly, yet best-selling, Eagles NFC Championship cap.

· Watch "top-5" video from AOL Sports: 1) Best Super Bowl Catches (Phil McConkey sighting! 2) Greatest SB Runs (the Diesel forever on 4th-and-1) 3) Memorable Playoff Moments (the Music City Miracle for me) 4) Plays of 2004 (McNabb's 14-second scramble and 60-yard pass)

· Snicky snack on Super Bowl lists: 1) 10 Most Memorable SB Moments 2) 5 Super Bowl Goats 3) 5 Super Bowl Heroes 4) LT and 9 More 'Where Are They Now's

 Fridge has one more SB TD than Sweetness.

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• #1 Comment from tengwl 
  1/30/05 8:59 PM | Permalink

   7 points is a lot over a team that really only lost one game this year before calling it a season after 14 games with the NFC Least and home field wrapped up. Everyone is eager to look at the Eagles rundefense early in the year.  Yet strangely, no one remember that this is the first season with 2 new CBs starting following the departure of T. Vincent and B. Taylor last year.  Sheppard and Brown had pretty decent years too.  But early in the year Jim Johnson and Andy Reid made sure his DBs had some help.  People are eager to forget the fact that C. Simon arguably the Eagles best DT help out of training camp and came back a step slow, only picking up his game after finally shedding the extra cheesesteaks late in the year... sorry Corey you dress well, but you were not ready to play most of the year.  Kearse was nicked up and Burgess out.  Now throw in a newly motivated Trotter at mid season with a commitment to stop the run and trust in defensive backfield with 3 Pro Bowlers.  
   Not many choose to remember RunDMC's cracked rib vs. Carolina (that Don McNabb to you) and Westbrook's absence.  And let's keep in mind the rule changes designed to give our maligned receivers not named Owens some space off the line.
   The Patriots are a great team. The DBs are banged up, they are missing Seymour.  Brady, a great QB and a real good guy has yet to show he can do it on the run which he may have to do this week.   Comparisons between Brady and Montana?   This week he may have to win the game, and elevate himself if the Eagles, as I envision, prove themselves to be on par or better with the mighty Patriots.  
   I look back on all of these things, my perceptions of the facts, and see an Eagles victory... then again who knows, my cheesesteak delivery has just arrived.  
  
  TenGWL
  T.P.