My Super Bowl Pick

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 @ 12:56PM

I Have Never Picked a Super Bowl Winner

Here it is.....

I have never picked a Super Bowl winner.

It all started for me growing up in Charleston, South Carolina with no real NFL team nearby to pull for....The closest were the Atlanta Falcons and yes, they were horrible back then too. The Carolina Panthers were still 22 years away from birth.  So, my adopted team became the Washington Redskins during the George Allen era.  ‘The Future is Now’ was his battle cry.  That has a ring to it.  Sounds good to me.

Those ‘skins featured a pair of quarterbacks this flabby, curly-haired 13-year-old could relate to—Billy Kilmer and Sonny Jurgensen—slow, plodding, chubby and nothing special...ahhhh...the story of my life.

Finally, it happened.  It’s 1973 and my ‘Skins made it to Super Bowl VII in Los Angeles vs. the Miami Dolphins!!  Yes, those Dolphins.  The undefeated ones.  Shula, Griese, Csonka, Kiick, Little and a guy named Mercury.  Who cares?  Not me. Redemption is nigh!  Can it get any better?

The halftime entertainment you ask?  None other than the ‘great’ clarinetist Woody Herman--yes my friend , that Woody Herman.  Not so fast, PorkChop! (my nickname growing up).  The result, a 14-7 Redskin loss. The lowest scoring Super Bowl of all time...ugly....however, it could have been worse.  The Redskins only TD that day was a gift interception return on a pass by their Armenian kicker named Garo with two minutes left.  The game was 120 seconds from a shutout.  That hurt.

By the time my Redskins made it to the Super Bowl again 10 years later it was too late.  I had already leaped off the bandwagon before I could taste the ‘sweet nectar’ of victory.  1973 was much too painful.

I wish my Redskins had won that day. So, as a tribute to the ‘Over the Hill Gang’ here are my 2008 Super Bowl wishes......

I wish....the boys from ‘Queer Eye’ would step in and give Coach Bill Belichick a make-over.  Perhaps a Tom Landry-type business suit and a classic Bear Bryant hounds tooth hat.  Anything but that worn out hoodie. You’re on TV!
I wish....the game will live up to all the hype. It is sad when the commercials are more memorable than the game.
I wish….I had a name like ‘Plaxico.’ That’s just cool.
I wish....Super Bowl Sunday would become Super Bowl Saturday thus eliminating the awkwardness of sneaking out of church early.  Yikes!
I wish....I could be Tom Brady for a day.....he’s a champion, talented, young, handsome, rich, has a head full of real hair......need I explain?
I wish....Tom Petty would be the half time entertainment this year...What?  He is?  Right on!  At last, a wish comes true!!

My Super Bowl pick?  Giants 27-Patriots 24
Don’t take that to the bank.  My record speaks for itself.

Remember, I have never picked a Super Bowl Winner.

Thanks-

Keith Stubbs
Radio Guy, Comedian, Victim of Circumstance, Cowboy Poet........
http://www.keithstubbs.com

Keith Stubbs is a long-suffering amateur athlete who still has dreams.

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