I rest my case...

Excerpts from Mike Bianchi's column in today's Orlando Sentinel:

This is how the story should have ended.

Any other way would not have been right.

Any other conclusion would have been like "It's a Wonderful Life" ending with George Bailey actually jumping off of the bridge and drowning.

We wanted the Pittsburgh Steelers holding up that trophy.

We needed the Pittsburgh Steelers holding up that trophy.

If the Seattle Seahawks had won, it would have been the stuff of dull documentaries. The Steelers winning was the stuff of fantastic fairy tales.

The Pitsburgh Steelers may not have discovered America Sunday.

But they gave America the ending it so desperately wanted.


ENOUGH ALREADY! Stuff like this belongs on amateur fan blogs, not major newspapers! Have we sunk to the point where we are actually attaching good and evil to these teams and the outcome of these games? Worse, that people are actually buying into it?

Want a fairytale sports story? How about little St. Joe's almost running all of the way to the national basketball title two years ago? Or little Loyola-Chicago winning the whole ball of wax in 1963 (suffering racial abuse along the way)? The Steelers? Nice story, I guess. But fairytale-like? Good for America?

Please!

Now I understand why the refs did what they did yesterday. They were actually officiating in America's best interests!

Next thing I expect to read is that the jihadis were all cheering for the Seahawks...