Who Are You Pulling For In The Super Bowl?
by Jay Coulter on Feb 6, 2010 2:59 PM CST
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When the Super Bowl kicks off Sunday night, Auburn will have representation on both the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. Former Auburn defensive back Jerraud Powers will line up for the Colts and former Tiger fullback Heath Evans will represent the Saints. However, there's a chance neither will see the field. Evans suffered an ACL injury back on October 25th that ended his season. Powers is questionable for the Super Bowl after missing all of the AFC Championship Game with a leg injury.
Auburn will have had at least one player represented in the Super Bowl in 26 of the 44 Super Bowls, including six of the last seven. Powers and Evans will mark the 11th and 12th former Tigers to be part of Super Bowl teams in the last seven years.
Who are you pulling for? Vote in the poll below...
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….the first TrackEmTigers.com poll I haven’t voted in! I don’t really have a horse in this race, as usual. In truth, I like both organizations. We got spoon-fed a diet of the Atlanta Falcons during my formative years here in Birmingham, and the Falcons’ partner in ineptitude was the Saints. They were the arch-rival, but it was hardly a serious deal. It most mostly like blind kids chasing a rainbow. You’d usually see a fumble-penalty-interception-fest. A last second Bartkowski hail mary or a Morten Anderson field goal would end it with victory for one or the other. It was mildly amusing, like a Three Stooges movie.
…..I was a HUGE Johnny Unitas fan as a kid. I had a set of Baltimore Colts PJs, with the number 19. When Irsay and co. moved the Colts to Indianapolis in the middle of the night, I was sick at my stomach. Low, it was. I have always enjoyed watching the Mannings, though.
…..Unless it rains like crazy, this Super Bowl will be a score-fest. Both teams present serious challenges on offense. Brees and Manning love to see a blitz. You know a big play is coming, when the other team goes man and starts sending folks. Without a healthy Freeny, the Colts will play “keep it in front.” The Saints are a big-play team. Will they be able to be patient? The Saint D-front is hardly the most feared in the league. And of late, Manning and Co. have been REALLY good at grinding it out and eating clock. Lastly, the Colts have been here before. The Saints haven’t. Experience edge: Colts.
…..I figure the Colts win in a 7-10 point game. I don’t much care who wins. I’m going to have a drink and enjoy it regardless.
…..Obligatory Tebow-advertisement weigh-in! I’m a strong pro-choice guy. Yes, abortion is murder. But that’s solely the mother’s decision. Are we a free country, or not? (Pretty much NOT, actually.) At times, I have favored “retroactive abortion.” Teenage kids will do that to you! All kidding aside, I’m mostly a proponent of free speech. There’s nothing wrong with exhorting folks to not have abortions. I don’t see it as controversial. Tebow’s group has come up with the money for this ad. It doesn’t contain bad language or wardrobe malfunctions. Why censor it? If the pro-choice crowd is so riled up, why not pony up for an ad of their own? I think the whole “should the ad play” bit has been blown totally out of proportion!
So if I murdered someone in your family, it should be allowed because it’s my choice? I’m going to starve my kids. Hey, it’s my paycheck. It’s my choice what to do with it.
Maybe you have some other reasons for supporting abortion, but It’s ridiculous to simply say it’s a choice and act like that settles it.
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Zoltar...
…..if you carry an embryo inside your body, I support your choice to end it. The other stuff you postulated… no. It’s an immense responsibility carrying a child to term. I don’t trust government to successfully collect our garbage, much less legislate morality on mothers, who are most likely the wisest of us all.
…..That said, I’d advise anyone in my family against abortion, and I’d pony up food, lodging, and love to try and prevent it. But that’s my choice, not Uncle Sam’s. I know you’d do the same if it were one of your family members.
I don't think it's a question of morality
The government legislates morality on all of us (murder, rape, robbery are all illegal). This question is more of a degree question for me. No one would think a mother killing her two-week old would be a good thing, but, tracing back to the point of conception, when does it become “okay” to kill the baby?
by HarveyBirdmanAAL on Feb 8, 2010 8:40 AM CST up reply actions
I agree with Acid about the speech, I just saw the Tbow ad...it was tastfully done
They should be able to express their views like anyone else in America as long as it doesnt harm anyone. I am pro life personally but believe we live in a free country and it is the choice of the mother and not anyone elses up to a point. I am not such a black and white thinker that I want to say Abortion is not ok under any circumstance. Although I know there are those that believe that and they have a right to that belief just as I have a right to mine.
Screw the 'aints....
go Indy. But it wouldn’t kill me if the ‘aints won. Obligatory Tebow weigh-in. I’m a strong pro-choice guy as well and no I don’t think it’s murder. The super bowl shouldn’t be a platform for politics or religion……it’s obnoxious and the wrong time……but that being said I don’t care enough to get bent about it. The opinion of a kid (and yes that includes Tebow) isn’t going to change my religious or political views.
I would have gone to bammer if my grades hadn't been good enough to go to AU
Not sure how you could have religious views
and still be pro choice… unless those religious views are that religion isnt important??
by tidefanstuckatlsu on Feb 7, 2010 1:20 PM CST up reply actions
You know thats just it.....
they are my views and don’t have to be explained or defended to the likes of you. Religion is a personal matter and your approval or disapproval isn’t nessecary.
I would have gone to bammer if my grades hadn't been good enough to go to AU
If you live in the south,
you’ve got to pull for the Saints (although I was pulling for Minnesota last week out of respect for and a show of solitude with the over 40 qb).
Wrong
Falcons fan…hate the Saints.
Upon moving to AL, I let my wife decide who she would root for. After one day at a new job full of Bama fans, she met me at the door with a hearty cry of "WAR EAGLE"
by SandMountainTiger on Feb 6, 2010 10:28 PM CST up reply actions
come on Barners
Colts leading the poll?
where’s the love for a deep south team?
WHO DAT!
(Colts are going to destroy them tho)
January 7th, 2010: the day I went from being a delusional obnoxious Alabama fan to being an obnoxious Alabama fan
Sorry
as you can see I live in Indy…..Colts all the way!!!!!!!!!
I've seen good TEAMS beat teams with great individuals.
The media was right!!!
It’s like Katrina never happened! And now the Saints are America’s team!!! PBBBBBBT.
Upon moving to AL, I let my wife decide who she would root for. After one day at a new job full of Bama fans, she met me at the door with a hearty cry of "WAR EAGLE"
by SandMountainTiger on Feb 8, 2010 1:39 PM CST reply actions
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