All right, all right

Contrary to popular belief, and some comments we've received to this effect, we are in fact aware here at No Mas that there is a football game of some import on the horizon. And to show you how much we LOVE the Super Bowl and all the hype that surrounds it (just love it really) starting today we're going to bring you the No Mas Super Bowl of the Day every day right up until the Big Day itself, that holiday of holidays, that game of games.

Let's this get this party started right by kicking it back to January 25, 1998, when Jiggity John Elway finally got the monkey off his back and won hisself a ring. Denver 31, Green Bay 24. This was definitely one of the most dramatic Super Bowls of them all. The Broncos were 11 1/2 point underdogs going in, making this the third biggest upset in Super Bowl history, behind the Jets over the Colts (Jets were 18-point underdogs) and the Pats over the Rams (Pats were 14-point dogs, funny to remember that).

You had Terrell Davis and The Migraine. You had Elway and The Dive. You had Elway and The Redemption. In general, there was some real Peyton Manning-type shit in the air, and there seems to me to be a definite similiarity between Elway and Peyton - two altogether-too-perfect-for-their-own-good type All-American snotbags who have all-world careers and yet get branded as losers. Probably for Peyton the best thing he could do is lose this Super Bowl, because if he wins it no one will ever like him. But if he loses, and keeps at it for another decade, and THEN wins one, maybe he'll get that Elway rebound thing where everyone decides, all right, this chowderhead has been around long enough, we like him now. You have to remember, Elway was universally despised for years before this lovable lose crap started. By the time that third quarter drive started, though, holms had all of America rooting for him. We're a fickle lot, no doubt.