It's Super Bowl Time Ahh yes, Super Bowl Sunday, the night cometh on the horizon which means I eat too much, drink far too much and spend the next day stumbling about like a demented zombie with vile indigestion and a desperate for rest - tradition dies hard in the Bromfield household, and I plan to keep my 22-year streak going, eat your heart out Cal Ripken, which in fact he probably is now he’s retired. The mate I watch the game with claims to hold The Superbowl record for Poppadoms eaten in a half of play and I don’t care to argue. The Super Bowl game itself marks a meaningful end to an NFL Season as I don’t pay any attention to the flag football game in Honolulu, and no matter how bad the media coverage is in the lead up to the game, it remains a spectacular event. You can’t beat the odd wardrobe malfunction to give you a laugh but generally once the game kicks off, it pans out as most others do and you can forget all the peripheral garbage that accompanies it. A few things I think 1. I think you’ve got to laugh at the way the media is “bigging up” Detroit this week as a hip place to go, and an underrated City. They’ve spent the last 30 years categorising downtown Detroit as a ghetto, and yet a few freebie hospitality trips and NFL Experience tents now apparently make it a hip destination. Hogwash, my sources tell me it’s still largely a toilet with two nice sports stadiums. 2. I think Nick Halling’s support for The Steelers might just make his coverage of the game a bit more interesting this Sunday night. It will be interesting to see his face afterwards if The Seahawks prevail. 3. I think our Editor’s capture of a Mirro Roder picture for the history annals of BUCPOWER.com shows a brilliant level of dedication – I also hear that the sighting on NASN allowed him to escape from a whipping from Tanith in the keenly fought Snakes and Ladders contest in which lay at defeat's door, before he was saved by Mr Roder. 4. I read this week that The Bucs seem to be paying more than a passing interest to top Tackle prospect D’Brickashaw Ferguson who is a consensus top 5 pick. As our first pick is down in the 20’s is something afoot at One Buc place? We have traded up for an O Line prospect before in Kenyatta Walker so don’t completely rule it out. 5. Nice to see The A Train win our most popular Buccaneer award. Personally I voted for number 55 but Mike Alstott is a more than worthy winner, particularly in light of his contribution this past year and the lengths he went to just to get on the field. 6. I think I read through the list of Buc players assigned to NFL Europe and for the second straight year hadn’t heard of a single one. They could be fictional names for all I know but good luck to them anyway – whether any of them ever make the field in a pewter and red uniform remains to be seen, but I won’t be holding my breath. As The Great Alan Patridge would say, “NFL Europe? Monkey Tennis.” With Joe Jurevicius in their line-up and what I believe to be the best Uni’s in the NFL, The Seahawks have my support this Sunday; eliminating The Twits also earned them the sufficient brownie points to take them over the top. However who I want to win, and who I believe will win are two entirely different animals and for what it’s worth I feel The Steelers will prevail in what could be a close one. Two great football maxims can be applied in my logic of choosing The Steelers – every Superbowl winner has been able to run the ball, and stop the run when they’ve needed it most and The Steelers more than The Seahawks fulfil this criteria. The other is that great defense always beats great offense in these type of games, and despite the arsenal of Hasselbeck and Shaun F Alexander, The Steelers D matches up well here too. Steelers 27-20 if I were a betting man, and as I am that’s where my money’s headed. Buccaneer wise the pleasing news this week has been the approach made by Derrick Brooks to start the ball rolling on contract restructure, in order to keep him on board for 2006. Interestingly I read that the top 15 wage earners on our payroll will be approached with regards to restructuring – why stick at 15, how about the top 45 and let’s see where we get to. We might find out that some of the restructuring involves getting cut, especially if your name is Edell Shepherd. The other relief is the news of a long list of suitors for Terrell “team man” Owens. Lets hope some receiver desperate team makes a trade and eliminates any chance of seeing this berk in a Buc uniform, ever – Denver look the current favourite to do the necessary. If your watching the game this Sunday, enjoy it and remember it’s be another eight months before you can sit down to another such contest. If your not watching it probably means you’re the Editor of this website! Nod of Acknowledgement to….. Denis Crawford. Love the new column Denis, makes me laugh out loud each week. Get in the Real World…. Joey Barton. Let's see now, in the past 18 months you have (in no particular order), kicked off a 20 man brawl in pre-season friendly, stubbed a lit cigar into the eye of a teammate, run over a pedestrian in the street at 2am, attacked a 15-year old supporter in bar during a club tour and your brother has been convicted of an axe murder. And after this you claim your team is not paying you enough respect by offering a paltry £28.5K a week, despite the fact that they have had numerous opportunities to sack you for gross misconduct. Words just fail me.