Man, I hate this attitude. There are those out there who believe that because the Super Bowl doesn’t have players on the opposing teams who hate each other, becaise it doesn’t have teams from big markets, because it doesn’t have an attention-starved, me-first dickweed like Terrell Owens, because it doesn’t have a hick choke-artist who’s dating a country music superstar…that it’s boring.

I just hate that attitude. The teams that have earned a place there are there. This is not professional wrestling. If you’re upset because you don’t think King Kong Bundy should get to challenge for the title at Wrestlemania, then fine, feel free to bitch… because it was someone’s poor decision who put him there. But the Steelers and Seahawks are there because they earned those spots. That’s how it works. That’s the very nature of sports. If you don’t like it, you don’t like sports. Go watch American Idol.

Some quotes from yesterday’s Daily Quickie, who has dubbed Super Bowl XL “Super Bore” and “Whoop-de-do-per Bowl”…

NFL fans have become spoiled by the Pats dynasty; even this season, our expectations were that we’d see the most improbable Pats title of all — or at least the breakthrough of Peyton Manning and the Colts.

There’s simply not the drama of years past. Can’t Shaun Alexander go a little “T.O.” on us, just to spice things up?

Even a Freddie Mitchell imitation from Matt Hasselbeck would make things more interesting at this point.

It doesn’t matter that the Spurs or the White Sox were worthy champs. Excellence has taken a backseat to our jones for outsize drama.

Maybe you jones for outsize drama. I jones to see who’s the best. I want to see who’s going to be the World Champion. That’s enough for me, because I like sports. If you need outlandish characters and plot twists, give up sports and go watch Desperate Housewives or something.