Edwin Pope: Hunch tells me Steelers will win

TAMPA -- Just thinking out loud, and wondering why this Super Bowl Week seems to grow quieter by the day -- maybe because of the feeling that Pittsburgh is going to crush Arizona so cruelly that it won't be a Super Bowl at all.

Super Bowl brings out the wild-and-crazy side of life

TAMPA -- If I'm lying . . . A man was walking down the main drag here with a string tied to a pigeon that had been water-colored red. ''I'm an Arizona Cardinal fan,'' he said -- the man, not the pigeon. ``But I couldn't find a cardinal for a mascot.''

Super Bowl coaches have much in common

TAMPA -- Not so very long ago, Mike Tomlin delivered one speech so inspirational that it left a group of college students actually weeping with emotion.

Edwin Pope | Meyer gets slight edge over Stoops

What we have in this BCS High Noon at Night, folks, are the two best coaches in college football. They are Urban Meyer and Bob Stoops, and I give an ever-so-slight edge to the Florida man over the Oklahoma gent strictly on the basis of who's hottest at this precise moment.

IN MY OPINION

Even early on, it seemed Ravens had this one in bag

This one never had an upside for the Dolphins. In almost each of the few games they lost this season, you could throw in a woulda-coulda-should. Not Sunday. The Ravens came here to crush the Dolphins, and did it like an elephant stomping an aluminum can, 27-9.

IN MY OPINION

Winning ugly is pretty with a defense like this

Raise your hand -- any hand -- if you can remember any defense getting pounded the way the Dolphins did Sunday without giving up a single touchdown. And winning.

IN MY OPINION

This was a game until composure was lost

Any time a football player starts pulling another's hair, you can be pretty sure the football game is over and total chaos has taken over.