PITTSBURGH — A few minutes after the Pittsburgh Steelers won the AFC Championship Game on Sunday, coach Mike Tomlin pondered the question he knows will be asked a lot going into the Super Bowl.
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On the marquee promoting a surprising Super Bowl matchup, the featured actors will be the Pittsburgh Steelers and their star quarterback, Ben Roethlisberger.
GLENDALE, Ariz. — Down and out for decades, the Arizona Cardinals have turned a bad joke into a Super Bowl-bound team.
PITTSBURGH — Tough and mean, like the original Steel Curtain.
Brigham Young long has been known as Quarterback U, having produced a seemingly endless string of successful signal callers.
As Arizona went into the victory formation with 1:17 left, fans in the west-side stands chanted “U of A,” and they later stormed the Sam Boyd Stadium field as the clock ticked all the way down.
An IRS audit. A blown radiator hose in the midst of rush-hour traffic. Chickenpox.
If he spurns the NBA and returns to Arizona for another year, junior Jordan Hill will get the chance to play for his fourth coach. But don’t count on that happening.
The scoreboard usually is the final word, but Oregon coach Mike Bellotti didn’t let his team’s 30-point loss two years ago in the Las Vegas Bowl shake his belief.
Mike Stoops arrived in town with his Arizona football team Tuesday evening, put the Wildcats through a snow-flurried practice the following morning, stepped inside the Lied Athletic Complex at UNLV and answered questions about his program’s first bowl game in a decade.
UNLV wouldn’t turn down this record, and nor would most football teams.
I’m no expert on football. At Provo High School I played in the orchestra and wrote for the school paper. The flag-football team I captained during PE class lost every game. But what I lack in sports knowledge, I make up for in loyalty. I grew up in the shadow of “Y” Mountain and have been a solid BYU fan as long as I can remember.
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