News - Super Bowl 2010
Super Bowl Notebook: February 5, 2010
Posted: Feb 5, 2010 10:24 AM by Rob Kirkpatrick
Source: KATC
MIAMI (AP) - So much for the notion that only tall quarterbacks
are tailor-made for the NFL.
Drew Brees shot a big hole in that one.
The shortest full-time starting quarterback in the NFL, Brees -
all 6 feet of him, which even might be a tiny bit generous - will
try to lead the New Orleans Saints to a Super Bowl title on Sunday
when they face the Indianapolis Colts (and their 6-foot-5 four-time
MVP of a quarterback, Peyton Manning).
"Look at guys like Steve Young, Doug Flutie," Saints
third-string quarterback Chase Daniel said, referring to two other
diminutive, by NFL standards, players who weren't exactly the
prototype 6-foot-4, 220-pounders that draftniks rave about. "We're
following in their footsteps."
True, it might be the Saints coming up biggest on Super Bowl
Sunday, with what's likely the smallest array of quarterbacks on
any NFL roster.
Brees: 6-foot.
Daniel: 6-foot.
Backup Mark Brunell, he's the giant of the bunch, 6-1.
"We've got to be one of the shortest quarterback groups in the
NFL," Brunell said. "It just shows that it's not about the height
or your 40 (yard-dash) time or your arm strength. There's other
things that are important that go into making a pretty good
quarterback. ... It's not just about how tall you are. It's about
how tall you play."
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RUNNING MAN: Much has been made during Super Bowl week about how
the Indianapolis Colts have rushed for fewer yards than any other
NFL team this season.
Colts coach Jim Caldwell is still raving about running back
Joseph Addai.
Look past the stats - 219 carries, 828 yards, 10 rushing
touchdowns - that Addai put up this season, Caldwell said. The way
he sees it, those numbers alone don't come close to measuring
Addai's worth, since they don't show how he ran routes out of the
backfield and pass-protected for quarterback Peyton Manning.
"He's a guy that has to be able to catch and run after the
catch, that's extremely important," Caldwell said. "And he's
shown the ability to do all those things. He's an extremely
valuable guy for us."
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CAJUN STYLE: Forget Democrats. Forget Republicans.
These days, James Carville is focused on the New Orleans Saints.
"Right now, I'd rather see the Saints win the Super Bowl more
than anything," Carville said, when asked whether he'd prefer to
see a Democrat in the White House or a Super Bowl ring for New
Orleans.
The Democratic strategist will be at Sunday's Super Bowl, but
conceded he would have rather stayed in New Orleans to watch the
title game.
"I hated to leave," Carville said.
Carville and his wife Mary Matalin are co-chairs of the New
Orleans host committee for the 2013 Super Bowl, which will be
played in the Louisiana Superdome.
How will he hold up Sunday?
"I'm not going to be nervous," Carville said in his drawl.
"I'm going to have a nervous breakdown. Fall apart."
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WELL, SOMEBODY DOES HAVE TO LOSE: Count on the Super Bowl to
bring "110 percent effort" from players and some annoying cliches
from announcers.
So pollsters at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., asked
people planning to watch the game what all-too-familiar phrases
they could do without.
"It's too bad somebody has to lose" was the most dreaded,
cited by more than a third of respondents.
"They'll have to treat this like any other game," was No. 2
with a fifth of the votes and "That's a costly turnover," was
third. Rounding out the list was "It all depends on where they
spot the ball," (14 percent) and "He'd like to have that one
back" (12 percent).
Marist surveyed 730 U.S. residents from Monday through
Wednesday. The poll has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
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FORGET THE GAME: In Canada, the Super Bowl will have people
parked in front of their televisions.
About half, it turns out, will do so for the ads.
The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates 43 percent of
people polled tune in for the commercials and couldn't really care
about the game between the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans
Saints.
Only 33 percent of Canadians polled said they hoped to watch the
Super Bowl, roughly the same percentage who said they would watch
the Grey Cup game last November - the championship in the Canadian
Football League.
Among avid Canadian football fans, the Colts are about a 2-to-1
favorite. The telephone poll of just over 1,000 Canadians was
conducted between Thursday and Sunday. It is considered accurate
within plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
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