Someday, I may forgive the Worst #%$%$ Call Ever, says the Raiders fan who was juked out of a Superbowl appearance on said Worst Call. But not yet. Long memory, over here. We quite like Tom Brady - he's a local boy - but long, long memories out here. He was stripped clean, the fumble was recovered by the opposition, someone upstairs realised that a bunch of guys called Patriots wearing (essentially) red white and blue (OUR colours! AMERICA'S team!) were about to nailed fair and square by a bunch of Bad Boys with pirate skulls on their helmets, and whoa, can't have THAT, someone make up a rule, quick...!

Um. Yep. Hot button, you betcha. But honestly, I'm also a 49ers fan, and I watched the definitive football dynasty of their era: Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, Steve Young, Ronnie Lott. And if a team is that good going in, they don't *need* the rulebook rewritten on the field to bail them out.

And I do not love their coach. Sorry, but there you go. Not even getting into the ethics or logic of rewarding a coach for sign-stealing by nominating him for coach of the year.

Still - as long as it's a good competitive game, I'm reasonably sure everyone who watches it will have a good time.