Super Bowl fever hardly registers here, right?

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February 2, 2012

By Raymond Linex II Corsicana Daily Sun The Corsicana Daily Sun Thu Feb 02, 2012, 02:48 PM CST

Corsicana — It’s the day after National Signing Day, the day of high school realignment. Coaching change talk can be found. The Super Bowl looms.

But does it feel right?

Living in North Texas, has getting geeked up for the Super Bowl become harder to do? Would it help if it were not 70 degrees so often lately.

Obviously, the magic solution for getting fired up about the Super Bowl around here would be a Cowboys appearance. But I digress from reality. (Go ahead and tear me up on Facebook, Cowboys fans. I’d love to see them there too, but the organization has some growing to do.)

In North Texas, you can find a Super Bowl party close. You get on one of those football boards. We all have television.

But again, it just doesn’t feel like Super Bowl week.

Could it be the matchup? Maybe. At least one person I know in Kerens is surely still lamenting Green Bay’s fall, but the Patriots and Giants qualify for a marquee matchup. I’m sure I’ll catch every play Sunday at a party near you, but this isn’t 1993, when those same Cowboys who were awful for so long got so good that they thrashed Buffalo, 52-17.

Regionally, that’s not a fair comparison … at all.

But speaking of regions, let me suggest another reason maybe the lights are a little bit dimmer in the area for sports’ biggest stage this weekend: Choices.

The North Texas area no longer can be considered a one-horse town. There are two stars in the Metroplex shining brighter than Jerry’s boys — the Texas Rangers, and the defending NBA champion Dallas Mavericks.

So bring it on. We’ll all watch. But pitchers and catchers report in 20 days.

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Too bad retro-uniforms don’t make appearances in the postseason. The old white helmeted-New England Patriots look would be cool this weekend. Of course, superstitions might play a small part.

Chicago bombed the Patriots in Super Bowl XX, 46-10, in those old white-helmeted unis. (I actually liked Craig James back then.)

That’s too bad for the Broncos. They won two Super Bowls with their current look, but were 0-4 with their Orange Crush-era jerseys. I’d become a Broncos fan again — in a heartbeat — if they’d go back to the shiny blue helmets and orange jerseys. Even with Tim Tebow as their quarterback.

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Having some fun with this weekend, a look back to GC Football ’11, which came out in August, shows that no one on the panel of 12 Pickin’ Line “experts,” and yes, I use that term loosely, picked the Giants to make it to Indianapolis. Nine of the 12, however, picked New England to represent the AFC. I was among the three who thought Baltimore would make it, and boy were we close … as in a dropped pass in the end zone, or kick wide left.

Seven of those nine did pick the Patriots to win it all. Good luck fellas, and both ladies.

Patriots 27, Giants 21. Tom Brady doesn’t get denied again.

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Raymond Linex II is publisher of the Corsicana Daily Sun. His column appears on Thursdays. He may be reached by email at rlinex@corsicanadailysun.com. Want to “Soundoff” on this column? Email: soundoff@corsicanadailysun.com

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