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Chiefs vs...no, I can't say it.

Kim Hollis: It's football time in America! Who are your picks for the Super Bowl this year?

Bruce Hall: I'm going out on a limb. I half believe this and half just want to make a pick almost nobody else will because...well...I am an iconoclast.

Dallas and New England.

Skeletor finally gets the Boys over the hump, and Tom Terrific and a revitalized Pats get back to the Big Dance. America's Team versus...America's Team, isn't that?

Pete Kilmer: Colts!

Matthew Huntley: I'm hoping it's "Da Bears"! But if I had to guess based on the opening weekend, I'd say the Packers (grrr) and New England, in which case I'd root for New England.

Reagen Sulewski: I don't think the Saints have lost anything of consequence from last year's team, and look poised to repeat. That said, I've put $1 on the Titans at 40:1.





Brett Beach: Brett who? (Or, as they said in Wisconsin, "We'll never forget you, Brent!") The Packers will bring the glory back to Green Bay and face the dark horse Ravens in the Super Bowl. It'll be close, but an interception by Charles Woodson will put the Pack over the top. And Brett can stew about it all summer...

(Thanks to my good friend Robin Tovey for the above insight. She is the only person I know who can hold forth as equally well on Jane Austen as on the weekly pigskin wrapup.)

David Mumpower: Speaking as the genius who predicted the Super Bowl participants during week one last year (I'm going to keep milking this until the cow dies and maybe even after that), I...have no chance at getting side right this year, next year or the year after. I've had my fluke of luck for a while. Having said that, I've come to agree with Brett (or Robin Tovey?) that the Packers strike me as the best of the best. Aaron Rodgers is on that short list for best QB in the world and Clay Matthews looks like a ruiner of worlds on defense. In the AFC, I hate to be boring about it, but I think that the Patriots are way up this year. They bit the bullet for a while in order to get younger on defense and I think that pays off in the playoffs.

Kim Hollis: Realistically, I think Baltimore and Green Bay could be the matchup. The fangirl in me would prefer Tennessee or Indy in the AFC spot, though.

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