A quick look at the stories surrounding the Super Bowl

I don’t know if you noticed, but I generally avoided discussing all the little storylines associated with the Super Bowl this year. In my mind, many of them are irrelevant, and a lot of them are annoying, Let’s cut through all of them from least pertinent/most annoying to the most pertinent/least annoying. - Ray Lewis is retiring: He is still playing in this game, right? Right. All this means is that the Ravens are going to rely on an old ILB to help defend against a run-first offense. - Ray Lewis may have used deer antler spray: Who hasn’t? But seriously, see above. - The Harbaughs are brothers! – As annoying and beaten into the ground as this angle is, it may be relevant to the game and not from a human interest aspect. Both guys have similar teams, with some subtle differences. The teams are defense first with strong ground games. The difference is that the Ravens have a better vertical game and a better secondary. The 49ers are better on the ground, and their front 7 is more dom...