by Amaury Pi Gonzalez and Jerry Feitelberg

Super Bowl Sunday is huge and it’s big but for me it also is huge because it marks the time for the beginning of baseball season as spring training will be getting underway in Arizona. This is going to be a great Super Bowl. These are two excellent teams the New England Patriots and the Seattle Seahawks, I’m giving the edge to the New England Patriots because it’s their Super Bowl and the Patriots quarterback Tom Brady is looking for that fourth Super Bowl. A win today will tie him with San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana and Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw who have four wins each.

The Seahawks have one of the best defenses that we’ve seen in a longtime, the defense puts pressure on the offense their front four supply that pressure and you can see what happened last year when they just shut the Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning down. They shut the Broncos offense down last Super Bowl. They can do it again if New England has trouble blocking these guys and they can’t adjust to their schemes it could be a long afternoon for Brady.

The Patriots were the last team to win two Super Bowls in a row in 2004 and 2005 and the Seahawks are trying to win for the second time in a row. It’s tough in any sport to win two in a row, the Pats in their passing game have very complicated passing games and the defensive backs are going to have to adjust to it. The Patriots will put three guys on one side and will run underneath they have wide receiver Danny Amendola and their tight end Rob Gronkowski who’ll they’ll look to.

In the first half if Seattle can get down to Tom Brady and sack him a couple of times and send him a message early things could change in a hurry but for some reason you get the feeling Brady is going to have a very good game. Brady is a household name in this country unfortunately that deflated ball incident it was kind of weird and they haven’t blamed anybody yet. I’m afraid it’s going to be a ball boy to blame.

Then again nothing might not happen in Deflategate, it appears that its much ado about nothing, the league will say nothing happened. There is too much money involved this is a big show for the Seahawks and Patriots. It’s going to be close to 120 million people watching the whole game and over 150 million watching parts of the game. As far as commercials are concerned the first Super Bowl was in 1967 a 30 second commercial was $40,000, the 1967 household yearly income was $7,200.

The TV network is getting $4.5 million per 30 second commercial for this Super Bowl, some of the spots are good Pepsi has been good over the years, Budweiser has had some nice commercials. It should be interesting to see how it goes and you might have some of the high tech companies with their commercials it should be a fun afternoon of checking out the Super Bowl ads.

Amaury Pi Gonzalez and Jerry Feitelberg did commentary on Super Bowl XLIX for http://www.sportsradioservice.com to hear the rest of their podcast please click below