Obama follows Pepper lead and PIcks the Steelers

Although he won't admit to watching the video, President Obama choose the Steelers as did Pepper to win the Super Bowl.

"I have to say, you know, I wish the Cardinals the best," Obama replied. "You know, Kurt Warner is a great story, and he's closer to my age than anybody else on the field. But I am a long-time Steelers fan." 

see the story in the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/29/AR2009012903196.html

PICKS: ALL SUPER BOWL PICKS

The following is a review of Pepper's Super Bowl Picks:

Super Bowl Winner: Steelers (watch)
Super Bowl Over Under 46.5 Points: Under (watch)
Super Bowl Coin Toss Heads or Tails: Tails (watch)
Super Bowl First to Score: Cardinals (watch)
Super Bowl First Score type will be either Touchdown or Field Goal (no safety - that will be considered a draw): Touchdown (watch)

PICK: SUPER BOWL XLIII - CARDINALS VS. STEELERS

After a week of (suffering with no football on TV) sleeping, eating, thinking, a grooming, researching, napping, and more sleeping, my conclusion on who would win Super Bowl XLIII came to me as a rather simple pick: THE STEELERS. Basically, in all my postings, I've touted that I'm a fan of importance of defense when playing football and if you look at who the Steelers had to beat to make it to the Super Bowl vs. the Cardinals, the Steelers too the "tougher" route vs more defensive minded teams and they won by playing BETTER DEFENSE. I think the game will be close, but in the end the Steelers defense will come though in the 4th quarter when it counts. Be sure to check out my other picks on some of the other aspects of Super Bowl XLIII: the coin toss, first score, first team to score and the over / under.

"HUMAN EXPERT" Picks

only 3 out of 10 Human "experts" followed the Poodle's lead in a Cardinals vs Steelers Super Bowl. We'll see how things go, I think these Cardinals are a bunch of tough birds and you can't use that Thanksgiving Day game a gauge of what is happening now.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/features/talent

PICK: AFC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME: RAVENS @ STEELERS

Will anyone score? Will anyone make a 3rd down conversion? So glad this is the late game. It will be cold, dark and nothing but hard hitting DEFENSE!!! Nothing is better then a close, nail biting defensive game where you site on the edge of your dog mat right next to the TV just barking at every play. Either team can win this game but I have to make a choice, and the Steelers are just playing mistake free football like they are on a mission to make it to the Super Bowl.

PoodlePick: STEELERS probably by less then a field goal.

Pick: Chargers vs. Steelers

This is going to be one of those classic hard fought, down to the wire, doggie eat doggie football games... in the end, I think the Chargers and their coach can pull out a classic upset to make it to the conference title game.

Poodle Pick: Chargers