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RUSH: Greetings, my friends. How are you? Hope you\u2019re fine and dandy. One of the biggest holiday weekends of the year, and I\u2019m still stunned that our esteemed leaders have not turned it into a three-day weekend with Monday off. Probably because it does not benefit the ski industry.<\/p>\n

JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it\u2019s Open Line Friday!<\/p>\n

RUSH: You do know that that\u2019s why there\u2019s a lot of Monday holidays in February? Oh, yeah, the ski industry lobby. Fine with me. You got 92 million people not working; what\u2019s another Monday holiday? <\/p>\n

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Anyway, folks, it is Super Bowl weekend, and, as such, we\u2019re gonna have our straight Super Bowl pick. I could tell you that now, if you want. I\u2019m leaning toward the Seahawks here for one reason, only one reason. I think it has to do with the defense. I think the Seattle defense can keep Peyton Manning off the field. I think their defense, I\u2019ve studied it, folks, I\u2019ve looked at tape, and the Seattle defense has the ability to prevent Denver\u2019s long drives, time, clock-chewing drive. Now, whether they will or not is another thing. <\/p>\n

By the way, there\u2019s a story here in the Stack about Peyton Manning and what it is like to play with this guy. It isn\u2019t a vacation. I mean, he\u2019s intense. There is never a second of wasted or downtime at a practice. If Manning in practice makes a mistake and throws a pick, and the defensive back drops the pick, Manning chews out the defensive back for goofing up on his mistake, one example. <\/p>\n

Manning was nursing an injured ankle. He was in the cold pool while practice was going on. He had his iPad, reviewing plays, game tape, whatever, and he was wearing his quarterback helmet so that he could hear the offensive plays being called in practice, while he\u2019s in the training room in the cold pool, sitting there with his feet in the cold pool, shorts and a T-shirt wearing his helmet. There\u2019s a picture of it<\/a>. <\/p>\n

<\/a>Anyway, if Seattle\u2019s defense is not able to get Broncos off — now, you may think this makes perfect sense and common sense and isn\u2019t anything special. And you\u2019re right. Best offense against the best defense, and the weather\u2019s not gonna be remarkable for either team. They\u2019ve both played in temperatures like this. It\u2019s gonna be dry. The wind isn\u2019t gonna be a factor, so I don\u2019t think that\u2019s gonna matter a hill of beans, and I don\u2019t know how much it would anyway, unless it was really inclement, which it isn\u2019t going to be. <\/p>\n

The one thing about Seattle, they\u2019re gonna have to do that or they don\u2019t have a prayer because they don\u2019t have anywhere near the scoring machine. They\u2019re gonna be depending on their running game for that unless Russell Wilson has a career game, it\u2019s entirely possible. But that\u2019s just my early feeling on this, and it\u2019s really not any more complicated. I don\u2019t go in for destiny. It\u2019s Peyton\u2019s last game. Peyton\u2019s gotta win it here. Brother\u2019s in trouble with fake gear. I don\u2019t go in for that kind of stuff being a factor. I just look at the X\u2019s and O\u2019s and the two teams.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks just don\u2019t have an offense to keep up with Denver if their defense can\u2019t keep Peyton off the field. If they keep Peyton off the field they\u2019re in the game and they have a chance. And they do have the best defense in the league, and of course Denver is the best offense. <\/p>\n

Now, the environmentalist wacko pick is an entirely different proposition, and that will come up later in the big broadcast. It\u2019s Open Line Friday, and that means that whatever you want to talk about is okay. (interruption) Somebody just sent me a note, “What about the gay pick?” The gay factor is part of the environmentalist wacko pick<\/a>, which team is more pro-gay, that\u2019s a factor in the environmentalist wacko pick. I\u2019ll reveal that when we get to the environmentalist wacko pick. It will probably be in the third hour. <\/p>\n

Anyway, Open Line Friday. Normally Monday through Thursday you have to talk about things I care about to keep me interested, \u2019cause if I get bored it\u2019s gonna sound boring to people, they\u2019re gonna tune out and that\u2019s not good. But on Friday that\u2019s the great risk. I throw that out, and whatever you want to talk about, pretty much okay, and I take it upon myself as a challenge to make whatever, even the most dull, boring thing sound interesting. Now, normally that doesn\u2019t happen. Normally you probably couldn\u2019t tell the difference week to week in an Open Line Friday versus a standard Monday-through-Thursday show. But sometimes you never know. <\/p>\n

This Super Bowl has stood out for me in one way that, for example, Super Bowls here in south Florida have been remarkably different. And I could be missing things, but I read constant media everywhere, and I haven\u2019t read very much at all about parties, late-night social life, knock-down, drag-out party affairs. It\u2019s striking, and the reason why it strikes me is because New York is a party town. New York has club after club and place after place that\u2019s open \u2019til four o\u2019clock in the morning. <\/p>\n

<\/a>I see the Broncos were at a pizzeria. Nothing wrong with pizzerias, but Club K it isn\u2019t. I\u2019ve kind of been struck by that. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the cold weather or what. More likely it\u2019s just too big a task to get into the city from their hotels in Jersey City and get back. They\u2019ve got a 1am curfew, and most of these late-night places don\u2019t get going \u2019til 11:30 at night.<\/p>\n

Have you noticed this too? I mean, TMZ, there hasn\u2019t been much going on there at all at the Super Bowl, for the players, yeah. After the first couple of nights. It was a 1am curfew. That I think is for Denver. I don\u2019t know what the Seattle curfew is. Probably much the same. Most of these guys take it seriously anyway. But you got a Super Bowl here in south Florida, and the news is nothing but all the social stuff going on. It\u2019s all it is here in south Florida. And you can\u2019t go anywhere without encountering some Super Bowl bash or party. <\/p>\n

Now, New York, there is so much going on and it is so big that maybe it\u2019s the same amount of stuff just getting swallowed up in all the stuff that isn\u2019t Super Bowl related. I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s not a criticism; it\u2019s just an observation. I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s been 17 degrees in the daytime most of the week up there. That\u2019s got to have an impact on people going outside, being mobile. (interruption) It\u2019s what? Oh, yeah, the game is sold out. Well, there\u2019s no question. What are you worried about, the blackout? The game is sold out. <\/p>\n

The problem with tickets is that a lot of brokers get tickets. That\u2019s called the secondary market, and they\u2019re having trouble moving them at higher-than-face-value prices. They won\u2019t have any trouble moving them at face value. What is interesting is that hotels that are within close proximity to the stadium have rooms. They\u2019re begging. I don\u2019t know what the situation is in Manhattan, but New York\u2019s got more hotel rooms than they need anyway. I don\u2019t know what kind of a measure that is. <\/p>\n

If you\u2019re going to the Super Bowl, where do you want to stay? Manhattan. The only thing happens in New Jersey is Sunday. Everything else is happening in Manhattan. So you want to stay there. I don\u2019t know if that\u2019s a big deal, either. It\u2019s just different from what it has been. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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