I am Sorry Your Team is Going to Lose

Someone told me your team is expectecd to lose, all the papers say this. I translate from Le Devoir:

Super Bowl - Steelers in a new role
Edition of Tuesday January 31 2006

Detroit -- Steelers are the favourites, contrary to their preceding eliminatory matches in Denver and Indianapolis. And once more, they will not play in residence. But being given the proximity of Pittsburgh, Detroit could resemble more the city of steel that at the city of the car during the week of Super Bowl.

Several players of Steelers carried an old pullover of Jerome Bettis in the uniform of Our-Lady yesterday, a homage to the valorous carrier of balloon which will have the occasion to put an end to its brilliant career by gaining super Bowl in its birthplace Sunday. Remain to see how a team who had to gain his last seven matches to go up to that point will adapt to her new role of favourites.

Because it is now in Seahawks of Seattle that it is asked how one feels in the role of neglected. After two months during which one did not expect to see them gaining, here is that Steelers are found in a position where them season will be considered a failure if they do not gain Sunday. It is exactly what Bill Cowher wishes that they remember: Steelers in vain carried out an exploit by gaining three eliminatory matches over the road to go to Super Bowl, all that will not want more nothing to say if they do not beat Seahawks. "It is not a question of victories from one week to another, it acts to conclude the business", said the trainer little time after the arrival of its troop to Detroit, adding that the perception of the public can be different but that nothing changed inside the team.

Cowher recalled that Steelers will have an additional motivation for this last match, that is to say the possibility of gaining first Super Bowl since they gained their fourth in January 1980. Cowher is the first of it to be quite conscious since if it comes to the 14th rank for the number of victories in the history of the NFL, because it the succession of Chuck Noll, it took is considered only the second best trainer passed to Steelers. Those will want to thus gain for Bettis, like one says it for a long time, but also for Cowher, which presents one of the best cards in the trainers without to have gained Super Bowl.