It's The Super Steelerio Bros. Super Bowl

Notwithstanding the Post-Gazette's illustration this year of a mechanical Steeler Godzilla fighting a monstrous Raven, my favorite football-related graphic of theirs is this super-dreamy Ben Roethlisberger portrait, dating from their 2006 AFC Championship coverage, which looks like it was drawn on the inside cover of a twelve-year-old girl's Trapper Keeper with something like "Mrs. Stacey Roethlisberger" written in loopy cursive in the margins of all the pages. I can't properly express the tone of the P-G's coverage of the last Super Bowl run without using a word Jack once forbade me ever to use around him again (that word is "Roethlisboner") but the P-G's coverage of this year's playoffs has been more staid -- I believe because the team's postseason run seems less improbable; because Roethlisberger is no longer a young phenom; and because Big Ben's head, due to the combined effects of age / dozens of quarterback sacks / motorcycle accident, looks a lot less like the fanciful, mannishly pretty image above than like a big potato with a goatee on it.

At any rate, thanks to the customary two weeks of Super Hype there's nothing more that I want to read, say, or think about the game before its refreshingly early 3:30 Pacific time kickoff. I am excited. Go you Steelers.