TAMPA, Fla. -- You know it's a different Super Bowl when hotel rooms are available, ticket scalpers are on suicide watch and -- bear with me here -- someone thinks it's a good idea to have ME??? walk the red carpet and pose for paparazzi outside an ESPN party. It's one thing to experience an economic recession in this country, quite another to swallow a complete cultural meltdown.Yet once you're back in the real world, away from Lindsay Lohan and DJ Samantha Ronson in her pink-and black-striped fingerless gloves, a January tradition smacks you in the chops like, well, a Terrible Towel. If little else is certain in the world, the Pittsburgh Steelers have become an American constant, disregarding NFL parity and their smallish market to become the best-run franchise in professional sports. No? The Steelers are about to win their sixth Super Bowl trophy, their second in four years, and if there's another organization on the national scene that meshes the robust echoes of its past with 21st-century efficiency, then I must need a Lasik do-over. Because I'm not seeing it.
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