One team celebrated its Super Bowl invitation by angrily stomping across a rain-splattered patch of downtown pavement. The other team tearfully skipped around a bright mountain meadow.
One team's fans celebrated their Super Bowl invitation when a few fools threw popcorn on an injured opponent as he was being carted to the locker room. The other team's fans waved bright orange pompoms.
One team's nickname is associated with a glaring, swooping raptor. The other team's mascot rides in on a white horse.
The upcoming Super Bowl is a classic football matchup, and not only because it will be played in Tony Soprano's backyard amid potentially bitter cold and falling snow.
This year's game is about more than just the Denver Broncos versus the Seattle Seahawks.
This game is, in many public perceptions, about good versus evil.
The Broncos are seen as the lovable franchise that resounds with football history. The Seahawks are viewed as a reckless franchise that talks trash. The Broncos are known for enduring four Super Bowl losses by an average of 28 points before finally winning two titles. The Seahawks' only Super Bowl appearance was a loss filled with whining about the officiating.
Many of these comparisons are, of course, unfair. The Broncos and Seahawks are both long-suffering teams filled with mostly good guys and surrounded by powerful fan bases. In some ways, these former AFC West rivals from the NFL's remotest outposts are mirror images of each other.
But by the end of Sunday night's conference championship games, for the sake of a juicy two-week narrative, that mirror was cracked, differences were brushed off, identities were cast, and a powerful storyline appeared.
It now seems as if America will be cheering for the Broncos, if only because they are not the Seahawks.
It's about John Elway versus Paul Allen.
Elway is the rugged, tousle-haired face of Broncos, a beloved Hall of Fame quarterback who now acts as their vice president and ambassador. He won one of his two Super Bowl championships by spinning through the air like a stocky helicopter.
Paul Allen is that enigmatic billionaire dude who owns the Seahawks, Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle Sounders. He has never won a championship with any of them. He also never has done a helicopter move, although he does build spaceships.
It's about John Fox versus Pete Carroll.
Fox is the ruddy-faced guy with bushy gray hair and gravelly voice who is coaching the Broncos despite missing a month this season after undergoing heart surgery.
Carroll is the Seahawks coach who left USC just before the Trojans were placed on NCAA probation and has since presided over a team that leads the NFL with five drug suspensions in the last three years.
It's about Peyton Manning versus Richard Sherman.
Manning is the likable Bronco quarterback known for his pizza commercials, his "Saturday Night Live" appearances, his close family ties and his Southern brand of humble sportsmanship.
Sherman is the feared Seahawks cornerback who ended Sunday's game by being assessed a penalty for flashing the choke sign to the beaten San Francisco 49ers. He then stunned the public with a nationally televised taunting rant for which he has since apologized.
It's about Knowshon Moreno versus Marshawn Lynch.
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