Picking Up Pieces From Super Sunday

Twenty-nine years ago, as a 6-year-old boy learning about football, I asked my father who the best team was. He confidently answered, “The Green Bay Packers are the best team, son.” Of course, I believed him. I waited year after year, like a child waiting for Santa Claus to appear at Christmas, for the Packers to return to the Super Bowl. Now, nearly three decades later, my father can once again say to me, “Yes, son, the Green Bay Packers really are the best team.”

MITCH MAKI

Rosemead

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Once again, football fans must swallow another heaping dose of religion from the more superstitious members of the victorious Super Bowl team. I realize that sports ministries do an excellent job of conditioning young athletes to trumpet their religious beliefs whenever granted an audience, but I can’t help but think that if the God of Christianity exists, he would surely direct his influence toward matters of far greater importance than who wins the Lombardi Trophy.

BRIAN BOBO

Los Angeles

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It would seem more reasonable to expect that God’s support, if he were interested, would be evenly distributed rather than showing favoritism.

JERRY EARLE

Los Angeles

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I hope the shameful display by the winners of the Super Bowl will end the media love fest with the Packers. I don’t recall a University of Miami team acting that badly. It was a disgrace.

I am not going to blather on about sportsmanship and proper deportment. I hereby notify any corporation hiring Desmond Howard that I will boycott any and all of its products.

LEE RUDESEAL

Palm Desert

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Paul Tagliabue and Rupert Murdoch would like pro football to return to L.A. by 1999. Where would this team play? Anyone with any football business sense would never again deal with the Coliseum Commission. The Rose Bowl is a good venue but lacks a modern scoreboard. A new state-of-the-art stadium? As long as L.A. keeps producing greedy, dishonest and un-sports-minded bankers, land barons, lawyers and politicians, L.A. will not see pro football here again.

DENNIS VAUGHAN

West Covina

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Shame on Fox sports for playing the film score to “Jurassic Park” to kick off John Madden’s eloquent pregame locker-room talk amid such greats as Joe Namath, Larry Csonka and Roger Staubach. These pros may be the real giants of sports history but, gee whiz, they’re not dinosaurs.

R. SCOTT PENZA

Hollywood