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" After months of Sundays spent tailgating, bar-hopping and red zone-ing, football fans get just one more NFL Sunday before O.A.D. (Offseasonal Affective Disorder) sets in. Your team may not be in the Super Bowl (mine sure isn&amp;#039;t), but this game is the last meaningful football until September, so you&amp;#039;d better soak up every last minute of it. To help you get on board with Super Bowl XLVIII, I&amp;#039;ve come up with 25 reasons to look forward to this Broncos-Seahawks matchup... 1. The league&amp;#039;s No. 1 offense versus the league&amp;#039;s No. 1 defense. &amp;#039;Nuff said. 2. Two legal marijuana states? Endless weed jokes, man. 3. Like ... this one: Hooray, munchies! These two fan bases are guaranteed to have some seriously loaded Super Bowl buffets! Doritos and seven-layer dip, anyone? 4. Or ... this one: The possibility of the best mayoral bet ever. Forget the fresh fish-for-Denver Pale Ale exchange, how about space cakes for pot brownies! 5. Aw hell, let&amp;#039;s just get all of &amp;#039;em outta the way now: The NFL presents ... The Super BOWL, sponsored by BUD, featuring the Mile HIGH City&amp;#039;s own Denver Broncos and Seattle&amp;#039;s HIGH-flying Seahawks. Kickoff just after 4:20 p.m. CT on Feb. 2! 6. Cold Manning Face. Careful, Peyton, your face might freeze that way. 7. Richard Sherman&amp;#039;s yapper. Reporters are no doubt salivating just thinking about the Seattle cornerback&amp;#039;s media day sound bites. 8. Seahawks fan (and &amp;quot;Talk Soup&amp;quot;/&amp;quot;Community&amp;quot; star) Joel McHale. Dreamy. Sporty. Very tall. More coverage of him cheering, tweeting and just plain breathing, please. 9. History: Peyton Manning could be the first quarterback ever to start and win a Super Bowl for two different teams. 10. Two words: Beast Mode. 11. &amp;quot;Omaha!&amp;quot; More Peyton references to the Gateway to the West means more opportunities to hear &amp;quot;Omaha&amp;quot; during teases and bumps. Love me some Counting Crows. 12. Seattle coach Pete Carroll is bound to be full of Super week surprises. A Will Ferrell pregame speech? A media day prank on one of his best receivers? Carroll is always up to something ... 13. &amp;quot;Geriatric&amp;quot; success. Nothin&amp;#039; like watching a guy just a few years short of 40 slinging around the ol&amp;#039; pigskin, throwing over, under and around 22-year-olds. An inspiration to the 35-and-up crowd! 14. Justin Timberlake. Broncos fan Jessica Biel is likely to bring her hot hubby to Super week and the big game. Maybe JT will even show up to do a duet at Jay-Z&amp;#039;s DirecTV show Saturday night? 15. The &amp;quot;Legion of Boom.&amp;quot; The Seattle secondary talks the talk and walks the walk -- expect big plays and big smack. 16. History: This Seahawks team could win the franchise its first-ever Super Bowl title. 17. Denver superfans Trey Parker and Matt Stone bringing their hilarity to radio row to talk Broncos, &amp;quot;South Park&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Book of Mormon.&amp;quot; 18. More shots of Marshawn Pinch, the Seahawks&amp;#039; helmet-inhabiting hermit crab at the Seattle Aquarium. 19. The legend versus the next generation: A chance to watch the two winningest quarterbacks in the NFL over the past two seasons face off. 20. The chance to see 12-time Pro Bowler Champ Bailey live up to his name in his first-ever Super Bowl. 21. Two years ago, Eli Manning won a Super Bowl at Peyton&amp;#039;s (then) home field in Indianapolis; this year Peyton has a chance to win it all at Eli&amp;#039;s home stadium in New Jersey. 22. A possible happy homecoming for Pete Carroll. After one failed season as head coach of the Jets back in 1994, Carroll has a chance to think of New Jersey as a happy place if he leads the Seahawks to a win there. 23. The chance to play a supersized Super Bowl edition of Count-the-Manning ads during commercial breaks. 24. History: Pete Carroll could become the first head coach to win a BCS title and a Super Bowl title. (That is, if you count BCS wins that have since been vacated.) 25. Free Skittles for everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Oh, just Marshawn? Daaaaang.)     Related Stories:   20 Football Fanatic Mantras For Every Girl   How Denver Broncos Fans Tailgate   What Makes Seattle Seahawks Fans the Loudest of the NFL      This post originally appeared on ESPN W.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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