Mike Valenti

I mean, you would think that all of us would totally understand that he would be rooting for an ex-teammate, an ex-team that he played for, and got a lot of memories from there.

Why he's acting this way is beyond me.

I have no idea why.

Well, I would tell you it's missing something called Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes or Matthew Stafford.

It's really about the quarterbacks.

Quarterbacks, in this case, one is young, two years in, and Drake Mayne.

The other one is kind of a rebound guy who everybody, I think, in America would be rooting for simply because of his story and the way that he's handled himself this week out there in Santa Clara.

So there's really no buzz.

There's no major buzz there.

Because I don't necessarily know that these are the teams that anybody expected to be in the Super Bowl.

So without Tom Brady being the quarterback, it loses a lot of juice from the Patriots side.

And because it's the Seahawks and Sam Darnold, I don't think there's a lot of excitement around that.

Unless, of course, you're a fan of one of these two teams.

But it just shows that the ticket prices are where they are.

The secondary market has not exploded by any stretch of the imagination.

So, yeah, there's a little less juice associated with this Super Bowl, but nonetheless, we'll all be watching on Sunday, that's for sure.

Well, and it also goes to show you that the average fan can't afford that.

And maybe that's part of the reason why this Super Bowl just doesn't feel like it has that juice.

Most of this is corporate.

It's all corporate support around the NFL, their sponsors, their TV partners.