I've been reading this site for a number of years with only a few posts, this being the most significant. In the pre-game show when they did the short profile on Russell and his father, I was on the couch with my wife, in-laws and some other diehard 12's. When that interview started the emotions caught up to me. The last two weeks I had been unusually calm, not nervous or really anxious at all. I told two 49'r fans I work with that if the 9'rs had won the NFCCG that I honestly believe they would beat Denver, easily. But, I was reserved about putting that pressure and expectations on us in fear of jinxing this team. But I knew if we played our game, we would be right there, contending with "The greatest offense that any human being or knowledgable football mind has ever seen". When that interview started I could not hold back the tears. They just came. I said to my wife ( as much as I could talk without really breaking down) that "I think it's all caught up to me". She said "What has"? All i could say was "This, All of this"! And the game hadn't even started yet. Go Hawks!