Cards or Steelers? Celebs make Super Bowl predictions

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Jan. 30, 2009

Editor's note: Last week at the 50th Bob Hope Classic hosted by Arnold Palmer, PGA TOUR Media Official Joe Chemycz polled several celebrities -- including four well-known football players -- to get their Super Bowl picks.

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	ALICE COOPER		Cardinals 35, Steelers 28 "I think the Cardinals will score 21 points before the Steelers know what hit them. They do it every game and then take the third quarter off and they come back late in the fourth. I'm a Detroit Lions fan, but my team is struggling a bit lately. I think the Cardinals are just too quick for the Steelers. Fitzgerald especially. That Polamalu is amazing but there's only one of him. Warner does a nice job of putting the ball where he wants to."
	DAN FOUTS		Cardinals 28, Steelers 10 "I have to go with Kurt Warner. There's no way I can root for a defensive team -- everyone knows that! Larry Fitzgerald is such a talented player."
	BO JACKSON		Cardinals "I'm going with the Cardinals because my wife wants the Steelers. I always go with the other team just so I can WIN our $5 bet every time. I keep wanting to increase to maybe $20, but she keeps it at just five."
	JASON SEHORN		Steelers 24, Cardinals 17 "Nobody has proven they score on the Steelers. I know Arizona's got a great offense, and Kurt Warner and Larry Fitzgerald are fantastic, but the old saying goes "offense wins games, defense wins championships." I think that at the end of the day, as well as Arizona has played, they just haven't played against that kind of a defense. The best team the NFC had was New York, and they faltered at home. I don't think this game is going to be about the offenses; I think it's going to be about the defenses. Pittsburgh is adequate on offense. To score the points they scored against Baltimore showed they can put up some points and do some things, and that was without Hines Ward. It's just so hard to think that Arizona is going to put up 28 or even 21 points against that team. Pittsburgh won't pull away from them. They're not going to run the table, so that'll keep it close. Their offense relies on running the ball and throwing deep occasionally. That being said, I think Arizona will have some opportunities to stay in the game with a quick score or a big play. They have the potential for a 70-yard play, and I don't think Pittsburgh does."
	DEREK ANDERSON		Cardinals 21, Steelers 14 "I think Arizona has a lot of momentum going. Larry Fitzgerald has been playing unbelievable. I think Kurt (Warner) is a smart guy, and he'll have all their blitzes down. Pittsburgh's defense are pretty hard to pick up, but when you've got two weeks to prepare for it, I think they'll have a pretty good grasp on it. I think they'll be able to get the ball out and make some big plays out of it. I don't think they'll score a lot of points because that Pittsburgh defense is pretty good. I've played against them twice for the past four years, and like I said, having two weeks to prepare for them is a little bit easier. They come from so many different areas, and they mix and match things. Polamalu is everywhere. He's in the box sometimes, even though he's really a linebacker. He'll line up at safety sometimes because they have all those different athletes, and he becomes a wild card at times. The guys in front of him, like Casey Hampton, allow him to do that, but I still think Arizona is going to get it done."