Does Super Bowl Need Some Changes?

We’re so conditioned to seeing lousy Super Bowl games that we feel blessed when a team loses by only 10 points and is still in the game at halftime. The reality is, the Steelers fought an uphill battle all the way and earned more points for grit than actual performance.

I only hope that when the euphoria of Super Bowl XXX wears off, the NFL will come to its senses and restructure the playoff format. When down to four teams, the NFC’s No. 1 team should play the AFC’s No. 2 and the AFC’s No. 1 should play the NFC’s No. 2, with the winners meeting in the Super Bowl.

Twelve years of NFC supremacy and the NFL still doesn’t get it. Next year will be the same. Dallas, San Francisco and now Green Bay will battle to see who plays the fourth-best team in pro football.

RON OVADIA

Marina del Rey

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The entertainment stunk, the announcers stunk, the officiating stunk, the game stunk. Let’s see, did I leave anything out?

TOM NOVIKOFF

Santa Fe Springs

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Was it just my imagination or did Neil O’Donnell finally erase the memory of the Chicago Black Sox from the annals of sports infamy? Say it ain’t so, Neil.

JOHN R. GRUSH

Irvine

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What is Bill Plaschke’s problem with Barry Switzer? The coach wins a Super Bowl and spends the evening with his family, while Troy Aikman and Jerry Jones host big parties, and Plaschke jumps all over Switzer’s lifestyle. Texas and Oklahoma are used to the sounds of Calvinists barking at Cavaliers, but what’s a Roundhead doing at the L.A. Times?

ARGUS HAMILTON

West Hollywood

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Barry Switzer has been a head football coach in college and pro ranks for a combined 18 years. During that time, he has won three national championships and a Super Bowl. In other words, 22% of his teams have won it all. Do you think he might be doing something right?

J.W. JONES

Manhattan Beach

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I love Mike Downey’s column and share his disdain for Barry Switzer. But any man who can get his ex-wife and girlfriend to sleep in the same room with him has, shall we say, good people skills.

MATTHEW A. BERNSTEIN

Los Angeles