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Super Bowl Tickets - Ben Roethlisberger vs. Kurt Warner

The Super Bowl is perhaps the most over-analyzed sports event of the year, and there is no lack for subjects to dissect to the point of mutilation. Undoubtedly the sports media will focus much of their attention on the two starting quarterbacks of the Arizona Cardinals and the Pittsburgh Steelers, Kurt Warner and Ben Roethlisberger, respectively. Quarterbacks are often the most visible players on the field, and they oftentimes contribute the most dramatically to a team's success or failure, especially in the Super Bowl, were a disproportionate amount of Super Bowl MVPs are quarterbacks. Peyton Manning and Eli Manning won the last two Super Bowl MVP awards, so it would come as no surprise if either Warner or Roethlisberger were determined to be the most important player on the field when the Super Bowl is finally over. But who has the edge, Warner or Roethlisberger? If you had to make a guess as to who is better prepared to take their team all the way, who would it be?

In trying to determine the future, it's important to look at the past. Anybody betting on the Super Bowl would like to see some evidence of past success to determine the likelihood that Warner or Roethlisberger will have a good game. In the area of experience, it looks as though Warner has the edge, although both of their football resumes are spectacular. No matter who you think is going to win this position battle, you have to admit that getting some Super Bowl tickets to see Warner and Roethlisberger play live would be an incredible experience.

Kurt Warner's most important experience, as pertaining to the Super Bowl he's about to play, came in 1999, when he guided the St. Louis Rams to a Super Bowl win over the Tennessee Titans. Warner won the Super Bowl MVP that game, completing 24 of 45 passes for 414 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions. He threw the winning touchdown pass, a 73-yarder, to Isaac Bruce that put the Rams up for good, 23-16. That game happened in the 1999-2000 season. Two years later the Rams went to the Super Bowl again, when the played the Tom Brady-led New England Patriots. The Rams ended up losing that game in the final moments on that famous Adam Vinatieri field goal. Warner wasn't on fire, but he sure didn't play like he had in his first Super Bowl experience. He went 28-44 for 365 yards and a touchdown, although he threw two interceptions. Now, Warner is back in the hot seat, leading a new team, the Arizona Cardinals, to the Super Bowl. He's been performing well, throwing accurately and getting things done. Will the 2000 Kurt Warner show up, or will the 2002 Kurt Warner show up?

Ben Roethlisberger hasn't exactly been slacking off either. In his comparatively young career, Big Ben already has a Super Bowl victory. In 2006 Roethlisberger led the Steelers from a Wild Card spot in the AFC playoff bracket to the Super Bowl. Although Ben didn't have a good enough game to earn the MVP award (he was only 9 for 21 for 123 yards, no touchdowns and two interceptions), it's still a good accomplishment that he was part of a Super Bowl championship team. He knows what it's like to get there and win.

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