Think the weather in Detroit on Super Bowl Sunday is an issue? (It is, since it started snowing yesterday and there are flurries and temperature plunges today threatening to wreak havoc on fans getting to the game.) It's a much bigger problem in Seattle, where heavy rain and high winds from Saturday have knocked out power. As of now, much of it hasn't been restored yet. Which means that a substantial portion of the city won't be able to see their team play in the first Super Bowl in the 30-year history of the franchise, trying to get the first championship in 27 years. If it were any other city than mellow Seattle, we might be witnessing the first-ever PRE-championship-game riot.

It's good that the game is finally here, though. After all the talk of how stupefyingly boring both teams are, and of how the Joey Porter-Jerramy Stevens feud was too manufactured, we've finally got football to talk about. For all we know, despite the fact that everyone ran out of story lines early - wait a minute ... have you heard that Jerome Bettis is from Detroit, and they're playing the game there? - this could be an all-time classic, and we'll all forget about the two weeks of so-called pre-game hype.

Meanwhile, it went completely over my head that Warren Moon was about to become the first black quarterback in the Hall of Fame. Amazing. Considering that he was the prototypical black quarterback of the 1970s - great in college, but completely overlooked by the NFL and forced to play in Canada - this sort of came out of the blue, overshadowed in the anticipation by Troy Aikman, Reggie White, John Madden and Michael Irvin (who didn't make it). Is that good or bad? Even Moon saw that it was a little of both; he acknowledged that it should not be an issue now, but that in the context of history, it was huge. Nevertheless, it didn't sink in with me until his name was announced yesterday - "Hey, he's the first black quarterback to make it, isn't he?''.

Ray Lewis is still lighting it up on NFL Network, on the field with Rich Eisen, Terrell Davis and Steve Mariucci. You'd be stunned to hear that he loves what Joey Porter said and agrees with him 100 percent.