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The Manning quarterback dynasty: former New Orleans Saints star Archie with sons Eli of the New York Giants and Peyton of the Indianapolis Colts.

30. In the Giants’ owner’s luxury box, a member of the team’s hierarchy will tell the bartender, “I’ll have a brewski,” and as a result the team will be charged by the league with tampering.

31. Several Giants defenders will sack Tom Brady at once. When the officials pull apart the pile, they will discover that Brady is missing. But soon they will locate him wedged in the gap in Michael Strahan’s teeth.

32. The NFL will ask the Air Force if they would mind trailing advertising banners behind their jets during the pre-game flyover.

33. Steve Smith of the Giants will be referred to as a young Wes Welker.

34. The best Super Bowl commercial will be the one with a cute real-life or animated animal. And there is a 50-50 chance it will also feature Peyton Manning.

35. Don Shula will be turned away after he tries to enter the stadium carrying a large sign with an asterisk on it.

36. Tony Romo will be seen walking outside the stadium wearing a sandwich board promoting the Mexican tourism bureau that says, “I went South during the playoffs. Why don’t you?”

37. “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks will sing the national anthem. Fox will then defend itself from charges that it will do just about anything for a ratings bump by saying, “Well, at least we didn’t get somebody from ‘America’s Most Wanted.’

38. Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, two level-headed broadcasters with experience and wisdom who offer reasonable opinions and analysis, will call the game. Fox officials will hold an emergency staff meeting to discuss how something like that could be allowed to happen.

39. The good news is that the massive amount of beer consumption across the nation during the Super Bowl will provide a much-needed boost to our ailing economy. The bad news is that most beer drinkers paid for all that beer by taking out more subprime loans.

40. Jon Corzine, the governor of New Jersey, will offers 100 pounds of fresh Garden State tomatoes in his traditional wager on the Giants with his Massachusetts counterpart. Deval L. Patrick, governor of Massachusetts, will counter by saying, “How about 10 million bucks?”

41. Because Fox will want to recoup some of the losses it incurred because of the writers’ strike by selling extra commercial time, the game will last until Valentine’s Day.

42. The first question out of a network interviewer’s mouth to either Tom Brady or Bill Belichick: “Can you repeat undefeated?”