Fair enough. That Aussie punter Ben Graham is playing in today's Superbowl is reasonably noteworthy in the overall sporting scheme of things, especially given the circuitous way he got there. Even if the Cardinal's offense has The Greatest Day in its travelled history - down Route 66 don't ya know - and Graham only ever gets to hold for the kicker, he will have had a bigger night that Dinara Safina, probably Serena Williams, and certainly the tennis spectators.
But let's not get carried away.
Both Saturday papers in Melbourne had the beater out exaggerating Graham's importance to the Cardinal cause. The Age went with Graham set to shackle speedster, while the Herald Sun went one, and maybe ten orders of magnitude greater with Ben looms as lethal weapon.
It's well known that the Strayan media rarely miss a chance to exaggerate Straya's standing in the world. There is barely an Aussie achievement that is not hailed as "the greatest" or "WBP". On the flip side, there's that patronising tone American sports folk have of saying things like "Really, I didn't know they played football in Australia." This is usually accompanied by mentions of a quirky sense of humour, strange accents and kangaroos.
But surely, somehow, somewhere between Australia's grasping perception of itself as one of the big guys and America's blithe unawareness that there actually are other guys, there's a middle ground where lurk sensible, rational sports folk.
The fact is, if Ben Graham turns out to be Arizona's lethal weapon simply by kicking the ball out of bounds to curtail Santonio Holmes run-backs two things will have happened: one, no one else scored; and two, all the other players went home.
Ain't gonna happen.
What is going to happen is this: Arizona are going to get spanked.
The Cardinals are only in the Superbowl courtesy of Philadelphia's Donovan McNabb's generosity of spirit. Unfairly, but just as unavoidably, the names Andres Escobar and Hanse Cronje bounced around inside my brainbox when McNabb missed 132 open passes (that's a lot of misses when you consider he only attempted 75 passes) in the NFC championship game. Had McNabb not had an absolute shocker, the Eagles would have won comfortably.
Pittsburg will not be so generous. When - not if - the soft Cards secondary give the Pittsburg offence room to move, Big Ben Roethlisberger will pick them apart. Conversely, the Pittsburg defensive line will cover James and Hightower, while their secondary are not going to give Fitzgerald and Boldin anything like the room they got against Philly.
Of course, I could be wrong.