Barbara Boxer: “I say to my friend, this Sunday's Super Bowl will add a final chapter to what has turned out to be a magnificent…”

“I say to my friend, this Sunday's Super Bowl will add a final chapter to what has turned out to be a magnificent story--the tale of two teams taking a strikingly different course to arrive at the same destination. The young, upstart San Diego Chargers are the quintessential underdogs. After battling to finish with an eight and eight record last year, most NFL pundits rated them way down in the polls. some of us can relate to that. However, the Chargers stormed out of the gates and finished first in their division. San Diego marched through the playoffs by beating Miami and going back to the snow and ice of Pittsburgh to defeat the Steelers and earn their first Super Bowl berth. Then, as my colleague knows, there are the 49'ers.”