This is Super Bowl Sunday, and some of you, I know, have chosen to ignore that. In some years you can do that, but when it is held in San Diego, just a few hundred yards down the street, it is hard to ignore it.

In 1995, the Super Bowl was in Miami. We couldn't ignore that one either, because the Chargers were playing the 49ers in Miami. On Super Bowl Sunday in 1995, we gathered here in church, offered up prayers for the Chargers. That night we gathered for a memorial service.

Today the Broncos and the Packers are playing. Because the game is played here in San Diego, we can't ignore it. But we can be objective about it, get some distance, and have a "Pre-Game Analysis." That's what I want to do this morning.

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