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Picking a winner in the Super Bowl is never easy. Sometimes there are heavy favorites and sometimes there dead even match ups, but with two weeks for media to completely disect what will happen on Super Bowl Sunday the outcome never seems clear cut.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are a seven point favorite as of right now to beat the Arizona Cardinals. Will the spread change before kick off? Probably, but not by much. One of the deciding factors in a spread change could be the health of two premiere wide receivers in Anquan Boldin of the Cardinals and Hines Ward for the Steelers.
Although Hines Ward isn't the caliber of receiver that Larry Fitzgerald and Anquan Boldin are he can still be a game changer. In fact, if it weren't for Ward's touchdown in the Steelers Super Bowl win a few years ago the Seahawks may have gotten the best of Pittsburgh.
At any given moment Anquan Boldin can change a game, he is still as strong they come at the position and can go deep anytime during the football game like he did against the Carolina Panthers for 71 yards and a touchdown. Larry Fitzgerald on the other hand will be key for the Cardinals.
When you think of all-time greats at wide receiver only few names come to mind like Randy Moss, Steve Largent and at the top of the list Jerry Rice. Even in today's game there are receivers that when it is all said and done could be considered some of the best of all-time like the Cowboys Terrell Owens, Houston's Andre Johnson and Steve Smith from Carolina, but only one can say he is the all-time leading wide receiver for receiving yards in a post season and that is Larry Fitzgerald.
Not even playing in the Super Bowl yet Larry Fitzgerald has already passed the all-time receiving yards mark with 419 yards in just three games passing Jerry Rice's previous record. Now that is saying something!
The Steelers may have the most dominant defense in the league, but the Cardinals definitely have the offensive weapons to compete. With Kurt Warner playing at his level maybe ever and Larry Fitzgerald virtually rewriting the history books with every game he plays, Arizona has a fighting chance going into Super Bowl XLIII.

