Manning legacy in own hands

New York takes all the credit, talking a big game and laying on the hottest Super Bowl bashes.

But all that nonsense will be stripped away when NFL fans make the bleak trek across the cold Hudson River, deep into the unforgivable marshes of the New Jersey Meadowlands where forlorn wildlife and dead mobsters share blissful ignorance.

The Super Bowl is one of those world sporting events where no news would be better news. The preamble is jarringly inane and the kick-off can’t come quick enough.