It's little surprise who he's pulling for

Greg Larson was motoring along a Florida freeway Wednesday afternoon when he returned a phone call regarding his thoughts on the Super Bowl between the New York Giants and Baltimore Ravens.
"The Giants by 10 or 12, and bet your house," Larson said via his cell phone.
What would you expect a former New York Giant to say? Take the Ravens and bet the house?
The Brainerd sporting goods businessman played center for the Giants from 1961-73. In his first three seasons he played in three NFL championship games, none of which the Giants won. He expects this year's Giants to beat the Ravens although he's anticipating a defensive struggle.
"The Giants have a great defense," Larson said. "They play with a lot of intensity. Both defensive teams are really intense. That's going to make it tough on the offenses."
Larson said the Giants' 41-0 shellacking of the Vikings in this year's NFC title game wasn't a surprise.
"I don't think the Vikings had faced a defensive team of that caliber," he said. "The Giants just throttled them. I've never seen two weeks in a row where a guy (Michael Strahan) just picks up All-Pro offensive tackles and dumps them on their backs."
Head coaches Jim Fassel of the Giants and Brian Billick of the Ravens impress Larson.
"You've got two great coaches coaching this game," Larson said. "The Giants seem to change their game plan for who they're playing. They knew the Vikings had no secondary and no defense. The Giants hadn't (passed much) all year. They changed their whole philosophy.
"Like the Ravens they're versatile on defense too. We may not have seen everything in their defensive scheme. I think it will be a real defensive battle.
"I think you've got two defensive teams that can dominate a game, then punting and field goal kicking will be the key to the game."
In their three NFL championship appearances, Larson and the Giants lost 37-0 to the Green Bay Packers in 1961, 16-7 to the Packers in 1962 and 14-10 to the Chicago Bears in 1963. He said the atmosphere surrounding those games resembled the Super Bowls of today.
"The fans went absolutely nuts in New York," Larson said. "It was a special town to be in. People came out of the woodwork. People were really intense. You've got to understand that Giants fans go back a long time. That was their team. At that time the Giants encompassed the whole eastern area. They just loved us along the whole East Coast."
Larson said head coach Allie Sherman brought in key players his first year in New York, like quarterback Y.A. Tittle and receivers Joe Walton and Del Shofner. They joined established stars like running backs Alex Webster and Phil King, running back-receiver Frank Gifford, defensive linemen Rosie Grier and Andy Robustelli and linebacker Sam Huff.
Sherman conducted brief practices, often with no helmets or pads. But, in his fourth season, Larson said Sherman began to change.
"Allie felt he was responsible for the success of the team," Larson said. "He traded away Rosie Grier. He got rid of Sam Huff. He started to get rid of some people that were pretty important in the organization. Then Gifford and Robustelli retired.
"If I remember right the next year we played the Jets is where Allie lost everything. We couldn't do anything right. He worked the ... out of us from then on. That was when (Vince) Lombardi was having success (at Green Bay). We never did grass drills in Allie's first three years but he had seen something on Lombardi doing them so all we did in '64 was grass drills. In '65 it got worse."
The Giants missed the playoffs in each of Larson's final 10 seasons with 9-5 their best record in that span.
From 1958-60, Larson played at the University of Minnesota. In his senior year he was captain of the Gophers' national championship team, an All-Big Ten selection and played in the College All-Star Game and in the Senior and Rose bowls.
This fall the national championship team was recognized at a Gophers game. Larson said his wife, Joey, chides him for sometimes ignoring his football career.
"It doesn't mean that much to me," he said. "I always live for the moment, not the past so much. I've done that all my life.
"It is great to know that you have done those things. As you get older those friends that you had do become more meaningful. We have started to lose some along the way. Then you think, 'Why didn't I make that call or talk to them?' We were just talking about that the other night, about doing a lot more things."