Fifteen years and still going strong – Only A Game’s Super Bowl Haiku make a triumphant return with some notable hut-hut-Haiku players.

This week on Only a Game, our fifteenth offering of Super Bowl Haiku poetry. Also, how Super Bowl TV ads went from superstars to underachievers, and two music critics help us decide the winner in a battle of the Super Bowl fight songs.

With the Super Bowl just days away Bill blogs about the Eastern Service Workers Association’s Winter Survival Campaign and it’s Super Bowl Sunday Tamale Benefit.

On the eve of the Super Bowl, two new cases of chronic traumatic encephalopathy – the brain damage associated with multiple concussions – have been in the news. Commentator Bill Littlefield remembers – sort of – one of his worst days as an intramural athlete – and wonders why it’s taking so long for physicians associated with teams to acknowledge the obvious.

This week on Only A Game, the sound of Arizona pinching itself as the Cardinals prepare for Super Bowl XLIII. Also, Trinity College squash tries to extend its title run to an astonishing eleven straight, and Sports Illustrated’s L. Jon Wertheim on the rise of Mixed Martial Arts.

Bill Littlefied visited with the Trinity College squash team – a team that hasn’t lost since 1997. Bill brought his camera to share some of the scenes from the Bantams match against Yale.

The popularity of Mixed Martial Arts has seen dramatic expansion in the last decade. Sports Illustrated contributor, L. Jon Wertheim examines the sports growth and how it has come to be as big at is it is with events ranging from Pay-Per-View bouts to a reality television show in his book, “Blood in the Cage.” Bill Littlefied reviews “Blood in the Cage.”

With the Super Bowl just 11 days away, commentator Bill Littlefield offers a few humble suggestions for improving the event.

This week on Only A Game, we’ll preview the pre-Super Bowl games involving, among others, the Arizona Cardinals. Strange days, eh? We’ll explore the grim fates of some former NFL greats, and we’ll visit a college where women wrestle. Officially.

Katie Burt is 11 years old, but it’s her job to stop the shots of ice hockey players who are in high school.  She’s the starting goalie for the Lynn English Lady Bulldogs of Lynn, Massachusetts.  Bill Littlefield and Only A Game producer Doug Tribou visited with the team and snapped some photos.