Well the wicked witch is supposedly dead and now the new heroes live on to win their first Super Bowl. Cheese mania is running all over our fair country, and Cowboy hate has become as intense as ever.

Currently, I am not a fan of either team, but I have to admit I am already more sick and tired of the Packers than I ever was of the Cowboys.

Why? If you have to ask that question you obviously did not watch the Super Bowl. The Packers were glorifying themselves all over the place, and due to Rison’s reaction after the first touchdown, I could have sworn the game was over five minutes into it.

Sure, the Packers certainly did have their share of class acts like Reggie White and almost the entire Green Bay defense, but they also had Desmond Howard.

Howard and several other Packers acted as if scoring a touchdown in the Super Bowl was so great, they had to shove it in their opponents’ faces. What really bothered me about most of these characters was that they weren’t even that good.

Certainly the names Rison and Howard don’t stack up to players like Brett Favre or Reggie White, but due to their showboating, one could have been fooled to believe they were the best on their team.

Howard was easily the worst showboater on the field, and the reporters thought so also because they gave him the MVP. The most sickening play of the game was when Howard, eager to score a touchdown slows around the one-yard line and starts doing a dance.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not like Kieth Olbermann who believes real men don’t taunt, and I’m not that opposed to a little celebration after a touchdown. Almost all the Packers, after their many years in the league deserved a Super Bowl.

What baffles me is the fact that this is what we have been vilifying the Cowboys for all along. Suddenly, everyone hates the Cowboys and the main reason is their brash smugness. Excuse me for saying so, but after that Super Bowl, no one is as brash as the Packers.

This smugness soon built to a feeling of invincibility and the Cowboys’ acts caught up with them.

The police could not look the other way for that long, and so they caught several key Cowboys in illegal acts.

Are the Packers headed this way? Is that what I’m trying to say? In a word, yes.

I and several other non-Packer fans were so disgusted by the Packers during the Super Bowl that we had to question the differences between the Cowboys and Packers currently.

Perhaps the one thing that chapped my hide the most was before the Super Bowl when a reporter asked Robert Brooks if he was disappointed that he could not play in the Super Bowl. Brooks responded that he knew the Packers would just be back there next year.

Personally, I hope to see anyone other than the Packers back there next year. I am so adamant about this that it is rumored I will switch my favorite team to the Cowboys. Bandwagon? No, I have terrible timing and no love for cheese.

Cade Remsburg is a senior in journalism and mass communication from Ames.