When it comes to sports, I’m a sentimental fool.

And my eyes were barely dry from watching the Netflix “Miracle” documentary Saturday night when Super Bowl XL kicked off with a patriotic montage of the big game through the years.

It’s been 60 years of great football and national cohesion on that given Sunday.

In it, fans recalled big life moments during the Super Bowl, like a mother giving birth during a game and a veteran hearing Whitney Houston’s iconic national anthem while deployed during Desert Storm. Legendary Jet Joe Namath closed the segment out. Football is indeed “America’s Game.”

On the field, Super Bowl MVPs like Steve Young, Tom Brady, Lynn Swann and the Manning brothers popped out of the “memory room” to cheers. And oddly joined Green Day as they played “American Idiot.”

I must have cried about 15 times before kickoff.

However, all that beautiful nostalgia dissolved into something worse than the stench on the Jersey Turnpike. It was …........

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