Root for the Steelers: It’s good for business.

Politics, Business and Sports Desk. Here in Palo Alto we are watching this game carefully. See The Motley Fool. First, a Pittsburgh win will help stock markets, maybe. Second, Obama’s pick–whether they win or not–will help him 2012. (His campaign gleefully trashed western and central Pennsylvania.) Finally, I lived in Pittsburgh last summer, and people there need cheering up. Not a place where people bounce eagerly out of bed to greet the new day. Root for the ‘Burgh. Don’t forget to take your shirt off.