NFL

DANIEL MATTHEWS AT THE SAN JOSE CONVENTION CENTER: It was early on Monday evening, in a windowless hall in San Jose, in front of a few hundred school children and a baying mass of media, that the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks lit a fuse that will spit and sizzle for the next six days. All the way until Sunday afternoon, when Super Bowl LX catches fire 15 minutes down the road from here. The two teams briefly brushed shoulders on a makeshift stage at one end of the San Jose Convention Center. Now the clock is ticking until they come face-to-face at Levi's Stadium, 40 miles south around the Bay from San Francisco. Only then will all the talking and all the bedlam give way to football....read