If you find your pulse racing during Super Bowl XLVI on Sunday night, don't count on it resting during the commercial breaks. Looks like the movie trailers airing between touchdowns are all action-packed, metal-scraping, explosive, testosterone-fueled blockbusters. 

Meanwhile, those of us who like movies cast in a soft glow, with sensitive men declaring their undying love to actresses in fab dresses are Out. Of. Luck. This is SO not our moment. Nope, Super Bowl Sunday is night of a thousand acts of aggression, and it doesn't end in the stadium. Check out the upcoming flicks that'll be blasting on big-screen TVs all over America this weekend.

When I was a kid, my father used to get so upset yelling at bad calls and missed balls during the college bowl games that he finally had to stop watching them for fear of giving himself a heart attack. So it is safe to say that I grew up with an unreasonable fear of televised football, because WHO KNOWS? IT MIGHT KILL YOU.

Still, I am a wee bit envious of people who look forward to Super Bowl Sunday. Especially women who know what a touchback is and who not only own but proudly wear their favorite team's jersey. Who are they, and how did they get that way? Why aren't they spending the entire game on their laptops having emotional affairs on Facebook, flinching every time someone scores a touchdown?

I know, you could always just leave the house if you don't like the Super Bowl -- the streets are empty! It's the perfect time to go to Target! Fortunately, there are a lot of good reasons to stick around for the game.

Remember when you were little, and you played games for just fun? A 7-year-old girl kicked off her baseball team because competitive leagues don't allow girls has me longing for those halcyon days.

Anna Kimball's mom says she was told she couldn't play anymore because she's a girl, and as the team becomes "more competitive," they plan to move into a league that doesn't accept female players. But get this! Tami Kimball was also told her son Carson is nowhere as competitive a player as his sister. But because he's a boy, 6-year-old Carson is welcome to keep playing on the team:

Victim 2, the since unidentified 10-year-old boy that Mike McQueary says he saw being raped by Jerry Sandusky in the shower, may have finally come forward. But don't get too excited. Do not expect a damning confession in a prime-time TV interview. Don't expect investigators to finally be able to sort out all the conflicting stories and get any closer to the horrible truth of what really happened that day.

Two new young victims have come forward in the Jerry Sandusky scandal -- and one of them is said to be his own 5 year old grandson! Five! As much as I hate to say it, it's disturbing but not the least surprising. Whose thoughts didn't turn immediately to Jerry Sandusky's own children and grandchildren when we learned he was a family man? It was one of the first OMG thoughts to cross my mind after the scandal first broke. People with this type of perversion do not usually discriminate across bloodlines (not to mention Sandusky's six children are adopted).

That the latest victims are 5 and the other under 18 means this is the first time investigators are aware of abuse by someone who is currently a minor and not an adult, like all the other victims who've come forward. Sandusky and his lawyer are of course denying all these new charges -- and why wouldn't they, since they are denying all the previous ones, too. 

If the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal has taught us anything, it's how deep our capacity for denial runs. We've seen Penn State fans rioting against Sandusky's accusers, and we've wondered how Jerry Sandusky's wife could not have known. Now, a mother of one of the victims has come forward with more details -- and they paint a shocking picture about Central Mountain High School officials, its policies, and its varsity football coach.

No one wanted to believe that Jerry Sandusky was sexually abusing boys -- not just because he's a sports hero who has mentored young athletes, but also because untangling the scandal would be painful and complicated for the whole community. Still, how could so many people live in such deep denial? And what school sports policies allowed the abuse to go on for so long? 

Yesterday, both Scott Paterno and Jay Paterno revealed separately that their father Joe Paterno has a "treatable" form of lung cancer, and Jay reminded us to "keep focus on the victims of this whole tragedy." No doubt the sons of the former Penn State coach, who was recently fired for his blatant neglect in handling the Jerry Sandusky child rape allegations that came to him years ago, are genuinely worried about their father's health and doing what they can to lighten the public burden that has piled up on their 84-year-old dad's shoulders.

"He has a tendency to minimize things," said Jay Paterno in an interview with ESPN about his father's reaction to his cancer diagnosis. Um, you think? That seems to be precisely what he has a tendency to do. Unfortunately, and without playing down his very real health issue, Paterno still must be made an example of for his irreparable choices in 2002.

It's incredibly difficult to look at the Penn State Scandal as anything but a tragic tale of innocence lost and lives shattered. How could any good possibly come of this dark and twisted mess? If you asked me that yesterday, I would have said that nothing good could come from the years of pain Jerry Sandusky caused.

But today I have a different answer.

Over the past couple of weeks, attorneys across the country have been reporting a rise in phone calls from abuse victims; specifically, victims who've kept what happened to them a secret for years, even decades. Victims who are finally allowing themselves to begin to hope in the possibility of their abusers being caught.