A tough Super Bowl for this Dallas fan

True-blue Dallas Cowboys fans like me are dreading Super Bowl Sunday. Of all the teams, Green Bay and Pittsburgh are in our $1.2 billion house.

How rude!

Shades of Bart Starr and Lynn Swann all over again. I’ve seen those awful reruns plenty enough. And now this.

To think a Packers fan is going to be sitting in my seat in Section 418, Row 20. And to think the Green Bay players have been staying in my hotel, the one my son Mitchell affectionately nicknamed “The Duck Hotel” at age 3 because of the Egyptian black swans that used to call the Omni Mandalay home.

Cowboys legendary coach Tom Landry already has been rolling in his grave after the fiasco seasons his University of Texas and Dallas alma maters endured this year. The Packers and Steelers together in Cowboys Stadium at the same time only added to that spin cycle.

So who to root for?

Considering Pittsburgh has a hometown Ball High favorite, not to mention a UT ex, in Casey Hampton, the logical choice would be cheer for the Steelers.

But do I really want to see Pittsburgh win a seventh Super Bowl, making them two better than the ’Boys?

On the other hand, do I really want to see Green Bay, the throwback franchise that kept the Cowboys from most likely claiming the first two unofficial Super Bowls, win?

Which is the worse of two evils?

Sorry, Casey, but I have to pull for the Packers this time around. Even if they win, that would give them only four NFC-AFC championship rings. They’ll also do it without that go-ahead-pat-me-on-the-back-I’m-the-greatest Brett Favre, which is gratifying enough.

Plus it will make the tallest Packers fan in Galveston — Larnell Mitchell — one happy camper, not to mention making my dentist David Colombo a bit more giddier than usual, too.

And, oh, yeah, don’t forget the Packers did help the Cowboys finally get rid of Wade Phillips. (Have fun with that one, Houston Texans fans.)

Then there’s the shameful fact Casey grew up hating the Cowboys altogether. What’s with that?

So, go Green Bay!

Just call me a bonehead cheesehead.

Manuel Moreno Jr. is a sports correspondent and tennis columnist for The Daily News. His e-mail address is mmjtenicon(at)aol.com.