My disinterest in Sunday’s Super Bowl is akin to my disinterest in anything related to zombies.

I have tried to watch The Walking Dead and find it absolutely bland and unoriginal. It uses the same formula as zombie movies and shows before it in that you know the secret is to kill the zombie before one kills you.

My only intent now is to keep up the rrspin tradition of picking a Super Bowl winner — I stand 1-1 thus far —in a Walking Dead game that hardly arouses my passion for the overall game of football.

The things I find fault with this year’s version of the NFL championship are as follows:

• I’ll be the only one with the guts to say this — I despise Ray Lewis. I think Ray Lewis is a phony in the ilk of television evangelists and snake oil salesmen back in the day. I think his crocodile tears and prayers are show and I believe he carries with him knowledge of a murder that was committed and refuses to come clean. We won’t even start with the Sports Illustrated story that surfaced alleging use of performance enhancing drugs or why it’s OK for him to proselytize and it’s not OK for Tim Tebow to do so in a more humbling way.

While everyone else is pandering to him, I refuse to do so.

• The second thing is the San Francisco 49ers as a whole. I don’t like them. Their greatness in the late 80s and 90s overshadowed the successes of my team and any local person without ties to San Francisco only likes them because of their greatness.

• Finally, the Harbaugh brothers bowl angle may be the most zombie-like factor of the whole affair. I don’t care that brothers are coaching the teams and would rather see the hated Cowboys play anyone in the AFC for a chance to win the NFL title.

This brings me to my pick for the winner of the Lombardi Trophy.

The name history pick would give the edge to the 49ers simply because they’ve been around longer. Fancying myself a writer, the Ravens name is appropriate since it is a nod to Edgar Allen Poe’s famous poem but it brings us back full circle to zombies.

Vegas has the 49ers as 3 ½ point favorites but who’s to say a bunch of overzealous San Francisco fans aren’t stacking the odds.

My only way to pick this year’s game is to go on the zombie premise and that is to determine that the team with the least amount of the walking dead wins.

So let’s look at it:

Zombie factor 49ers: No one to speak of. There’s no one I think I would have to shoot to keep from having my brains eaten, except for maybe Randy Moss and Randy isn’t the same contentious Randy he was several years ago. The 49ers pulled their only zombie; quarterback Alex Smith, so San Francisco is pretty much a zombie-free zone.

Zombie factor Ravens: Did I mention I don’t like Ray Lewis? Joe Flacco can be a zombie sometime and Ray Rice is a beast, but not in the sense of a zombie beast. With those factors Baltimore has a three-zombie deficit, if you count in my world the team name gets us back to zombies.

That gives the Ravens a 3-0 zombie factor so I suppose I’ll have to pick the 49ers in the Zombie Bowl, winning it 38-25, and I’ll just look forward to the commercials — Lance Martin

Lance Martin is editor and publisher of rrspin.com