The game is Colts vs. Bears (as I predicted). I don’t know if its because I lived in New England for a couple of years and got sick of hearing about how "wicked awesome" the Patriots and Sox are, but I got pleasure out of watching pretty boy Tom Brady fall. Don’t feel too badly for him, he’s going home to be consoled by supermodel Gisele.
I will be rooting for and pick the Bears to win. Go NFC!
(As far as my beloved Redskins go: 2007, this is the year — no, really. Really.)
I went 0 for 2.
OW, I bow, respectfully, to your superior prognostication.
Having never invested in either the Bears or Colts, I have no favorite in the Super Bowl.
the chicago d plays inspired. but the colts start manning up and convert 3rd downs left and right. the colts hit cruise control and the hacks in the booth talk about Grossman’s “poise.” I look up the word “poise.” Devin Hester makes a big play on Miami’s agreeable surface. Superbowl historians will refer to this as “the boom.” The Bears carry their momentum into the second half. Cedric Benson takes over. A steady balanced attack puts the Colts down by two scores with 10 minutes left. Manning is picking apart the soft zone D. The drive stalls at the two minute warning. Manning gets greedy. Interception Nathan Vasher. Clock runs out and the New Monsters finally get some guldarn respect.
Since it’s on the East coast this year I might manage to watch the whole first half before I fall asleep, assuming I don’t get bored of the constant breaks in play for adverts.
Even if you don’t like Brady–something I don’t understand, since what’s the problem with overachievers?–how do you pull for the Colts? Forget for a moment that Irsay took them out of Baltimore, and that they play on turf with blue end zones as weird as Boise State’s. For me, it’s enough that they have Manning as a QB.
I don’t dislike Manning as much as I did Elway, but the similarities are there–pampered son of a football insider, who has sold himself to anybody with enough cash. And until yesterday, I could say the same thing about him that I used to say about Elway–not ready for prime time.
Of course, he is going to crush the Bears. Looks like another Super Bowl. Wake me when it’s over.
Redskins suck. I say it as I am a Pokes fan.
“Forget for a moment that Irsay took them out of Baltimore.”
I’ve lived in Baltimore for 13 years and not one MD native has forgotten nor have they stopped their bitching.
The way I see it, ever since Baltimore bribed Art Modell to move the Browns here (to the tune of 300+ million tax dollars) anyone who still bitches about the Colts can now just STFU, all bets are off.
Actually, it’s just Ballmer folks bitching about it. Those of us in the lower part of the state could give a crap about the Colts/Ravens in lieu of our beloved Redskins.
Dudes,
You are failing to account for one inportant player in analyzing the Super Bowl. If you had listened to the post-game interviews with the Colts’ Irsay and Coach Dungy, you would understand that it was the Lord (that’s God for you heathens) that got the Colts the win over the Patriots.
Maybe the Bears would win if we were playing 11-on-11, but the Colts’ have an awesome 12th man. The Colts are the Lord’s team and you know where that leaves the Bears.
You certainly are entitled to dislike Manning, but disliking him because he was fathered by a pro quarterback seems petty. First, it’s something completely beyond his control. Second, I reject the notion that anyone, from a sixth rounder like Brady to a #1 pick with a famous name like Manning, is handed anything in the NFL. It’s not as if Archie Manning is some legendary, Unitas/Staubach/Montana-type figure. I’m a pretty big football fan with a decent handle on the history of the game who was about 10 years old when Archie Manning played his last game, but I had only a vague notion of who Archie Manning was before Peyton started getting publicity. Hell, Bob Griese is a bigger name than Archie Manning, and lineage hasn’t guaranteed his sons anything. If anything, the pedigree has put a great deal of pressure on Peyton, but being Archie Manning’s son hasn’t guaranteed a thing.
As a man born and raised on the South Side of the Chi, it gave me GREAT pleasure to watch my Bears serve all the media “experts” a big helping of crow!