It’s finally Super Bowl Sunday, and thank goodness. I’m not terribly original saying this, but hoo-boy, I am tired of the inane “news” coverage for the past two weeks. I don’t find coverage of the celebrities going to the Super Bowl exciting or entertaining. I find it to be a little depressing. It reminds me how different the Super Bowl is than other football games. The other games are about football fans going to a game. The Super Bowl is something else with the fans and even the game being almost incidental.
Stampede Blue continues to have the best Colts coverage around. (And, no, they don’t pay me to sing their praises.) In particular, I got a kick out of this exchange between Big Blue Shoe & Windy City Gridiron.
And, finally, a little fun with Photoshop (not mine, I just thought it was cute):
Stop the run,make Grossman throw to win the game,good kickoff coverage or kick away from Hester,good O-line and we will win.X-factors rain,wind and if Nick Harper can play the Colts best corner.
Sorry Doug and other bloggers…..GO BEARS!!
I’m thinking we’re going to end up seeing Rhodes running it right up the gut. Don’t know why, but that’s just my suspicion.
The Bears had the good taste to get rid of their cheerleaders. I agree with Jim, Go Bears.
I know the Mayors already have a package ready with their bets, but the Governors could bet the following:
Since the Bears and NW Indiana are on CST/CDT, if the Bears win, all of Indiana goes on Central Time. If the Colts win all of Indiana goes on Eastern.
Jim and Paul, you would get some more support with that kind of stakes.
Paul: I agree. Pro teams don’t really have cheerleaders anyway. They really have Pom Pom/Dance squads. They don’t lead cheers and they don’t do any gymnastic stunts, which is required in a cheerleading competition.
WOOOOO!!!
Hey, what do you know. Rhodes ran it up the gut. 113 yards. Addai had 77 yards. So, we took it to the Bears defense with 190 yards on the ground.
I feel sorry for Grossman. He’s going to take a lot of heat this off season.
I’m very happy they won the Super Bowl, but somehow I don’t feel the emotion I felt when they beat the Patriots for the AFC Championship.
well, the Bears aren’t evil like the Patriots are. :)
The Bears are lucky it poured the whole game or the score would have been more lopsided.It didn’t take long for the Colts to stop kicking to Hester did it!Special teams cost the Colts 10 points again but it doesn’t matter now.Even though the Bears ran for over 100 yards 52 of those came on one play and the Colts stopped them.I’m happy for Manning, now like Steve Young said no more yeah buts(can’t win the big one) from the media talking heads.
Great game.
We all knew Hester was going to run one back because he’s an expert at such things and we’re pretty inept at coverage. Better that it happened early than late. Kind of like we got that out of the way so we could then play some real football.
The Bears didn’t get over the hundred-yard rushing mark until a meaningless run in the final minute. What a phenomenal turn-around for our defense. That four-game run for our defense is unprecedented in the history of the league, given its season-long inability to stop the run. We may win more Super Bowls, but I don’t think we’re ever see a more out-of-the-blue, surprising redefining of the team like we saw here.
Peyton was the MVP only because the entire defense was so good–with so many playmakers– that they couldn’t pick just one.
Addai-Rhodes (the position formerly known as “James”) came within a yard of outgaining the Bears entire offense.
Rex had a subpar performance. As did Brady, McNair, and Green. Though he’ll take a lot of hell for his poor play, he has a lot of company. Our defense made opposing quarterbacks look underwhelming the entire postseason. Last night was his turn, that’s all.
Bob Sanders. Enough said. Someone please fix his knee. I want to see this guy play football every week.
It was fitting that we had to win in continuous rain. Each week we faced a situation that was supposedly a sharpened dagger aimed right at our Achilles’ heel. Every week, this team overcame. The Bears looked bad in the rain. Our “soft”, “dome” team looked old school. Bodies flying around and performing legal, good hits without taunting, dancing, or otherwise acting like asses…. actually makes for good football. Let’s see more of that.
Tank Johnson roughed Vinatieri. Shoulda been first and goal. I know the refs bend over backward to not change the momentum of the game. But if the Bears don’t want to face first and goal, they need to refrain from tackling our kicker after the kick is long gone.
Note to NFL: Cover the field. I know it’s got a world-class drainage system. But really, what’s the drawback of putting a tarp on and taking it off right before the game? You’re going to have thousands of people dancing on that field at halftime, so why have it sit uncovered in the rain all week?
Prince wants you to know he can play guitar. Bonus points for playing a Telecaster. Extra bonus points for not masturbating his guitar.
Once again, the ref who was ten feet from Marvin’s catch and called it one REALLY SAW THE CATCH! Then–because somewhere in the NFL bylaws it must be mandated that no good call can go unchallenged– some other asshole had to run up well after the call and be LOUDER, jump up and down emphatically, and profess his “certitude” that no catch took place. Note to asshole ref: The replays clearly show that you didn’t “see” what you’re certain you “saw”. Yes, the guy who was staring at the play from the front REALLY saw it better than you. Note to NFL: Fix this.
At least the same ref didn’t blow Kelvin Hayden’s interception dead.
I listened to Westwood One’s coverage before the game. They referred to Mike Ditka as “America’s Coach” nine times in about fifteen minutes. What was that about?
Vinatieri’s human. And for once, a team’s margin of victory was bigger than his point total–barely.
I couldn’t be more happy that Dungy is our coach. And having listened to all his post-game conferences, I think I earned excused-absences from church for the next year.
I thought Prince’s performance was pretty cool, particularly that part where he was playing “All along the Watchtower” and the rain was falling hard behind him. “All along the Watchtower” should always be played under such conditions.
I also love that we won with a tough running game and a stifling defense. The numbers are what they are, and it’s kind of pointless to start saying if this and if that, but I can’t help myself. Think what the stats and score would look like if you took away that 50 yard run in the 1st quarter and that kick return for a touch down to start the game. (Subtract that 52 yard run, and it becomes 59 yards on 18 rushes; whereas if you subtract our long, it becomes 165 yards on 41 rushes.)