These things will happen Sunday. Guaranteed.
• I will be wasted. Vegas won't even take odds against that.
• Since I'll be watching at a bar in Chicago, rooting against the Bears, I'll find scant few people to high-five when Peyton Manning throws his third TD pass of the game.
• No athlete, hip-hopper, nor member of their respective entourages will try to bring a gun or knife into a South Beach club after-party. Well, maybe one or two ... hundred.
• A CBS announcer will begin a report by saying he talked to either Lovie Smith or Tony Dungy this week. As did every single person working in sports media.
• On Monday, I'll go into sports depression, as golf and NASCAR make headlines and hockey highlights appear on SportsCenter before the program's final minute. Baseball season, sadly, is still months away.
• The game will be better than last year's. Sure as hell couldn't be worse.
• The Colts will win, 31-17, because they're the better team with the best player, having beaten better competition in the better conference. However, I'm a little spooked by the idea of a former University of Florida quarterback (Rex Grossman) winning the Super Bowl after the Gators notched national championships in college basketball and football. And which school was it that haunted Peyton Manning while at the University of Tennesee? Yep, U of F.
The year of the Gator has me a little concerned also.
Hoping the 2 guys from LSU on the Colts will be enough to make up for their lack of FLA players. I don't think a team can win the Super Bowl without at least one LSU player.
I saw your comment on Brooks about Steeler fans not even going back to watch last year's game. I agree. I have watched the Steelers-Colts playoff game over, but have no interest in last year's Super Bowl.
Posted by art at February 2, 2007 6:53 AM