February 02, 2007

• I remember when the Super Bowl was actually a football game between two really good teams. I used to watch it back then. I remember when people didn't get excited about seeing what ways that corporate America had decided to try to manipulate them that year. I remember when people who were football fans watched the game and people who were not did not. I am making myself feel like I am 100.
• I predict the cutest Puppy Bowl ever.
• I predict I'm not going to watch it.
• I predict I have to wait an extra week for the next episode of BSG :-( More importantly, the six nations starts tomorrow: Sat: Italy v. France : France England v. Scotland : Scotland (very uncertain) Sun: Wales v. Ireland : Ireland
• Since everyone else here is either not into U.S. sporting events, or (apparently) too cool to enjoy SuperBowls (yeah, everything was better when I was a kid) I will take it upon myself to actually answer the question. There are three phases to the game: Offense (advantage Colts), Defense (advantage Bears) and Special Teams (advantage Bears). I expect the Bears to throw massive amounts of ground game against the suspect Colts run defense (which also controls the clock and keeps Manning chewing on his towel on the sideline). That also takes the pressure off Grossman and sets up the play action pass. When Manning gets the ball, he will try to catch the wrong personnel on the field with his hurry-up offense. If he can keep the Bears defense on the field they will be losing steam in the 2nd half and they are capable of making up a deficit, as we learned against the Patriots. I'm expecting the Bears to be leading at halftime, 16-6, but the tide will turn in the 2nd half. In a field position game, Field Goals could be very important. But Chicago needs to make TDs (not FGs) if they are going to have enough points at the final gun to win the game. Colts 33 Bears 30 in one of the better SuperBowl games ever played. If I were a betting man, I'd be taking the Bears and the points, but I'm rooting for the Colts.
• I predict I'll be calling the Kwong number for Dinner Combo #2, and then making my way to Pan's Labyrinth, before coming back to see just how bad a blowout it was yet again.
• I predict I'll be napping, having come back from Sunday South Indian. Dammit! No Puppy Bowl for us. Maybe I'll go visit my parents to watch it there.
• GO PACKERS!!!
• Thank you mecurious, for being the only one not too traumatized by being beat up by jocks in highschool to actually have an appreciation of sports. My heart is with Dungy and the Colts. My money will stay in my pocket 'cause this will be a tough one to call.
• OK...I have to admit I hope the Colts win.. only because Dungy and I went to the same high school, and his Dad was my Biology teacher in College (great guy..wonderful family...his Mom was also a teacher).
• I'm with the Dungy crowd just because he IS such a great guy and deserves it completely. Beyond that I predict I will eat much and drink more. I have such good memories of Superbowl weekend. I was raised with it being a tradition to be excessive on that day, cuss a lot, and argue with each other about each and every play on the field. My grandmother was a huge football fan and instilled in me the time-honored traditions. God bless her.
• I just hope I see the Kings beat the Nuggets tonight (I'll be at midcourt 10 rows up...and drunk as a skunk)
• What mercurious said vis a vis the actual game. But here's the thing - will the winnng Rex Grossman show up? Will Cap'n Manning choke on that towel? Will Miami simply be too warm for da Bears to perform? Don't the Colts' blue-and-white totally look better than whatever 80's hangover colors Chicago has goin on? And the question that determines the outcome of the game: Will Prince play "Cold Sweat"? The sho' nuff funkiness will be fodder for sports commentators all day long. Aw man Puppiez?! I am so tuning into that one.
• Mr. meredithea and I are going to watch the game to root for the Bears and see how many times Manning licks his fingers. (Watch him -- it's so yucky and compulsive.) And we're also going to eat nachos.
• Bearz 57, Colts nuthin' I miss Chicago, but at least I'm still in Ill-Annoy... Go Bears!
• Bears 28 Colts 10
• What? Oh, skunk. Righto. Never mind.
• Lessee..in a rumble between a horse and a bear...depends on the terrain, I guess.

• Thank you mecurious, for being the only one not too traumatized by being beat up by jocks in highschool to actually have an appreciation of sports... posted by rocket88 at 04:03PM UTC on February 03, 2007

  Wow. Some salt for your shoulder, victim boy?
• Bears, naturally. Though I have a feeling the Colts will win somewhat handily, but I'm hoping I'm wrong. I've never liked them (even though they don't play that way anymore, they always personified the worst of the AFC to me), and no matter what just can't get behind Peyton. I do like Dungy though, but one coach ain't enough. I like Lovie Smith too, so. Chicago's cold weather, hard-hitting NFC football; best I can ask for as a Giants fan (though if the Pats had won last week, I'd be cheering for them - people who don't love the Pats (other than Colts fans, who have a valid reason) are treated as suspect in my books.
• only because Dungy and I went to the same high school... Pffft, you guys went to high school at my middle school.
• Why do almost all football predictions include the score? How silly is that? It is not really done in any other sport. Predictions in other sports are almost "Yankees will win" or "Lakers will win." Sometimes someone will predict a close game or a high scoring game, but they won't say, "Lakers 99 Bulls 95." What does that even mean? Why would anyone care? Go ahead and tell me who you think will win the game. Don't tell me what you think that score will be. This all has to do with football being more about gambling than any other sport, but I won't go into that right now
• Never been to India, eh?
• I would like to take this opportunity to say that I watched the Cards win the World Series projected onto a large movie screen in the back of a gay bar last October, drunk out of my mind and promising my wife I'd dye my facial hair red if they won game 5. It is how all sports should be watched. I don't like NFL football all that much.