Sunday, February 04, 2007
A Final Super Bowl thought or two
All week the Clarion has hesitated to pick this Super Bowl, casting about for a gut feeling. It is a game, where we have no rooting interest, no allegiance.
The Bears have a terrific fan base. Both coaches are class acts. Wouldn’t it be awfully spiteful to root for Payton Manning to fail on the big stage? After all his Dad, Archie, never even got this shot.
But then all week, it has been all Manning, all the time. SportsCenter this morning had little brother, Eli on to comment about big brother, Payton. ESPN Radio last night, had Dad, Archie talking to Rex Grossman’s Pop about the trials and tribulations of being a Super Bowl Dad.
Blech.
Now we are hearing reports that the weather could be dicey. At least dicey for Miami, thunderstorms and wind are potentially in the mix. That kind of weather would sure help the plodding Bears, who would prefer to run the ball, and hurt the dome team Colts, who would prefer precision passing. Recall, too that only once has a dome team ever won the Super Bowl. (The St. Louis Rams)
You know we love better quarterback theory, here at the Clarion, but we’ll spin it for you this way, although Payton Manning seems the quarterback far more likely to have an excellent game, he and Grossman seem equally likely to throw up a clunker. While we could only see Manning throwing for 350+ and 4 TDs, either QB could blow up, screw up and have a four turnover game.
Bill Simmons says when everyone is going one way on a football game, you are better off going the other. Well, the overwhelming majority surely likes the Colts.
And if one was looking for a reason to detest one franchise or the other, the Colts did disloyally slink out of Baltimore in the middle of the night. Ditching a loyal fan base, and eternally skewing the classic movie "Diner" for future generations.
Finally, there is the, “Do the Gators rule the sports world theory?” we threw at you early this week...
At this paper, well, we are advocates, guess we’ll root for 'da Bears.
The Bears have a terrific fan base. Both coaches are class acts. Wouldn’t it be awfully spiteful to root for Payton Manning to fail on the big stage? After all his Dad, Archie, never even got this shot.
But then all week, it has been all Manning, all the time. SportsCenter this morning had little brother, Eli on to comment about big brother, Payton. ESPN Radio last night, had Dad, Archie talking to Rex Grossman’s Pop about the trials and tribulations of being a Super Bowl Dad.
Blech.
Now we are hearing reports that the weather could be dicey. At least dicey for Miami, thunderstorms and wind are potentially in the mix. That kind of weather would sure help the plodding Bears, who would prefer to run the ball, and hurt the dome team Colts, who would prefer precision passing. Recall, too that only once has a dome team ever won the Super Bowl. (The St. Louis Rams)
You know we love better quarterback theory, here at the Clarion, but we’ll spin it for you this way, although Payton Manning seems the quarterback far more likely to have an excellent game, he and Grossman seem equally likely to throw up a clunker. While we could only see Manning throwing for 350+ and 4 TDs, either QB could blow up, screw up and have a four turnover game.
Bill Simmons says when everyone is going one way on a football game, you are better off going the other. Well, the overwhelming majority surely likes the Colts.
And if one was looking for a reason to detest one franchise or the other, the Colts did disloyally slink out of Baltimore in the middle of the night. Ditching a loyal fan base, and eternally skewing the classic movie "Diner" for future generations.
Finally, there is the, “Do the Gators rule the sports world theory?” we threw at you early this week...
At this paper, well, we are advocates, guess we’ll root for 'da Bears.
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