We are closing in on pro football's premiere event, the Super Bowl. The advertisers are all geared up, hoping to score big with their newest commercials. The local stores will have plenty of Super Bowl party supplies on the shelves and sports fans around the world will be tuning in.
Some of our brave men and women over seas will get a small break from harms way, facing people that would kill them. So as we all settle in on Super Sunday lets have kind thoughts for the people serving in foreign lands and give them a quiet thank you and our best hopes they all return home safe.
Essential to any big event is the pregame ritual, the water cooler talk. Can the Saints hang with Peyton and the Colts? Speculation runs wild and is half the fun.
We have the Siants, it wasn't all that long ago they were called the Aints and fans showed up wearing paper bags over their heads. Ah the good old days, not any more. Now the Saints fans are loud and proud. They should be, after Katrina the Big Easy has had little to cheer about. Even the NFL who has benefited so much from New Orleans did little to help the city recover. Bryant Gumbel did a piece covering that on his sports show a couple years back and was deeply disturbed at how little the NFL did.
Now comes the Saints, instilling a sense of pride and hope for the good people New Orleans, one they richly deserve. It adds symmetry that the Colts are the opponent of the field, but no in heart. Peyton is a New Orleans kid.
For me this game is starting to take on the flavor of Super Bowl 3 the Colts Vs the Jets. The blue blood vs the up start.
The difference being, there will be no Broadway Joe, Drew Brees is a fine quarterback and deserves to be in the Super Bowl, he just aint no Willy Joe.
Unlike Mr. Namath in Miami all those years ago, you wont see Drew Brees hanging out at swimming pools neck deep in a bevy of bikini clad beauties any more than you will hear him do as Joe, guarantee the win.
I suspect both teams will work hard this week and be prepared come Sunday, will it be a game like so many before, dull and predictable or will we see fire works from two top quarterbacks and explosive quick strikes from the running game. Although Reggie Bush has not ignited the league with brilliant runs, he is capable of breaking a big one any time he touches the ball.
As a long time Boise State fan, I like the role of underdog and cheer for them, this Sunday for me it is Go Saints.
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