Let's be honest. The media is in love with Peyton Manning winning his first Super Bowl. So in love with this idea that some are saying that he deserves to win. This is utter rubbish. John Elway got to three Super Bowls with not one, yes, not one Pro Bowl player on offense. That is leadership. Peyton has so much talent on offense that the fact that he hasn't one a championship already speaks volumes of his failings. Both him and Dungy are losers. Peyton has not removed the monkey off his back by beating the Patriots. He needs to win the Super Bowl to remove the monkey.
The media's memory lapses go beyond Peyton to somehow believing that the Colts have a strong defense. This is based on playing tough against KC and Baltimore. I'm sorry, but they were ranked 32 in the league this year and no team with a defense ranked lower than 10th has ever won a Super Bowl. The Colts lost 4 out of their last 7 games to teams including the Texans and the Titans. This is not some juggernaut rolling through to an inevitable win.
As is often the case, the media and the talking heads are more interested in the story than the facts. That somehow his Sprint, Gatorade, MasterCard and whatever else Peyton prostitutes himself for justify him being a champion. Exposure does not equal champion, just ask LeBron.
I'm always a little wary when things seem too well scripted. Look at the Cardinals this year. They had no chance to even win a game against the Tigers. What about the Heat? Down 2-0 to the genius of Avery Johnson? How did that turn out? How about the Buckeyes and all their inevitability against the supposedly lucky to be there Gators?
What I believe we have in this Super Bowl is not an air of inevitability, but the drowning weight of expectations. No one has had higher expectations than Peyton. The Scion of that ultimate loser Archie and older brother of overrated loser Eli. Some people are losers and some are winners. Peyton is a loser, like his father before him and his brother after him.
This weight will weigh down the Colts, Freeney, Manning and Dungy. So much so that they will play tight and the Bears will be loose. So loose that they are going to run away with this game. Final Score: 34 - 16
3 comments:
after a season of bashing the bears are you gays finally on the bandwagon.
touche my anonymous friend, touche. but don't you just hate the mannings?
i don't this blog was that much different on the bears than the general chicago sportswriters
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