Everyone is in a lather over the anticipation of today's Super Bowl.The first time ever two teams will meet that both started out the season 13-0. If you look in the past, overall the Super Bowl has been big disappointments. They hardly ever come down to the last minute like last year.
Indianapolis is lead by Peyton Manning and if you believe every thing over the last two weeks he is next to God on a football field. Dree Brees since his departure from San Diego has been the best quarterback in football according to the numbers. The Colts are living off of Manning will pull us through while the Saints are selling the we want to do it for those in New Orleans and the hurricane in 2004.
Both teams numbers are inflated by playing mediocre schedules. The sixteen teams the Saints have played averaged only 5.2 wins the entire season. The Colts a whopping 5.8. Both have feasted off the pitiful.
The only playoff team that New Orleans beat the entire regular season was New England, while the Colts beat Arizona, New England and Baltimore.
They say that defenses win championships. New Orleans gave up at least twenty points twelve times. The colts were better allowing twenty only five times.
The news media would make you think that Peyton Manning had never lost a game in his life but heading into today's Super Bowl he is only 9-8 in playoff games. Drew Brees is 3-4.
All indications are this will be the highest scoring game in Super Bowl history. A high scoring game will only be exciting if it is 38-35. 45-20 will not be exciting.
I have no dog in this fight and I don't have a hatred for either team so when the game is over I will not cry if one loses over the other. Everyone wants this game to be a 51-45 game but I think conservatism will take over rather quickly.
I think the Colts have the better defense and will some how make the game a Colt win.
I'll take the Colts 31-20.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
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