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The Super Bowl, while a decent enough game between two of the game’s best teams and two of the league’s best quarterbacks, honestly bored the Hell out of me. I believe part of it was because there weren’t really any big hits, amazing catches, or really big plays. Both the Colts and Saints seemed to drive at will and would only have drives stopped because of mistakes on their part, except for the goal line stand towards the end of the first half (only reason Colts didn’t score at the goal line at the end of the game was the ball went right through Wayne’s hands).

It’s almost as if both Brees and Manning were too good at finding the open receiver and too good at putting the ball right where the receiver could make the easy grab. There were no David Tyree catch-the-ball-off-your-helmet moments or ones where a player like Larry Fitzgerald just proved he was a man among boys. It was quality football between two fantastic offenses and a few defenses that made some huge plays every now and then — the TAINT (touchdown after interception) and the Freeney sack.

Maybe the bigger problem is that I liked both teams and honestly didn’t give two shits about who won the game. I was clapping for scores or big plays by either team and was mainly just hopping it was a close game throughout. My biggest disappointment was the TAINT that ended the game instead of the Colts being able to tie it and possibly put the SB into OT. I’m glad Brees got a ring and am extremely happy that the Saints won a SB for the first time ever. But, if they had lost I wouldn’t have really cared that much. I guess that’s what honestly bored me the most. It’s much easier to get excited if you really love one team or really hate the other. When you’re indifferent and just want a good football game, it’s hard to get all that emotional.

Oh, yeah, it also didn’t help that the ads mostly sucked and the half-time show was 30 years past due.

My plan to jinx the Patriots by predicting a blowout worked!!!! I am so unbelievably happy right now, no words can really describe the emotions I’m feeling. My sports life has been so crap over the past five plus years that I’ve been getting most of my joy out of seeing teams I hate do poorly. The New England Patriots going 19-0 would’ve been extremely hard to stomach. But to see them go 18-0 and then choke in the Super Bowl is without a doubt one of the greatest things I’ve witnessed in my lifetime as a sports fan.

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I’ll be rooting for the New York football Giants, but I think it’s a forgone conclusion that the Patriots are going to win this game and finish off their 19-0 “perfect season”.  The only question is whether they’ll win a close game or in a blowout. My money would be on the blowout because Belichick has had two weeks to prepare (or cheat) for this game and should have no problem confusing Meli. Final Score — Patriots 45 Giants 13.

In more exciting news, keep an eye out for my friend, Porsche Lee Briggs, in the Gatorade G2 commercial starring Peyton Manning! She’s apparently one of the “hotties” in the luxury box with him or something. FYI, she’s the pretty girl in the Flickr photo stream at the top of the page.