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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Super Picks

Time for a little Super Bowl post. I think the Super Bowl will be good this year. I am picking the Colts in win the game. I think they have a stronger offense and I see them going up and down the field on the Bears.

Lets break down the other ways people pick Super Bowl Winners:

Animal v. Animal: Winner Colts
Most people think that a Bear would beat a Colt in a straight out fight. This is true, but a cult would not get in a straight fight with a Bear. They would run right past the Bear. I think that will happen in this game.

Best Shopping City: Winner Chicago
I have never heard of anyone going to Indianapolis to go shopping before

Best Food: Winner Chicago
Chicago Style Pizza, Stock Yards, Chicago style hot dog, Rush Street. I Know nothing about Food from Indianapolis.

Best Uniforms: Winner Colts
This is a close one. I like the Bears Colors better, but the Colts have a more classic style.

I would rather visit: Chicago
I have been to both cities. Chicago is a world class city. Indianapolis is a little boring

Best Commercials: Winner Colts
The Peyton Manning Master Card commercials are great. These are currently the best commercial with any NFL player in it. They are better then Brian Urlacher's Nike or Chunky Soup commercials.

Best Sports Karma: Winner Colts
Indianapolis has never won a pro championship.
Chicago has a championship this Decade.
They both have one Super Bowl win, but the Bears are more recent.
Both head coaches are African-American and will be the first to win a Super Bowl.
Peyton Manning is the best player in the NFL without a Super Bowl win.

There is it the Indianapolis Colts win the Alt Picks 4-3. Tell me if there is anything else I should think about.

Labels: Bears, Colts, football, NFL, Super Bowl, tag overload

- Rich, 12:38 AM

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Super Teams

It seems like this is the year to rank Super Bowl teams. The NFL and NFL films has been doing in NFL Network with the America's Game Series. I would like to that website, but it is one of the worst websites I have ever seen. The page never stopped loading and it froze up my browser. I am surprised that the NFL does not know how to write a web page. I cannot find the results anywhere else on the web.

ESPN.com has also ranked all the teams to be in the Super Bowl from 80 to 1. I do not agree with their list all that much. ESPN looks at the whole season the team had. I think they are putting too much weight on the whole career the players had. I would not put the 1989 49ers as the greatest Super Bowl team of all time.

1. 1985 Bears
2. 1984 49ers
3. 1966 Packers
4. 1978 Steelers
5. 1968 Jets

I put the 85 Bears at the top of the list because no and I mean no one was going to beat them. You could have lined up anyone against them in the Super Bowl and they were going to win.

I like the 84 49ers because it is harder define greatness. I think this is the point where the 94ers went from a team to the team of the 80s.

The 66 Packers make my list because they were first. This might not have been the best Packers team of that 60's, but they had no road map. If they did not win this game they would not have been the team of the 60s. That is a big weight.

I put the 78 Steelers on this list because it is the first Super Bowl I remember watching. This team is mythic in my mind. There is no other way to put it

The 68 Jets is on this list because they were the underdog and still won. If they would have lost that game it would have been not shame. There is something to be said for winning when everyone else is betting against you.

Labels: 49ers, Bears, Best of All Time, football, Jets, list, NFL, Packers, Steelers, Super Bowl

- Rich, 12:58 PM

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