I only wanted 2 see u laughing in the purple rain

Another Super Bowl come and gone, wrapping up the season but for next week's Pro Bowl (all-star game), which is typically well attended because it takes place in Hawaii, but nearly completely unwatchable. As for the Super Bowl, Indianapolis basically won going away, like most people predicted, after spotting Chicago a 7-point lead when the opening kickoff was returned for a touchdown. From that point on, it was basically all Indy, even though the Chicago defense did yeoman's work while being on the field pretty much the entire first half. Chicago's problem was pretty simple: their quarterback, Rex Grossman, sucks. He sucks a lot. He is almost certainly the worst quarterback to "lead" his team to the Super Bowl, where by "lead" I mean let the defense, special teams, and the running backs score enough points to cover over his numerous mistakes. Knowing this, and having seen their defense and running back set up their second touchdown, making the score 14-6 Bears, Chicago proceeded to throw the ball a lot. Grossman threw a few to his own team for not enough yardage to make much of a difference, a couple to the Colts defenders, and a few to the turf just to keep things interesting. Next time, against a defense that proved all year that they can't stop the run, and in a pouring rain that must make getting a grip on the ball extremely difficult, try....RUNNING the GODDAMN BALL!!!.

In the end, the game itself was slightly better than mediocre, making about average for a Super Bowl all things considered. The highlight probably was, as pointed out at Americablog, Prince using a projection screen to turn his guitar into a genitalia image during an extremely lackluster halftime show (U2 and the Rolling Stones were better the past couple years). Thankfully, the game will do some good for the world: in the next week or two, many, many children in Africa will acquire all sorts of brand new clothing celebrating the Bears' victory over the Colts that didn't actually happen.

As for me, have no fear of regular sports posts disappearing over the coming months (I know many, many of you were worried). Pitchers and catchers report a week from Thursday, and the NCAA basketball tournament, undoubtedly the most exciting tournament in US sports (let's face it, nothing compares to the World Cup), begins as always in March. Until then, you'll have to content yourself with literally hundreds of Mainstream Media stories in which Tony Dungy praises Jesus, and it is explained that Peyton Manning is not a choker, as they've been reporting every week for the past nine years. I can't wait.