The Morning After …
The 2009 NFL season is finally over. The ā72 Dolphins are still the only team in NFL history to have run the table on a perfect season. The Saints won, the Colts lost. Damn. I was pulling for the Colts because Iām a Peyton Manning fan. I firmly believe that he is the best player in the game today, and will retire as the greatest QB to have played the game. OK, let me pause for a second while devotees of Brett Favre, Tom Brady, Dan Marino, Adrian Peterson, and the New Orleans Saints go into collective apoplexy and sputter their objections. Iāll be back in a moment.
All done? Good. If you watched the game last night, there was a surreal inevitability about the fact that Manning threw an interception towards the end of the game that sealed the victory for the Saints. Letās face it ā we generally donāt expect Peyton Manning to make mistakes. After all, he is a four-time NFL MVP and routinely dismantles opposing defenses with ruthless precision. Oh well, guess heās only 99% machine. Fate it seems is not without a sense of irony.
Speaking of fate, can all those people blathering on about how the Saints are a āteam of destinyā, or how we were āwitnessing history being madeā last night, please put the crack pipe down and go play in rush hour traffic on the freeway for a while? After a while, all this waxing rhapsodic about Hurricane Katrina and ādestinyā simply makes me want to vomit ā¦ all over the person spewing such unintelligent babble. Following their logic, does that mean that we should expect the Haitian soccer team to win the World Cup in 2014? Seriously? After all ā what makes them any less deserving to be a āteam of destinyā than the Saints? By the way, if your answer to that question comes within ten city blocks of regurgitating Pat Robertson, then please take my earlier suggestion to heart and go find a busy highway on which to play. Seriously.
Now, as a somewhat neutral observer, the game itself wasnāt all that much of a spectacle. Come to think of it, neither was the halftime show. Since CBS was broadcasting the Super Bowl, was the halftime show meant to be a plug for their CSI franchises? All three shows feature theme music written by The Who. If so, well then, mission halfway accomplished. On second thought, no ā just fire whoever came up with the idea. Roger Daltrey looked (and sounded) like heād been recently exhumed from a sarcophagus, and Pete Townshend was about as energetic as a coma patient. Oh, and for the record, adding spectacular lighting effects doesnāt make your music sound any better.
I donāt see the Saints repeating as champions. Too many free agents in a league dominated by parity. They should make the playoffs at the very least though. Either way, the fewer times I have to hear the mindless masses repeating āWho Datā as if it were some sort of mystical mantra, the better. I also donāt see the Colts making a return trip to the Super Bowl next year either. Thatās a pity. Since the Super Bowl will be played at the Jerry-bowl next year, I would certainly love to see the Cowboys and the Colts square off. I guess I can hope. Let the planning for next year begin ā¦
February 8, 2010
Posted in: Dallas Cowboys, Sports
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