Congrats to Peyton Manning [played a GREAT second half after sucking for the first 30 minutes] and the Indy Colts. Finally the Pats' reign of terror is over.

As for the Saints. We're not here to start no trouble...

CP

They kept saying that this was the biggest comeback... but some years ago... like ~94(?) I have a memory of the (then) Houston Oilers coming back from a 41 point deficit... I could have imagined that.

The Pats Colts games was excellent and I am glad that horrendous calls didn't decide it.

Ahh it was 1993 and the Bills came back to BEAT the oilers from a 28 - 3 deficit! So clearly I have no idea what I'm talking about!

Read about it (where else) here.

Right you are not the only one. The biggest comeback in NFL history was between the Houston Oilers (now Tenessee Titans) and the Bills. From a Dale Kovar column:

But the teams frequently get reversed. Here's the Wikipedia article on The Comeback. The Bills won. I see we're correcting ourselves at the same rate...

Congratulations to the Colts for a great comeback and da' Bears for putting the clamps on the high-powered Saints.

We're going to hear until our ears bleed for the next two weeks about two Black coaches squaring off in the Super Bowl for the first time. I ain't mad about it either way.

I'm just hoping we won't have to suffer through another "Super Bowl Shuffle" video. Blech.

The Pats/Colts was a true heavyweight battle. I enjoyed it beginning to end. And the weekend proved that the home field advantage is real. The noise in the dome certainly hurt the Patriots and cost them a sure TD in the 4th quarter when the Colts totally blew a coverage but the noise prevented Brady from hearing the frantic calls from his receiver who was left uncovered. Similarly, the speed/timing offense of the Saints was certainly slowed down by the snow in Chicago who's power game was more suited to the bad footing and slippery field.

It just reminds me how the college bowl process favors Southern and West Coast teams inherently. You take a USC or Florida and ship them off to play in Columbus or Ann Arbor in November... and there may have been radically different results in the final rankings. But, I digress....

I'm sure that the press will have a field day with the "first black coaches in the Superbowl". I guess Dennis Green was spared this when his Minnesota Vikings folded in the fourth quarter several years ago.

Frankly, the thing I like best about the NFL (and sports in general) is that race plays no factor at all. The goal of the team is to win. What a player "looks" like is totally irrelevant. They put the best performers on the field... period.

That is what the USA should aspire to. But, there are just too many still infatuated with the past and with obsolete concepts like "race".