Monday - January 22, 2007

Super!

The last time the Bears were in the Super Bowl was 21 years ago in 1986. Ronald Reagan was President of the US, the Chernobyl nuclear plant was about to melt down and the space shuttle Challenger was about to blow up. “Iron Mike” Ditka was coaching the Bears and they won Super Bowl XX by a score of 46-10 over the New England Patriots. The Patriots would later come back to play in four Super Bowls, winning three of them. The Bears haven’t been back to the big dance since.

The last time the Colts were in the Super Bowl was in 1969. They were the Baltimore Colts, Lyndon Johnson was about to be replaced by Richard Nixon as President of the US, Neil Armstrong was about to walk on the moon and the hippies were heading to Woodstock. Johnny Unitas was quarterback and the Colts got whupped 16-7 in Super Bowl III by the New York Jets and a rookie QB from the University Of Alabama named Joe Namath. In later years, Namath went on to make panty hose commercials and the Colts had to sneak out of town in the dead of night and run off to Indianapolis to hide their shame.

Now you know ...

  

BOOKIES ODDS
_{(TIME/CNN) January 22, 2007}

Chuck Esposito, assistant vice president of Harrah’s Entertainment Inc.’s Caesars Palace sports book, made the Colts 6.5-point favorites, giving a nod to the Bears’ defense, which had four takeaways from the Saints.

The over/under line for the Super Bowl, in Miami on Feb. 4, was set at 49 or 49.5 points, meaning book makers expect a high-scoring game and the public to root for lots of points.

“I see it as a wide open game,” said John Avello, director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas. “This is one of those games where you’ve got to score, you’ve got to put points up to win the big one.”

Las Vegas book makers were preparing literally hundreds of proposition bets, on everything from interceptions by the quarterbacks to how many tackles Bears linebacker Brian Urlacher will make in the biggest sports betting event of the year.

_{P.S. This will be the first time in history that the Super Bowl will be coached by two black coaches ... as if anyone cares about that sort of thing nowadays. When I look at Tony Dungee of the Colts, all I see are freckles and a chance to finally win the Big One after coming so close so many times. When I look at Lovie Smith of the Bears, I see one of the finest coaches in the league who is paid less than every other coach in the NFL.}

Posted by The Skipper     on 01/22/2007 at 06:06 AM   
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