Super Bowl certainly was...

I'm listening to the sports media yack today about yesterday's Super Bowl, but especially all the Peyton Manning bashing that's going on. Instead of bashing him, and talking about his interception, they should be talking about how good New Orleans was as a team, from quarterback to kickers to coaches.

Wow.

I'm sure Manning and his Colts feel lousy. Maybe if their receivers had caught more balls. Maybe if Freeney and Wayne had been healthy. Maybe if their kicker had put that field-goal through the uprights. Maybe if their special team had secured the on-side kick. Maybe if Manning had not thrown that late interception.

All these maybes. But Indianapolis didn't lose this game: New Orleans won it. And to say anything else is unfair to both teams.

Rather than talk maybes, talk certainties, and the greatest certainty from that game was that New Orleans played like a team and won the game, and deservedly so. And if anyone wants to extrapolate a larger point from the metaphor of New Orleans-the-team that overcame disaster, that came back, that worked together toward a common goal, well feel free.

But here's one last certainty: the Super Bowl certainly was a great football game, the Saints should be proud of themselves, and the city should be proud of its team.