Super Bowl XLIV

I know that the New Orleans Saints are the sentimental “feel good” favorites of the media and most football fans who aren’t Indianapolis Colts fans.

Unfortunately for the Saints, they still have to play the game this coming Sunday in South Florida. The Saints played a sloppy and undisciplined game two weeks ago against the Minnesota Vikings. Lucky for the Saints, the Vikings played a sloppier game turning the ball over four times. The last turnover probably cost the Vikings a trip to the Super Bowl when Bret Favre basically handed the Saints the game with his idiotic throw that turned into an easy interception just as the Vikings were approaching comfortable field goal range with less than a minute left in regulation.

The Saints then won the toss and scored (field goal) in their first possession of overtime.

My prediction for this Sunday’s Super Bowl is that the Colts will roll over the Saints in Super Bowl XLIV (That’s 44 for all of the Obama zombies out there). The Colts are a much more disciplined team than the Saints, and Peyton Manning has been here before; he won’t develop brain-lock under pressure and hand the Saints the game like Bret Favre did.

I can’t help but comment on the whole New Orleans/Katrina focus that the media will be exploiting. We’ll hear the usual gobbledygook about how much a Saints victory will mean to the people of New Orleans and the victims of Katrina in particular.

To that I say – give me a break!

Will a Saints victory rebuild any homes that were destroyed?

Will a Saints victory put any money into the pockets of the Katrina victims?

Will a Saints victory finally fix the issues with the levees?

This is just another feel-good story that the media is pushing. It has nothing to do with the real world and the people who went through Katrina.

If the Saints win, the people of New Orleans might feel a little better for a day or two, but they then have to start dealing with reality again. Only the media can attach such meaning to a mere sports event. After all, they are the ones who live in a self-induced bubble out of touch with the real world that most of the rest of us live in.

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