The superbowl thread
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I'm defining worst in that most of the guys I listed got no further than 1 superbowl appearance, had extremely limited success in the playoffs outside of their Super Bowl season and only started for their prospective teams for 2 or 3 seasons. Warner had 2 and 3 amazing seasons but outside of that was an arena player or quickly lost his starting job 3 or 4 weeks into a season and is notorious for fumbling under pressure. Hoss is pretty much the only one who wasn't gone from the league within 3 seasons of his victory.
eta: My real point was that Rex is still only a 2nd or 3rd year starter. He still has some future in the league and nobody will think much of this season if he leads the Bears to 3 or 4 more at the top. Brady was pretty unspectacular that first year with the Pats. Even Pats fans wondered whether or not we'd be better off with Bledsoe back in.
eta: My real point was that Rex is still only a 2nd or 3rd year starter. He still has some future in the league and nobody will think much of this season if he leads the Bears to 3 or 4 more at the top. Brady was pretty unspectacular that first year with the Pats. Even Pats fans wondered whether or not we'd be better off with Bledsoe back in.
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Wouldn't be the same without "Sweetness!" 
When my teams are out, I try to root for a favorite player or coach who hasn't won. i.e. Elway, Jim Kelly, unless the Steelers are in it,in which case I will root for ANYONE, (even the Cowboys) against them. I like Manning, and I think Dungy deserves to win a ring as a coach. So
GO COLTS!!!!
When my teams are out, I try to root for a favorite player or coach who hasn't won. i.e. Elway, Jim Kelly, unless the Steelers are in it,in which case I will root for ANYONE, (even the Cowboys) against them. I like Manning, and I think Dungy deserves to win a ring as a coach. So
GO COLTS!!!!
The Poll sure does not match up with the responses.
I'm rooting for the Colts. I like Peyton Manning and I like the Colts. All curses come to an end, and so far it seems Mannings is happening before our very eyes. ...anyone remember the RedSox? Hmmm...
Here is the Onions take on Bears win on Sunday and what it means to people of Chicago.
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bears_inspire_a_city_still_reeling
http://www.theonion.com/content/news/bears_inspire_a_city_still_reeling
If there is anyone that I wouldn't mind being compared to Joe Montana it is Peyton. I think he is a great player and he deserves a championship a heckuva lot more than Rex 'the hex' Grossman. Not to say that the Bears defense and special teams doesn't deserve recognition, I just think it would be blasphemy if Rex gets a ring at this point in his career. But heck I guess anything can happen, right. I mean Roethelisberger got one just last year. So maybe the times are changing.
Rallying around Rex
Keeping Grossman confident; voting on greatest team
MIAMI -- We overplay everything in the Super Bowl. Always have. And you can be sure that 90 percent of everything we write and jabber about in the six days before The Game will have absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of The Game.
But based on my first couple of days here, one thing that could have something to do with how the game is played involves Rex Grossman. The Bears are defending him vociferously and passionately, and turning the guns on the press for pointing out Grossman's inconsistencies. I applaud Lovie Smith for being so solidly in Grossman's corner in the past month, and I wrote about that in the current Sports Illustrated. I also applaud Grossman for playing with the kind of confidence he's had in the playoffs. Even if he plays poorly for long stretches, he's shown the ability to make some big plays when he needs them, as he did against the Saints late in the third quarter of a close NFL title game.
Enough, though, with shooting the messenger. "We've had a chance to prepare ourselves for this,'' Smith said Monday at his press conference. "Most of you [reporters], you know, would like to let him know just how bad he is. We're not buying it. He's not buying it.''
Grossman's a good man. Hard-working. Seems focused. But I question how much this endless defense by his team will factor into his approach Sunday night. Is he going to burn to prove everyone wrong so much that his first three balls sail 10 feet over his receivers' heads? That's the danger. As Phil Simms said recently about his 22-of-25 day in Super Bowl XXI, "We got shielded so well by Bill Parcells. I'm glad I didn't know how big the game was beforehand or I know I'd really have been nervous.''
Grossman handled himself well Tuesday morning at Media Day at Dolphin Stadium. Looking bright, engaged, patient, and wearing an orange Super Bowl XLI hat, he said: "I'm not overwhelmed. I just feel like I'm talking to you guys ... My attitude is, 'Never get too high, never get too low. Just stay in the middle, even in the middle of adversity in the middle of a game.' That's the best way to handle things as a quarterback.'' He was poked and jabbed at for an hour, but didn't show any signs of anger at being the story of the week.
Grossman isn't a bad quarterback. He's just an inconsistent one. And that inconsistency, plus the specter of playing in the biggest game of his life, makes for a great story heading into the game. Just because Lovie Smith and Grossman and every other player on the team say it's not a story doesn't make it not a story.
In the last 11 weeks of the regular season, Grossman had one no-touchdown, four-interception game, and three no-touchdown, three-interception games. Four games: no touchdowns, 13 interceptions. Normally, without a great supporting cast, a quarterback would be 0-4 in those games. Grossman went 2-2, thanks to Devin Hester running wild and Brian Urlacher stripping Edgerrin James at Arizona, and thanks to a strong defensive effort at Minnesota. If Grossman plays poorly on Sunday, the Bears won't be able to bail him out against a good team like Indianapolis.
We'll see how he reacts. If he comes through this with a 60-percent-passing, turnover-free game, and the Bears win, he'll have overcome more than most people could.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/peter_king/01/30/bears/index.html
Keeping Grossman confident; voting on greatest team
MIAMI -- We overplay everything in the Super Bowl. Always have. And you can be sure that 90 percent of everything we write and jabber about in the six days before The Game will have absolutely nothing to do with the outcome of The Game.
But based on my first couple of days here, one thing that could have something to do with how the game is played involves Rex Grossman. The Bears are defending him vociferously and passionately, and turning the guns on the press for pointing out Grossman's inconsistencies. I applaud Lovie Smith for being so solidly in Grossman's corner in the past month, and I wrote about that in the current Sports Illustrated. I also applaud Grossman for playing with the kind of confidence he's had in the playoffs. Even if he plays poorly for long stretches, he's shown the ability to make some big plays when he needs them, as he did against the Saints late in the third quarter of a close NFL title game.
Enough, though, with shooting the messenger. "We've had a chance to prepare ourselves for this,'' Smith said Monday at his press conference. "Most of you [reporters], you know, would like to let him know just how bad he is. We're not buying it. He's not buying it.''
Grossman's a good man. Hard-working. Seems focused. But I question how much this endless defense by his team will factor into his approach Sunday night. Is he going to burn to prove everyone wrong so much that his first three balls sail 10 feet over his receivers' heads? That's the danger. As Phil Simms said recently about his 22-of-25 day in Super Bowl XXI, "We got shielded so well by Bill Parcells. I'm glad I didn't know how big the game was beforehand or I know I'd really have been nervous.''
Grossman handled himself well Tuesday morning at Media Day at Dolphin Stadium. Looking bright, engaged, patient, and wearing an orange Super Bowl XLI hat, he said: "I'm not overwhelmed. I just feel like I'm talking to you guys ... My attitude is, 'Never get too high, never get too low. Just stay in the middle, even in the middle of adversity in the middle of a game.' That's the best way to handle things as a quarterback.'' He was poked and jabbed at for an hour, but didn't show any signs of anger at being the story of the week.
Grossman isn't a bad quarterback. He's just an inconsistent one. And that inconsistency, plus the specter of playing in the biggest game of his life, makes for a great story heading into the game. Just because Lovie Smith and Grossman and every other player on the team say it's not a story doesn't make it not a story.
In the last 11 weeks of the regular season, Grossman had one no-touchdown, four-interception game, and three no-touchdown, three-interception games. Four games: no touchdowns, 13 interceptions. Normally, without a great supporting cast, a quarterback would be 0-4 in those games. Grossman went 2-2, thanks to Devin Hester running wild and Brian Urlacher stripping Edgerrin James at Arizona, and thanks to a strong defensive effort at Minnesota. If Grossman plays poorly on Sunday, the Bears won't be able to bail him out against a good team like Indianapolis.
We'll see how he reacts. If he comes through this with a 60-percent-passing, turnover-free game, and the Bears win, he'll have overcome more than most people could.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/peter_king/01/30/bears/index.html
Bill Simmons has pics and commentary he took while attending "media day".
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/mediaday07/part1
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/mediaday07/part1
