Out With the Old, In With the New
Mood:  hungry
I have to say that I’m over it now. We have found a new head coach, Mike Tomlin. He’s young, has a pretty good defensive mind, and hopefully can put the spark and fire back into us that we so desperately need. Like I said last time, I’ll miss our former coach, but something was missing last season.

On to the Super Bowl, but first, here is a recap of last time. Wild Card Round—AFC: Colts over Chiefs (handily, I was right in my pick, saying their defense would work really hard in trying to stop the run, so why the hell am I not on TV?) and Patriots (ugh) over Jets. NFC: Eagles over Giants (good game, came down to a field goal with like 3 seconds to go) and the default winners of the NFC West over the Cowboys (Tony Romo, meet Bill Buckner, ouch). Divisional Round—AFC: Colts over Ravens (battle of the field goals, when asked, all Tony Dungy could reply was “money”) and Patriots (ugh) over Charger (San Diego GAVE that game away, it was absolutely disgusting). NFC: Saints over Eagles and Bears over the default winners of the NFC West. Conference Championships—AFC: Colts over Patriots (ugh). I hadn’t been so happy since the previous season’s AFC Championship game. I HAD to cheer for the Colts, not only because I really despise the Patriots, but also because I knew that if New England won that game, they were on their way to becoming the second team to win 4 Super Bowls in 6 years, a feat only accomplished by the 70’s Steelers. I say that because there was no way that New England was losing the Super Bowl. Especially since they had already beaten the NFC Champions this season, which brings us to… NFC: Bears over Saints. It was a magical ride while it lasted for the Saints, and hopefully they can be contenders next year. Show everyone that you are for real by being back in the playoffs next year; try to take that next step forward.

So, all that being said your Super Bowl XLI match up: Colts vs. Bears. Now, who do I pull for? I mean, I wanted to cheer for the Saints, but they’re out of it. Once again, fate, destiny, whatever you want to call it, seems to be with Indianapolis. And all those other years, I would have pulled for them, I really would have. And I like Tony Dungy; he’s such a great coach, a great guy, and an ex-Steelers’ player. Plus, Peyton has all the stats, but he’s lacking the ring; unfortunately he’s the problem. The Blog 'n' Gold said it best when they were weighing the pros and cons for the four remaining teams before the Conference Championship games:

• Indianapolis Colts
Pros: Good guy Tony Dungy gets a ring; Eli Manning is made to feel even more inferior to Peyton than he already does.
Cons: You think there are a lot of Peyton Manning commercials now? Just wait.

I like how the Eli comment is a “pro.” LOL!

I just think that I might cheer for the Bears, since I’m usually for the underdog; unless the underdog is playing against the Steelers. It all depends on how the game goes, especially if one of the teams gets out to an enormous lead. I just hope it’s an interesting game, and not something that I’ll be bored with by halftime. Speaking of halftime, this year’s show is Prince. Since he’s most likely won’t be performing Scandalous, it being a slow song and all, and probably won’t do Seven, my reaction towards it is leaning towards “meh.”

Man, one year ago tomorrow, the Steelers became the five-time World Champions. All I got are my memories and VHS tapes.

Is it wrong that the most emotion that I expressed about anything over the past few weeks was the untimely death of a fictional character? What does that say about me? Even though it was so wrong of them to kill J.T. off like that. Bad form!

I don’t even have a photo of Ben that I want to put up. It’s been that kind of day.

Gotta go, I’m .

I’m phasing.

P.S. We’re still World Champions! Well, for a couple more hours anyway.

P.P.S. Lost (bestshowever) returns on Wednesday! And emoticon kitties still rock!