Dave’s Football Blog

There’s a joke here about Wayne Rooney’s hair and a very unfortunate carpet burn, but I can’t quite find it. Instead, feel free to add your own uproarious caption in the comments.

(Spotted on Who Ate All the Pies)

Just because Prince is a Jehovah’s Witness now doesn’t mean he forgot how to get your attention…

I’m debating whether people will be talking more about this than the fact that he sang a Foo Fighters song. At least one blogger, though, thinks that “All Along The Watchtower”/”The Best of You” medley may have been an anti-war statement.

Of course, the full halftime show is already on YouTube: Part 1, Part 2.

I see you, Courtney Love, and you can kiss my purple ass!

UPDATE (2/7): It just occurred to me… Didn’t the Foo Fighters cover “Darling Nikki” a few years ago? That must be why Prince covered them in this show. Dave Grohl probably inadvertently helped pay for Prince’s settlement with Carlos Boozer…

All the gamblers were praying that the Bears could pull out one last miracle drive to cover the spread, but it was not to be. Tony Dungy met Lovie Smith in the middle of the field and told him, “Guess what, Lovie? You’re the first black head coach to lose the Super Bowl! Oh, snap!”

Seriously, though, Tony Dungy and Peyton Manning got the monkeys off their back. Those monkeys can go back to doing Bud Light commercials. Manning will do the rest of the commercials. Hopefully, those ads won’t be as lame as the majority of the ads shown during this game…

Albert was going to rewind the DVR and show some latecomers the Prince concert, but he accidently changed the channel, so we lost the entire queue. Albert said, “Sorry, dude, I pulled a Rex Grossman.” At least we get to see the trophy presentation in the pouring rain…

Don Shula brought the trophy to the winners stage. The Colts players touched the trophy all the way through Shula’s walk to the stage. He had this look on his face that said, “Yeah, keep touching. You fuckers should never have left Baltimore.” Meanwhile, Tony Dungy was the first to thank God, and Peyton Manning was named MVP and gets the ticket-me red Cadillac. He has the biggest shit-eating grin, too. On the bright side, he’s actually crediting his team and not throwing anyone under the bus.

Meanwhile, Edgerrin James and Mike Vanderjagt are slitting their wrists in the bathtub right now…

And that’s that. Another glorious season of NFL football is in the books. The party in Indiana will last through the start of training camp. Should be fun times up there. Time to pack up the sandwich remainders and depart the Rebel Base. The lawyers didn’t stop us, either. Take that, Goodell!

Two minutes left, and the Colts are running out the clock. The only question left is who will be MVP.

Peyton Manning? 25 for 38, 247 yards, 1 TD, 1 INT.

Joseph Addai? 19 carries for 77 yards, 10 catches for 66 yards.

Dominic Rhodes? 19 carries, 112 yards, 1 TD.

My vote right now is for Rhodes.

NFL Network may have showed the best commercial of the night — all manner of team fans looking somber at the end of the season, followed by a caption, “It’s so hard to say goodbye.” Then they showed Brett Favre tossing a ball around. “For some, it’s even harder.” I laughed my ass off at that one…

Yeah, it’s Bad Rex(TM) tonight. He just threw another pick, this time to Bob Sanders. I don’t think it could get any uglier for him tonight…

Someone asked, “What are those white things on the field?” They were towels. Albert declared they were Rex Grossman’s panties. Someone else replied that he threw them at Prince during halftime, but Prince threw them back. Sounds like Chicago, doesn’t it?

CBS just showed this one:

TOTAL YARDS: Colts 393, Bears 153.

Ouch.

Rex Grossman just threw up a dying quail on first down that got intercepted by Kelvin Hayden. I have no idea who Kelvin Hayden is, but he just scored a touchdown in the freaking Super Bowl. His grandkids are going to hear that story once a year one day.

The Colts now lead 29-17. Jim Nantz informs us that no Super Bowl team has come back from a deficit of more than 10. There’s a lot of fretting in the Second City right now…

The Jay-Z/Don Shula ad? I really like the concept, but I’m not sure about the delivery. I may need to look at that one again…

Colts offensive coordinator Tom Moore bears a striking resemblance to Statler….

That’s the one on the right, by the way.

Y’know, for as one-sided as this game has been offensively, this is still a pretty close game. The Bears’ early surge and the Colts’ inability to get in the end zone on most of their long scoring drives are keeping Chicago fans’ hopes alive. Everyone in the Second City is now hoping that the Colts haven’t worn the Bears’ defense down.

Peyton Manning is doing a decent job after his shaky early start. Rex Grossman hasn’t impressed me, but neither has much of the Bears’ offense. Take away his big 52-yard run, and Thomas Jones only has 26 yards on 10 carries. That’s not gonna get it done…

The amount of hate for Prince’s halftime show in the FanHouse comments is staggering. Get over yourselves, people.

After Adam Vinatieri kicked an ugly but successful 24-yard field goal on the Colts’ first drive of the second half, Rex Grossman went from 2nd and 1 to 4th and 23 in two plays — an almost sack in which Rex tripped over his own feet, and a fumbled snap that he bobbled and had to fall on.

The Bears time of possession? 12:07. The Colts? 27:30. And counting.

Joseph Addai is making a case for MVP at this point with almost 130 yards on 27 touches. (16 carries, 10 receptions.) If the Colts win, it’ll come down to Addai, Peyton Manning, or Adam Vinatieri, who just kicked another field goal. He’s 3 for 4 so far today. The Colts now lead, 22-14.

“Dwayne Wade… Is this your dad?” Nice.