• NFL’s lawyers sack church’s game plan
  You have got to be kidding me! First the NFL Network nonsense this year and now this. Using their trademark “Super Bowl” in promotional materials, fine, don’t allow that but I can’t even imagine the number of churches in violation of their “55 inches or smaller” policy regardless of what they call their get together. The NFL needs to get their heads out of their rears and start worrying about what “extracurricular activities” their players are up to.
• Churches react to NFL’s Super Bowl warning
• A Super Sports City
  Bill Benner on Indianapolis’ Super Bowl 45 bid
• Palmer: Bengals’ run of arrests have to stop
• Provisions in revised Bonds deal holding up process
  More on the Bobble-head Barry front
• Mexicans protest as tortilla crisis hurts Calderon
  Interesting and something that never occurred to me before now
• Big baby causes sensation in Cancun
  Wow! 14.5 pounds of pure beefcake.
• Screwtape Moves Forward
• Miss USA, out of rehab, admits cocaine use & Trump Considers Letting Miss USA Pose for ‘Playboy’
  I now have a major problem with Mr. Trump’s motives…”Playboy wants to have Tara on the cover (and) we’re thinking about it. It wouldn’t be nude… I would never want a thing like that to happen.” Nude or not, what a slime-ball! Don’t get me started.
• Uncle Sam spoils dream trip to space
  Leave it to the government and taxes.
• Toothpaste, bouillon cubes new frontiers of piracy
  You’ve got to be kidding me.
• Bones may indicate Indian burial site
  Not surprising around Indiana, but I always find this sort of “find” interesting.
• Lavender Oil May Spur Breasts in Boys
• City fights leaky carnival crowd
  The Karnies are coming, the Karnies are coming!

And some link goodness for this Wednesday…

• Getting Inside a Great Receiver’s Mind
  Marvin Harrison speaks to the media
• Column: Manning vs. Grossman a Contrast
• James happy Colts made it to Miami
• Manning Savors Shot at the Title
• Even the squirrels know
  Katie looks a little biased, egh?
• Bears helmet breaks on statue of lion
  Don’t Bears break just about everything?
• NFL to Offer Video Downloads on iTunes
  Neat idea, though I’d rather record it myself.
• Indy to make 2011 Super Bowl bid
  Now it’s official
• “Hot” patients setting off U.S. radiation alarms
  Radioactive people are everywhere? The players better stay out of the stands.
• Chargers’ Kiel Cited for Urination
  The Chargers and the Bengals need a serious off-season talking too…and could you please stay out of the football news until after the Super Bowl & Pro Bowl?
• Raw Cougar Meat Blamed for Trichinosis
  Who’s eating cougar meat? And eating it raw!? I guess that hasn’t made its way to Indiana yet.
• French health minister seeks nap study
  Sounds good to me…only if I weren’t running my own company
• Chicken Born With Duck’s Webbed Feet
  Next stop, your chicken nuggets
• Military Shows Off New Ray Gun
  As mentioned in Trolley Dodgers Podcast #20
• Bonds can lose contract if indicted: source
  But why sign him? Oh, the steroid induced “record”, right?
• Yankee Stadium to Host ’08 All-Star Game
  Farewell to Yankee Stadium
• Student wants to ‘rent’ a girlfriend
  Ugh…in this country that’s called something else.
• ‘Gender’ Blamed for Katie Couric’s Low Ratings
  Riiight….I’m sure that’s the culprit

• Pack The Pews On Colts Super Bowl Sunday Feb 4, 2007
• More schools off for Super Bowl Monday
  Over 70 Catholic and Christian schools are taking next Monday off due to the Super Bowl. In Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) we didn’t even get the day off is there was a bomb threat. And there had to be a ton of snow to even get a “snow day”. (Needless to say, but I will anyway, yes IPS does have school next Monday.)
• Varvel’s Colts-Cubs Connection
• Mission in Miami – Q95.com WFBQ Indianapolis 94.7 FM
  Colts broadcast highlights, songs, videos & more.
• Mudkids MySpace Page
  Check out Russ & the gang and listen to Rock n’ Roll (“GO BLUE!”)
• Colts, Horses, and a Mule
  Jeff speaks up on the Colts
• News to Chicago: Indy’s Moved On
  by Bill Benner
• Super Bowl 41 Commercials on YouTube
  “Right after the game, all the Super Bowl commercials will be grouped together in a YouTube gallery.”
• Vancouver 2010 Winter Games RSS feeds

I think that it is starting to sink in that the Indianapolis Colts are headed to Super Bowl 41! After an awful first half against the New England Patriots on Sunday night I honestly began to get that feeling of “oh, so close” disappointment that has hung over us for years in major-league professional sports in this town. (As with just about everything around here, Indy seems to be a great place for development…then people move on to greener pastures.) But the Colts came out guns blazing in the second half and Peyton Manning lead the team down field for ample scoring opportunities (though not exactly pretty.)

The game was quite exciting and everything that a true Championship game should be like (though a bit taxing on the nerves of fans). And you college football BCS knuckleheads should take some notes…here you had the #3 & #4 seeds in the AFC battling it out in easily one of the best NFL games in history proving that the post season is a completely different animal that the regular season…and I can guarantee you that viewership was far better that if it had been a blowout game.

With that said, the town is hopping and I’m ready for an excellent & historic (the first black coaches in the Super Bowl and one guaranteed to be the first black coach to win the Super Bowl…very cool regardless of what your own skin tone may be) football game with the Chicago Bears. Man, it’s about time AND we have to pull out the win!

GO COLTS!!!