>Congrats Mike Beane. Your Bears did it. They deserve it.
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>But I'm more happy for Tony Dungy tho.


No congratulations due me, especially since I predicted the Saints would win. But I am thrilled, along with about 8 million others here. It's been 21 years since the Bears went to the Super Bowl and we are relishing it.

It's going to be another game where I am cheering for the Bears but won't be disappointed either way. The Colts are another team I like and have defended against the doubters. All those who can't shut up about Peyton Manning being nobody until we wins the big one can pipe down now. Bringing your team back from a 21-3 deficit against the Patriots, with a banged-up thumb for part of the time, should silence the doubting Kevins. (Well, some of them won't lay off until he wins the Super Bowl, but I consider that their problem, not his).

Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy being the first black head coaches in the Super Bowl is a nice angle. I hope it doesn't get overdone. (It will, of course). What I like and respect about both of them is not the color of their skin but the way they comport themselves on the field. Neither of them is the typical football coach type with a neck vein about to burst at any moment. You can see the loyalty their players feel toward them.