Nice commentary I found on Twitter about Thomas:

http://www.windycitizen.com/blogs/bullishthoughts

OH yeah, the Super Bowl. Fun stuff, and I never expected Peyton Manning to make the big mistake. Never.

maybe he was in his mind playing florida again

The Colts were giving up way too many receptions…..and did anyone else notice that they did while in the cover 2? That defense is dinosaur and will cement the firings of Lovie and Jerry.

Best Super Bowl ad- The Letterman promo with Oprah. How did that NOT toss you for a loop, Bernsie? That was my favorite ad since K-Fed.

Game was fine, but we were talking about how Payton looks like a genius in hindsight, but that if he doesn’t get those three points back at the end of the first half, or if the on-side kick was recovered by the Colts… that we may very well have seen the first Monday Morning firing of a Super Bowl Coach. His balls are much bigger than mine.

I guess there’s something to be said for the fact that he placed the focus squarely on his own shoulders. If the Saints lose that game, then his players would have likely been absolved of any wrongdoing. Nobody would have been pointing the finger at anyone but him.

I’m already sick of the “NOLA recovery” thing. Jim Gray, on the radio broadcast said it was the first time that the city or state had something good happen. I guess multiple LSU National Championships don’t count for anything.

I said last week Peyton can’t win the big game and he proved me right. 9 and 9 in post season doesn’t get it done and you can’t argue that. He’s a great QB but i think he gets so jacked up he looks like he’s ready to explode, he looked like the little boy getting a time out on the sideline. Didn’t it look like Lovie coaching the Colts and that cover 2’s looking good huh?

Sean Payton does have some balls on him. Poor Hank Baskett looked like a damn fool on that onside kick. I am sure he cried all the way into Kendra’s sweet panties…..

What really sucks is how the Super bowl just covers up that bs the bears dished out on Fri. afternoon. The only good thing about the whole situation is it guarantees his firing. We’ll have to suffer thru a 5-11 or worse year but maybe they’ll be fun bad with Martz going crazy or arguing with Lovie on tv. Is the Lovster finally out of friends and family or are there a few more openings left.

Those baby earphones work great. We brought our then-three-month-old son to one of the Hawks/Vancouver playoff games last year (couldn’t leave him at home because my wife was nursing and she wasn’t about to miss the game) and picked up a pair of those earphones off of Amazon. My son actually slept through the national anthem!

Without a pass rush in the second half (sound familiar), Drew Brees picked apart the colts on under routes (sound familiar)……. Cover 2 huh…..who you crappin…..

Tyrus Thomas = trade value has hit rock bottom

Drew Brees = the Manning/Brady class right now

I wonder if Jerry/Lovie were able to recognize the talent on the field.

HEArd on Mulligan and Hanley that the BEars are looking to bring in Torrie Holt… will this St. Louis north now?

I did get my chuckle from the SuperBowl Shuffel re-deaux…and of course they had to get a dam Farve commercial in there…gosh. All the Manning hype was getting old, old, old! Hardly at all did ESPN or NFL Network look at Brees, and that is fine…he is a humble man who just plays the game and doesn’t demand anymore. By the way CBS…the Obama interview was NOT necessary during your 4 1/2 hr pre-game!

So, our media thinks we’re all a bunch of moron, I suppose. Drew Breesus was sent as a matter of destinty to begin to heal the City…wow!

I didn’t know that the Betty White/Abe Vigoda ad featured the Bears offensive line. Somewhere Jay Cutler saw that and started contemplating retirement

gregg williams, the saints d coordinator, deserves some credit as well. he held the colts to 17 points! what i noticed while i was watching was that the saints were switching from 4-3, to 3-3-5, and then also a bit of 3-4. they didnt just stay in their base set and let the system work.

what a concept

SCOOPIE, the saints defense did do some things but it was the EXTREME BALL CONTROL offense of the saints that really did in the Colts. They just dinked and dunked about 7 to 10 yard passes all over the field, with th evast majority of them landing in the field of play, which kept that clock a moving. I haven’t looked at a box score but i am pretty sure the TOP was near if not over a 2:1 ratio. The colts barely had the ball from the second period on. That Onside kick, caught a team with their pants down, Freeny was still getting taped for crying out loud. Good job by the saints all around, i am eating my predictions, they need a little salt.

i am glad i prefaced that by saying i hadn’t looked at a box score because the top was almost dead even. My guess is the first quarter belonged to the colts and in the fourth, the colts had the ball more because of the int return, the colts had ball back to back possessions

yep, honestly, I cant even recall the Colts having the ball in the 2nd half, besides manning throwing that INT. and that last drive. an effective short passing game is just as good as a good running attack.

Bears won’t have, and don’t have, either. Yes, everything is back to the Bears. Now about month of sports ickiness until NCAA conference tournaments begin.

focus on the family spent appox $3 mil for their unmemorable Tebow superbowl ad. their money might have been just as well spent investing in sportswebio. at least the who made it through their halftime show without breaking any hips.

SRPING training looks to be interesting on both sides, both sides have a shot if THEY STAY HEALTHY, but neither team is deep enough to sustain success if injury bug strikes.

Now about month of sports ickiness until NCAA conference tournaments begin.

No, it’s a month of focusing on the only good team in Chicago, the Blackhawks.

Oh, wait, they’ll be off for two weeks during the Olympics. That’s some great timing there, Bettman…

well i think i know something here, remember in the matrix how the agents can jump around from avatar to avatar to accomplish their objectives? well yesterday lovie smith jumped inside the colts d coordinator and starting calling HIS PLAYS AND HIS DEFENSE the saints recognized it and took over the game.

just exploited the middle of the field

Tyrus Thomas is starting (starting? yes, starting) to get on my f-ing nerves. I already hate Vinny and GarPax, but now I’m starting to just hate players too. Gob’s Bulls’ experience has been awful this year.

i have to give dan b. credit, i think it was friday, he confessed that he asks jay z. the score’s hockey guru(not the hip hop mogul) a ton of questions about the sport so he can better understand it, that probably took a lot of guts to admit that.

anyone watching the game last night catch themselves going, CUTLER DOESN’T DO THAT, i did at least 10 times, i hope he was watching the game thinking the same thing, because those are things he CAN DO he just doesn’t do

gob, do you hate drose?

Terry & Dan B.:
I was actually listening to sister station WBBM Newsradio 780 when it was learned that the Bulls had suspended Tyrus Thomas for “conduct detrimental to the team” prior to their win Saturday vs. the Heat. Given the injury status of Joakim Noah & Taj Gibson, plus the Bulls wanting to include Thomas in any trades between now & the NBA Trade Deadline, his suspension I feel hurts whatever trade value Tyrus has. As much as head coach Vinny Del Negro and Bulls’ fans can’t stand Tyrus’ shtick anymore, I think when the deadline becomes a reality late next week, Tyrus will still be in a Bulls’ uniform. You think the Celtics want Thomas along with Kirk Hinrich for Ray Allen? Not anymore! I think you are stuck with Tyrus.

Meanwhile, as far as Super Bowl XLIV’s concerned, I’m really happy for head coach Sean Payton, owner Tom Benson, quarterback and MVP Drew Brees and the rest of the New Orleans Saints winning their first Super Bowl title in franchise history. Payton did what few coaches have been able to accomplish in controlling both the football and keeping Peyton Manning and his Indianapolis Colts’ offense off the field for a big chunk of the 2nd & 3rd quarters last night. In my opinion, the “Play of the Game” was the onside kick to start the 2nd half, guys. It was gutsy and the Saints finished that drive with the Brees to Pierre Thomas 16 yard TD pass. I thought the Saints had momentum and control from that point on.

Even with the onside kick and pick-6, I thought the most fantastic play of the game was Freeny’s sack of Drew Brees. He blew up the tackle, and pulled Brees down with one arm… all on a well documented bum wheel! Freeny might be the best player on that team, including Peyton.

Oh well. In winning the Super Bowl, the Saints conceded marketing superiority in Port-au-Prince to the Colts.

maybe the Colts needed to rest their starters a few more games or maybe just maybe they might have played better in the super bowl with MO on their side by not resting them just asking

With Katrina now COMPLETELY undone, do the Sonics move back to Seattle? Richmond? Toney Hartford? And would Brownie still have his Helluva Job?

Does TT’s contract guarantee money AND an NBA roster spot or just the cash? I hear Rockford’s breathtaking this time of year.

Lydell-

You mistook “Unbreathable” for “Breathtaking”…

the bulls dleague team is Iowa

god i know stupid ****

Breesus, Jim Gray should go away.

http://www.chicagobreakingsports.com/2010/02/brewers-to-erect-bud-selig-statue-at-miller-park.html

EAT EAT YOU JACKALLS, this should dominate a chunk of b and b time in a fun angry way

However it’s received/perceived, The Majesty of Rockford is Right There For Ya, as they say.

Whores, ugly buildings and politicians ALL become respectable when they get old. Sadly-perhaps unfairly, but rules are rules–Bud, being all three, does not qualify. This would be a waste of 2000 paperweights.

“GO!-
E-
I-U!”

I thought the game was well offiiciated, as well. If you eiliminate holding calls, or call no more than two a game, you get a better football game. It’s a meaningless penalty. If a super-athelete turns around a guy, and that player can still keep his hands on him, it’s either:
a) not impeding his progress
b) the guy is too slow for the play or

c) the guy doing the holding is just as athletic.
There is not going to be a rash of guys jumping on to players backs like rodeo bulls waving their helmets in the air.
Then? You can call it.

Iowa? OK. My dim. I’d still like to send TT to Rockford.

GARPAX. . . . .
to the Giant Pile of Salt!

The SNOW HAS ARRIVED!!!

Super Bowl commercials were about as lame as Ive ever seen. Is Danica Patrick even hot? What is this Go Daddy obsession with creating these commercials that hint at her about to have some sort of ******* affair? Is that supposed to somehow excite us, and titliate us into using their product.
Do they think its the mid 80’s when these ******* homages were actually kind of cool. Good god, talk about bad.
Of course nothing beats reality star Kendra’s hubby Hank Baskett blowing the game!
http://www.tmz.com/
for a great Kendra picture right after the game. Priceless.

The worst was Undercover C.E.O.

The commercials were better than last year; Patrick is cute. Go Daddy is taunting the FCC ever since the wardrobe malfunction.

Flynn…you gotta relax

my favorite commercial was Vizio’s commercial, it made me go, ohhhhhhh that looks cool. ain’t that what a commercial is supposed to do. how many of you actually drink bud light, i mean i can’t stand the stuff, it’s as basic and generic a beer on the market, yet their commercials are funny, but don’t inspire me to buy the product. the etrade babies were funny at first, but it’s getting old. i liked the dorito’s dog collar commercial, and the letterman show ad with leno was an omg moment. the WHO SUCKED anybody who liked that should be shot. and so should they, get put out to stud. Let’s have a real act at halftime,

SNOOP DOG

comeon, he’s old, well known, got a plethera of material, yet remains relevant and cool, and LOVES FOOTBALL, the who watched the game going, “what in bloody hell is this”

IMHO people who are inspired or moved one way or another by super bowl commercials are __________
fill in the blank

B&B should be set on fire as they suggest others should

Over 105 americans were watching the game.
Even those like my wife that don’t watch sports sat down and we enjoyed the food, game, chat, and yes, waiting to see what the advertisers came up with this year. Was not impressed overall. Guys in underwear, babies talking again, clydesdales yada yada. Liked the Betty White thing.
Its not that we are inspired or moved by the commercials.
Its just a fun retreat from the daily grind if only for a few hours.
The game as a whole was entertaining. Halftime was Ok. The light show was pretty good.
The commercials are part of the whole package.
Gives us something to talk about doesn’t it ?

The Who’s light show was pretty genuine. The problem with anthem rock isn’t the performances, it’s the fact that it’s anthem rock that’s, at best, thirty years old. Don’t get me wrong; I like the Who.
Had it been Journey up there. . . (cue sound Homer makes when Paddy and Selma visit).

Now, Santana is a gigantic stage performer. His music is much more fresh, because he may decide to have eight guys or thirty performers behind him. Taylor made for the Superbowl.
Dan was right. ZZ Top would be good.
By cracky!

The Jimmy John’s trio was funny. and Betty White.
By the way, You beat Payton Manning it’s not luck; it’s skill. He would have torn that sod up if the Saints had relied on luck.