The Super Bowl: A Game of Side Shows
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by user LastRow
Isn’t so nice the Indianapolis Colts decided to get on a plane to head to South Florida? Obviously they must know a little more than we do about their city...Why it must be a whole hell of a lot better than Miami causing them to stay an extra day in early February. For the past 48 hours we’ve heard about the different opinions everyone seems to be voicing about the Bears landing in Miami a day earlier than the Colts...And you know come late Sunday night, whoever wins, this question will be raised again.
It’s a given that Miami is known for the nightlife and after staging the Super Bowl the last two years in Detroit and Jacksonville, everyone in their mother is looking forward to this years game in Miami. That’s why the world is transcending to Miami...For a game. Unfortunately, the big game has, well frankly become secondary as to what goes on during Super Bowl week. Yes, the Super Bowl is still the biggest sporting event in the world, but it’s has gone from that to the biggest party week of the year too. Thus, causing the respective players on the two respective teams to at times fall victim to making bad choices. While this may be true this week every year, it only becomes magnified 100 times greater given the city of Miami and everything it stands for. And yes, speaking from experience, when one goes down there to experience things, well things are like no other. One can easily lose all sense of reality...And that’s when the Super Bowl isn’t going on
Now there’s not a single person out there that hasn’t dreamed of playing on Super Sunday. I don’t care if you ride on the back of a garbage truck for a living or to the ones that play in the NFL. Many dream of this....A few select come true For the Bears and Colts, in the 2006-07 season their dreams have come true. So why on earth would a player from one of the two teams want to jeopardize their dreams of becoming a Super Bowl champion with some bad decisions outside the realm of their profession? What, is Tigger the undercover cop posing as a prostitute worth more then being a Super Bowl champion? Is breaking curfew to explore this party city worth more then hoisting the Vince Lombardi trophy? By choosing to exercise in these activities along with a shit load of others instead of concentrating is nothing more than being selfish and for all intensive purposes not really being a true professional...By showing you have chosen to put yourself ahead of the team, ahead of your family. When as we all know, it was the “team” mentality that got you to this point.
Look, I’m not saying don’t enjoy everything...That would be crazy Why, the Colts and Bears have earned to soak as much as they can in. Although with the Colts coming in a day later, for what? Okay, the distractions of Miami. However, if Tony Dungy has to babysit his team like that and try to shelter away some of the hubbub, then what kind of statement is that to his team? It’s a business trip yes, but it’s not like we haven’t heard that in the previous Super Bowls. If shits going to go down, it’s going to go down period whether it’s during the course of the week or on gameday when somebody can’t find their helmet. If Tank Johnson is going to go Barrett Robbins and hold everybody in the Bears team hotel hostage because he has smuggled some of his weapons of mass destruction into his room and now barricading himself in there...That’s going to happen Nobody can stop it from happening Or what if Peyton Manning accidentally cuts off his thumb by cutting his meat...Can’t stop that either
While Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith might be best of friends...Sharing similar coaching styles and beliefs which has gotten them to Miami, making all the rights calls throughout the season, one thing they can’t control and have no idea what’s going to happen is everything leading up to Sunday. For them, this is out of their hands and in the hands of their players It’s time for them to make the calls over this long week and really see exactly what kind of professionals they truly are
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