I told you so

We all know that L.A. and Philly stay jiggy, but on the sneak, Indiana bringing heat for real. Y'all don't understand … the Colts just won the Super Bowl!\nCan you believe it? Did you ever actually think it was going to happen? Did you think that Peyton Manning could overcome that perennial "monkey" to win the big one? I sure did. And I have proof. \nOn Jan. 11, I made a lot of predictions for 2007 in my IDS column "Looking at my crystal ball." These predictions are slowly coming true, inflating my ego to new heights.\nBeing a man of my word, when I said, "if they do pull it off, I can say I predicted it and write a column the week after about how amazing I am." I wasn't lying.\nBut no one wants to read an entire column dedicated to me being amazing besides me. So I just want to say four little words that exemplify my greatness -- I told you so.\nNow that I've gotten that out of the way, let me get off my high Colt and make some comments on the game.\nFirst and foremost, I think the entire nation would have been better off watching the game on mute. Jim Nantz's and Phil Simms' commentary was so dry, I thought they might stop the rain. \nOn a similar topic, who tells those two the random statistics they spit out like its vital information for every listener to know? Do I care that the NFC team has won the coin toss the last ten years? I wish I was making this up, but the dynamic duo informed me of more useless information than Alex Trebek ... and at least Trebek pronounces everything correctly.\nNext, why did the Colts kick Devin Hester that first ball? It was clear that he is a game changing player and that the special teams would be unable to stop him. Why did they have to test it out on the first play and dig themselves a hole?\nLuckily, that is the only good thing I need to say about the Bears in this column. Their playing did enough talking.\nFinally, I'm unsure that Peyton deserved MVP of the game. I think it was a given that if the Colts were to win, he would get it, but don't you think Rextasy (Bears quarterback Rex Grossman) deserved a co-MVP? He threw just as many TD passes to the Colts as Peyton did. Sexy Rexy may be wrongfully blamed for the loss when it was an all around team effort, but he helped the Colts way more then he hurt them.\nBut enough about the game. Let's talk about the split campus full of fans.\nTo the Bears fans who talked a big game for two weeks, welcome back to Earth. Damn near every Bears fan was so out of touch with reality these past two weeks that they actually thought their team was better than the Colts when they weren't. The Bears were written off by the media for a reason. Accept it. Hug it out. Move on. There is always next year.\nAnd to all the Colts fans that need this more than any city (excluding New Orleans), embrace the victory. Wear your Super Bowl championship T-shirts all around and let the world know that the Colts are the world champs because it's about damn time.\nI plan on wearing my shirt riding around on my high Colt saying "I told you so"