Monthly Archives: February 2007

Tomorrow is Super Bowl 41 with the Indianapolis Colts vs the Chicago Bears and I can not even begin to tell how much I want the Colts to win. Growing up in Indiana with the local sports you get use to things like 13 losing years in a row for Purdue Football, hiring one bad/horrible coach after another. Getting all American talent, but having a coach so petty he will bench them to “make a point” and then black list them so their football playing days are over because someone believed a lying scum bag coach.

Purdue men’s basketball getting the #1 seed in the NCAA tourney and beating the #16 seed team by 1 fucking point on a last second shot, (closest 1 vs 16 in HISTORY) and never getting past the elite 8 (was in the Final 4 before I followed sports when I was 7 and they made the Finals before I was born)

Indiana Pacers were pretty much a playoff lock the entire time Reggie Miller was playing for them, I think they missed 2 years of his 17 year career, and made the Eastern Conference finals 5 of 7 years but just one appearance in the NBA finals where we lost to the Lakers 4-2)

Cub fans can relate to us as the official motto for Indiana Sports fans has always been “there is always next year”. Back in 1994 Colts vs Steelers in the AFC Championship Colts down 4 and Jim Harbaugh throws a hail mary that was caught, but dropped for what would have been the game winning TD.

Last year Colts vs Steelers and Steelers up 3 and on the 5 yard line when Bettis fumbles (that NEVER happens) and Colts take the ball and run it back 62 yards and with 3 seconds he is tackled by the QB in a open field, but we are in FG range and have THE most accurate kicker in NFL history…. Who missed it wide wide wide right. There was no doubt in my mind he was going to miss; I just KNEW he would miss. Still, I was crushed when he missed and the Steelers went on to win the Super Bowl.

THAT is what its like to be a sports fan in Indiana.

We can get all the talent in the world and something, somehow, will go wrong and we will lose. Game 7 1998 Eastern Conference Finals, Pacers vs the Bulls, Bulls down 11 with 3 mins left and win the game and their 6th and final NBA title.

I can go on and on but I think you get the point. So I am nervous as hell, I really think we will win, but I just know the luck I have and the luck Indiana sports have.

We wanted to go to Buffalo NY to a friend’s house, but my foot stopped us from going. He has a garage that has been converted into a bar and it is a VERY nice bar, big HD TVs all over, real wood bar, more booze then you can imagine and packed full of people. The only bad things are most people are smokers and its Buffalo NY so it’s fucking COLD. We went 2 years ago and had a blast, it was in the mid 40s the 3-4 days we was there and the day we left they got drilled with cold and snow, so the timing for us was perfect. So there is always next year which we plan to make.

Tomorrow we have no big plans, again thanks to my foot, so Pauline and I will be watching the pre game which starts at noon and counting down the 6+ hours to kick off, we will be wearing our Colts jerseys and trying to settle down for the game, I’m sure I will toke some meds so I can be somewhat at ease before kickoff and I hope I can breath at least once or twice before the game is over.

4 hours is a long time with out breathing.