ringless no more

so, the colts won the superbowl last night, thank goodness. nothing against the bears, in fact, had they been playing the pats, i would have rooted for them to kill brady's bunch. but, in the end, peyton manning and, more importantly, coach tony dungy, were able to walk away with the win. for manning, it was the culmination of a career marked by too many near misses. as for dungy, i have rarely seen a coach handle himself with as much as grace and class as he has. but how much fun was the game? the rain was just ridiculous, it made the entire game a joke - like 4 fumble turnovers, grossman couldn't keep the ball and runners just slipping everywhere...

anyways, i came across this little passage in a sportswriter's article. i just thought it added a bit of interesting info to the whole story:

"Two and a half hours before the Super Bowl kickoff, when the stadium was practically empty and neither team had yet come out to warm up, one solitary figure stood near the end zone, firing touchdown passes to a couple of his receivers who had joined him to play catch.

The man was dressed in all gray, with no jersey or helmet. He stood in an imaginary pocket. Sometimes he rolled out. He lofted passes to the corners. He hit receivers cutting across the middle.

You had to look twice to make sure who it was. The man taking the extra work turned out to be the one person in the game who didn't really need it.

It was Peyton Manning."