AND THE WINNER IS...

To continue my Super Bowl preview/review/predictions, I look at three AFC teams today. Two could win it all. In fact I think one of the two will.

Yesterday, I dismissed all NFC teams except Seattle. There's really no use to talk about them because they will be fodder by Super Bowl Sunday. I examined the Steelers, Bengals, and Massachuetts patsies and gave the first and last (in many ways) a chance to reach the big game.

That leaves the jacksonville jaguars, how I don't know, but somehow they made the playoffs with a variety of unknowns. Fitting though, because that's how they came into the league instead of the St. Louis Stallions. I doubt that even MVRL championship owner could name more than 5 players and their coach. That's how anonymous they are. And, with that, loyal reader(s), I move on.

I really like the Broncos. I'm wondering when the rest of the league will wise up and realize that even cats like Avion, or is it Evian Cason can run like the dickens when the O Line opens up the holes. With the exception of trading for Marshall Faulk, the single best move the Rams made was to trade up and draft Orlando Pace at number one. Shanahan knows this and has an unbelievable offensive line that controls the line of scrimmage. But I can't see them winning with Jake at the helm. He's good. A lot better than people thought, and like so many others excels when given time. But I just don't see them in the big game.

That leaves us with the Horseshoe. And there's the Super Bowl 40 champion. No big upset, no big surprise. If they needed a rallying cause, they unfortunately got it with Coach Dungy's loss of his son. Without a doubt, the coach would trade the championship for one more time with his son. But he's had enough loss for the year, for a lifetime, and the Colts will continue to dominate on both sides of the ball.

So there you have it--there's really no reason to watch hours of games, scour the newspapers and web sites. There'll be a huge celebration in Indy, upset wet fans in C-attle, and back to the drawing boards for all the rest.

Bring on March Madness and the baseball season before the Phoenix Suns are crowned NBA Champions in late May or early June. (Wow--two predicted champs in one blog!)