A LOT OF NFL FOR ME THIS PAST SUNDAY

It's unusual that I spend so much time watching playoff football when the Rams are not playing. But with some rotten weather for the past weeks in Scottsdale, I've become a football junkie.

Not my wife who wondered outloud why I was watching the NFC Championship Game. You see, I'd shared with her that I liked the Bears coach somewhat, but had trouble forgiving him for going to the Cover 2 defense in the Super Bowl the Rams lost. (98% of all coaches would have done the same thing.) That I didn't like the cities of Chicago or New Orleans. That I didn't like the fact that the Saints coach was a replacement (scab) player, although I'm not crazy about unions either. So whom did I root for? Lovie and the Bears. They weren't the Bears of Jim McMahan, a player that fully disgusted me.

The AFC game was a different story. I wanted the Colts to win so bad. I simply cannot stand the Patriots of Brady and Belichek. It all started with the Rams Super Bowl loss to those scoundrels who held, interferred, got away with murder in the game while Mike Martz went manic and wouldn't give the ball to Marshall. It was also probably the only Super Bowl I'll ever be fortunate enough to attend. So my belly still burns from that. And to top it off, they've won two more since that one. AAUUHH, or something like that Charlie Brown used to say.

So to say the least I was very pleaded to see the Patsies lose, although I would trade another Super Bowl title or two to them for the one they took from the Rams. And for the Super Bowl--no contest: GO COLTS!!