Prufrock wrote:The betting line has moved slightly:  Indy's -5.5 to win.

Martin

I would still take the Colts.

The most interesting teams this year were in the NFC, and they all knocked each other off, leaving the Saints as feel-good Super Bowl losers.

The AFC sort of imploded, with the Colts as highly disappointing winners after their late season lack-of-any-football-guts moves.  There was virtually no interest to any of the races in the AFC.

The Chargers did what the Chargers do...charge and then die in the playoffs for no apparent reason.   I think it is directly related to the incredibly stupid lightning bolt logos.  A charger is a horse.  Very bad football karma.

As a resident of the Pacific Northwest, I know well what bad uniforms can do to destroy a team.  A seahawk is a pirate.  Snot green is a color for skateboarding (and possibly paintball), not football.

It's like the Bengals.  The kitty kat stripes on the helmet.  Very cute but not football.  Perpetual playoff humiliation ensues.

One bright spot to the playoffs....I had another good hardy har har laugh at the Eagles.

Being a Cowboys fan, I am now immune to playoff pain.  Yes, the Cowboys have won it five times.  But, do you realize how many times we Cowboys fans have plunged in flames from the playoff heights?  There was a period where the Cowboys went to the playoffs every year for 20+ years.  That was nice, but it also meant a metric buttload of playoff losses.

What was I talking about?  

FormCritic wrote:As a resident of the Pacific Northwest, I know well what bad uniforms can do to destroy a team.  A seahawk is a pirate.  Snot green is a color for skateboarding (and possibly paintball), not football.

It's like the Bengals.  The kitty kat stripes on the helmet.  Very cute but not football.  Perpetual playoff humiliation ensues.

As bad as you might think the Seahawks and Bengals uniforms/helmets are, these were so much worse:

Denver Broncos (early 60's)


New England Patriots


Buffalo Bills


And the hideously awful Tampa Bay Bucs


WTF were they thinking in Tampa?  I could understand if they were the Miami Beach Bucs.  

Same with the Packers, can't screw up a 'G'
Though the Browns have it easiest.

ShaneG.

Note that the Broncos did not have success until they altered their helmets and uniforms.  Super Bowl loss after Super Bowl loss, even with John Elway...the greatest quarterback athlete the NFL has seen...the Broncos were held back time and again by their uniforms.

Same thing for the Buccaneers.  Stinkola...until the good karma of cool new colors and removal of the homoerotic helmet logo.  That, and Tony Dungy.

Patriots in the old gear....one blowout Super Bowl loss.  Patriots in their new gear...magic!

Bills in their buffalo helmet days....sucktastic with the exception of O.J. Simpson.  They change their uniforms and...bam!  Four Super Bowl losses, yes, but that had a lot to do with the dominance of the NFC East and  San Francisco.  One missed field goal and, like, eight hundred fumbles kept the Bills from winning it all in their new uniforms.

Remember the Houston Oilers?  Dumb name.  Dumb logo.  Horrible uniforms.  Even being in Texas could not help a team so pathetic.  They move out of the state, change their name and fix the helmets...Super Bowl appearance...and they lose by one yard.  If they could fix the dumb-looking sword on their helmets they'd be a team to fear.

Now, compare that to the incredibly cool uniform colors and logos of the Cowboys, Forty-Niners and Steelers.  The thing is...football uniforms are designed and approved by human brains.  Human brains able to tell what a football uniform is supposed to look like tend to also know what a football team is supposed to look and play like.  

Brains that approve uniforms like the Bengals or the Seahawks also tend to be brains that just do not know how to play power football.  Effeminate uniform/effeminate football team.

The Raiders would be a wild-card in this equation because they were once led by a great football brain that has been dimmed by time.

And, finally, the long-term frustration of Chicago Bears fans can be directly traced to their team colors.  Black and orange?  Fine.  Very dark blue and burnt orange?  What?  No wonder the Bears can't play offense.  Update the uniforms...the 1940's are long gone, Chicago owners!

Don't forget Cincinnati going from the totally lame "Bengals" to the stripes in (I think) 82. Superbowl runner-ups in one of the most exciting games ever.

Ekim Toor wrote:Don't forget Cincinnati going from the totally lame "Bengals" to the stripes in (I think) 82. Superbowl runner-ups in one of the most exciting games ever.

I guess it was exciting.  I was surprised that the Bengals were still in it after one quarter.  The ending seemed inevitable to me.

Based on my new football numbers for the Superbowl   , I would like to revise my prediction on the outcome of the game:

- Final Score, Colts 38, New Orleans 36  [Still taking the over]

New Orleans 38 Indianapolis 24