This is not Detroit, man, this is the Super Bowl!

I watched both the Jets-Colts and Vikings-Saints game on Sunday. The Jets made it close in the first half, until Manning decided to step up and stop playing games with the Jets D line. The more exciting and excruciatingly painful game was the Vikings-Saints.

The Viks had every opportunity to win that game as a team with 4 turnovers going driving down the field the last few minutes of the 4th quarter, and a tied score on the field – the miracle was about to happen. Even the stupid 12 man penalty was forgotten when a field goal for the win was looking to be in reach. When Farve stepped up to throw what might be his last pass of his career:

Paul Allen of KFAN Radio in Minneapolis-St. Paul said it best, Brett could have taken a knee or ran up the field a few yards but did not need to force the throw. Toni Monkovic of NY Times notes the irony of both the blown play and one of the greatest of the season, held by Bret Farve this season.

With the 2010 game being the first Saints Superbowl, I’m on the side of Drew Brees to take the Gold and Black to the title.

Injury of the Season!!!

“T-Rac” the Tennessee Titans’ raccoon-like mascot, rolled over the rookie Saints quarterback Adrian McPherson at the end of the half as he was walking back from the locker to start the 3rd quarter. The mascot rides a a modified golf cart with a bucket seat (pictured).

“He got run over by the mascot,” coach Sean Payton said. “I don’t know what to do. We’ve got to play the Titans. The mascots and all the other stuff going on, it’s crazy.”

“That’s an issue,” Brees said. “They definitely should do something about that. I mean, to get hit by a golf cart on the field by the mascot. I can’t think of anything dumber than that.”

This has got to be the worst injury of the year and the season hasn’t even started…