Thankfully, I can now watch the Super Bowl

There was a stretch on Sunday where I was pretty sure that I would be faced with a horrible situation. What does a football fan do if he completely hates both teams in the Super Bowl? If you had asked me at the beginning of the year what the worst possible Super Bowl would be for me, I would have said Patriots/Bears. I simply hate them both.

The Bears is obvious. I’m a Packers fan. I have to hate the Bears. It’s the law.

And perhaps this is because I’m a Packers fan, but really, what’s to like about the Bears? All defense teams with lame offenses are simply not fun to root for. Rex Grossman is terrifying to watch. You’ve basically got Brian Erlacher and a really good kick returner whose name I can’t remember.

Why I hate the Patriots isn’t exactly clear even to me. But sports loyalties aren’t supposed to make sense. You’d think it’s the whole New York/Boston thing, but that’s not really it (I’m not a native New Yorker, so I don’t hate Boston though I do hate the Red Sox). I really think it goes back to when the Packers played the Patriots in the Super Bowl and I knew several seriously trash talking Patriots fans (no, I’m not talking about Rob Myers). So ever since I’ve just hated them (and I got great pleasure out of that particular Super Bowl).

So anyway, the thought of watching a Super Bowl where I’d be rooting for the field to swallow up all the players just didn’t seem palatable. OK, sure, there’s always the commercials and the game is usually a big letdown, but I need to root for someone other than space aliens to incinerate the field.

So, go Colts. And hopefully the commercials will be good too…