So how good a story is this year’s Super Bowl?
It’s always a good story in football’s biggest game. But this year’s edition may be lacking the huge storyline.
Yes, you have the New Orleans Saints, fighting back five years after their city was ravaged by Hurricane Katrina to get to their first Super Bowl. They’ll face the Indianapolis Colts and Peyton Manning, son of former Saints’ favorite son Archie.
Decent story. But some of the excitement level died when Brett Favre and the Vikings were unable to get to the big game. Not to mention it took running back Adrian Peterson of OU fame out of the equation.
These two teams were the league’s best most of the season, before each had some setbacks in the final month, some self-inflicted by resting starters before the playoffs began.
And this game may have been more interesting with the Vikings there, as they had the better of the Saints much of the day in the NFC Championship, only to see turnovers — including a rash of fumbles by Peterson — cost them.
It looks like the Colts are even better than the four-point favorites they’ve been established as. One thing is for sure, we’ve got two weeks to hear all the hype from every possible angle. Maybe that good story will be found after all.