Who (Saw) Dat?

I saw a fair array of predictions about how last night's Super Bowl would turn out. But I didn't see any prediction that looked like that!

Better than half of the prognotications I saw or heard assumed a Colts' win. Clearly they were the 'favorite.'

Also, a lot of the predictions featured scores like the Saints' 31 points. Sometimes 31-ish was the winning score. Often it was the losing score!

According to those who follow and bet this sort of thing, this Super Bowl had the highest over-under for total final score in Super Bowl history. But few people were predicting a total of just 48 points.

And, most significantly of all, no one was envisioning a mere 17 points from the Indianapolis Colts.

Who saw dat coming?

In the days leading up to last night's game, with so many folks expecting a Colts' win, there was a lot of conversation about Peyton Manning's spot in the pantheon of all-time NFL QB greats. Once he gets his second ring, can we call him the greatest ever? That conversation was actually being had on TV and radio!

Instead, one wonders now if the old Peyton Manning conversation will be revived... The one about him and "the big game."

It hounded him in college, when he couldn't get Tennessee past Florida. And it hung over the first number of years of his NFL career. Then, three years ago, when the Colts won it all, he seemed to get that monkey off his back. He had finally won the big game -- although, honestly, he did not play particularly well in that Super Bowl win.

And then came yesterday. The Colts were favored. The sports writers and commentators were ready to chisel his face into football's Mt. Rushmore.

Perhaps before we begin entertaining whether he is the greatest NFL QB of all time, someone should settle whether he is even the greatest Colts QB of all time. Unitas won more big games. But, of course, that was a long, long time ago. And who saw dat?