by Dana Greene

I gotta be honest with you. I could care less about Super Bowl XLI. First of all, there aren't enough X's in it. A Super Bowl should have at least two, preferably three X's to get me really revved up. But seriously, both of these teams do nothing for me. The Bears have to be one of the most boring and least interesting teams in recent Super Bowl history. I'm supposed to get excited about Rex Grossman, Thomas Jones, Bernard Berrian and Mushim Muhammed? Brian Urlacher is a beast, but the most prolific player on this team may be Robbie Gould...the kicker!

As for the Colts, yes they are explosive, they can score 80 points, and their defense is bad enough to make even Grossman look good. But I just can't root for Peyton Manning. This guy is the most overexposed, yet least charismatic spokesman the NFL has ever had. Every time Manning's mug shows up on TV, which is about every 4 or 5 minutes on ESPN and the NFL Network, I reach for my remote. Just his face, his twang, his goody-goody gosh golly gee willackers look about him makes me sick. Maybe it's because Manning is going to eventually break all of my beloved Dan Marino's records, but I just can't stand this guy.

Yes, it is historically significant that finally, not one but two African-American coaches made it to the big game, but come on...can Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith be any less engaging? The over/under on laughs this week from both coaches combined was 2 this week. I took the under.

There just isn't any spice to this game, nothing to grip my attention and get behind one of the teams. That doesn't mean I'm not going to watch every second of it. I mean, it is the Super Bowl. But they still can't make me care about it.