It pains me to say this, but the Bears were extremely lucky to be as close as they were. They hung around all game when the Colts seemed to march down the field on them over and over. I keep looking for that one lucky break that would push them in the lead after they lost it. If I just looked at the yardage and time of possession differences without knowing what the score was I would almost expect them to be loosing by 25+ points with the game out of hand a little after halftime. Grossman didn't play well. In fact the second to the last drive by the Bears where I knew he had to take chances while he was playing bad already I turned to my dad and told him I almost feel like there's an 80% chance (even though it was just a guess) he throws and interception on this drive and he did a couple of plays later. The Bears defense didn't look good as the game went on, Peyton made a lot of throws and even worse they ran on them well, even when they should have expected it. It rained like it though it might, but it still didn't help the Bears like it seemed like it should. The Bears only good drives seemed to be when the Colts where already playing semi-prevent defense near the end.
I’m sort of happy for Peyton just so people can’t use the he choked or wasn’t clutch arguments. The nail wasn’t quite put in the coffin about the who’s the better quarterback between Brady and Manning, but the argument that Brady was better because he won superbowls just took a serious hit today.
On the other hand Peyton just beet the Bears in the Superbowl so I have to contemplate not liking him for the rest of his career in the same way I can’t totally like Brett Farve because he beat us all those times. :1orglaugh