Football fans rejoice. This year’s Super Bowl between the Colts and Saints is truly a dream matchup that should give us an epic game. Both teams were so good this season that they seemed destined to meet for a championship. With two teams that are so evenly matched, it’s the kind of game that you just can’t predict no matter how hard you try.

For real fans, this great unknown creates all the hype we need. It’s about watching Peyton Manning and Drew Brees, two of the best quarterbacks in the league, going all out for the biggest prize in sports and not knowing how it will end.

More than ever though, the Super Bowl is becoming a circus designed to appeal to people who wouldn’t watch sports in the first place. I can’t stand how the actual game is sandwiched between entertainment that has nothing to do with football.

If you need obnoxious commercials or an awesome halftime performance to appreciate an awesome game like this, you must be watching the wrong show. You can laugh at talking babies and rock out to The Who, but the unscripted world of sports is the best entertainment there is. It’s the only true reality television.

Celebrities can pretend to be football experts and pick the team with better uniforms. Advertisers can show all the stupid football-themed commercials they want. But everyone knows what it’s all about.

Like Nelly once said: “It must be the money.” 

It’s fine for the NFL, which makes billions of dollars. But the business side of sports should never overshadow a great game, especially one like this. We know the Colts and Saints are sure to put on an amazing show. The question is what will you be talking about the next day? The best commercials or the game’s most exciting play?

Will you witness weak humor or gridiron greatness? I’m confident the choice will be obvious. It’s all up to you.

Go Saints!