as Pats fans, the Bears MUST win
 

To save the Pats fans from more suffering, the Bears MUST win the Super Bowl.

If the Bears win, then the Colts historic comeback against the Patriots becomes less significant.

Think about it. If the Patriots DID NOT win the Super Bowl in 2001, then the whole tuck rule thing becomes less significant. Sure, the Raiders would care about it, but it would become far less signficant to the rest of the country. That was one of the defining moments of their season, and it has become forever glorified because the Pats went on to win the Super Bowl.

It's like the Red Sox in 2004. Their historic three games down comeback against the Yankees would have been as glorified if they had not won the World Series.

If Peyton Manning wins the Super Bowl, then the Colts defining game against the Patriots will be forever glorified to an ultimate degree. We will be seeing clips of that game on the NFL Network all the time. As Patriots fans we must at least hope that Manning loses and thus the Patriots choke becomes far less significant. In 2003, if the Yankees had won the World Series after Grady Little's choke, it would have been pouring salt in an open wound.

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I'm pretty certain that the Colts' win will be like the 94 49ers win. They beat Dallas, won their Super Bowl, and then Dallas came right back the next season and won. Only we're Dallas, and we'll be around for longer than next year.

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IMO the only way to make the Colts go away is if they win the SB. Then comes the inevitable fall from grace.... think Baltimore, Pittsburgh or Tampa Bay is winning the SB anytime soon? Even if NE doesn't win another one at least they had a good run over a number of seasons.

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No way the Bears win this Sunday. All I can see is the Colts getting a nice lead and then playactioning the Bears to death. The more I think about it the more I see a blowout.

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I'd rather they linger around as a perpetual loser than win and go away.

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I'll be rooting for the Bears but they'll probably lose. Let's face it, a lot of people hate the Patriots as much as we hate the Colts. They have to put up with our winning as much as we have to put up with the stupid Colts. We're stuck with having to suck it up and hoping not to lose in the playoffs next year.

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The Colts will be more pumped for this game than any other - will they be over pumped? Perhaps and that can hurt a team, along with the pressure they must be feeling, but I just don't think its going to happen - Colts in a cake walk. The Bears should be loose with nothing to lose going into the game.

Let's not forget the Patriots were considered as much an underdog as Chicago is right now if not more when the Rams were already calling themselves a dynasty (because they had one SB under their belt!) and we all know how that turned out.

I've already accepted the high likely hood that Peyton and the Colts are getting the monkey off their back. Something of the rivalry will be lost when that happens - its fun watching them choke every year! And if it happens on Sunday it will be especially entertaining!

And while I don't want to beat a dead horse, given the fact that one colt was already euthanized this week there's always the possibility it could happen again!

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The Bears are Pats fans?

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The fact that the Colts won the AFC title game makes it a BETTER rivalry now. The Jets/Pats rivalry was in hiding until NY won in November.

Even if the Colts win the SB, they will take an unceremonious exit in the playoffs and we'll all say "same ol' Manning, same ol' Colts". This season is an aberration for them.

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I think the NFL needs to get this out of it's system. If not we'll see another year of lop-sided officiating (see playoffs Colts v. Steelers 2005, playoffs Colts v. Patriots 2006). Hopefully, this will satisfy the NFL and quiet Polian and Manning will get his one and only SB ring and the media can officially anoint him the best QB ever. Then the less great Brady and the rest of the Patriot team can get on with winning their 4th Super Bowl.