Now that the Super Bowl is history, we should look back to when the Chicago Bears played the New Orleans Saints for the conference championship. I don’t believe the best team won. If Saints’ head coach Sean Payton had brought his team to Chicago early, and allowed them to get used the severe change in weather (see article below), the Saints would have won and it would have been they who played in the Super Bowl rather than Chicago. But be that as it may, the game was not a blowout because the rain neutralized the effectiveness of one team over the other and leveled the playing field. Rain affects a passing team more than it affects a running team. Had it not rained, Peyton Manning would have had an even more successful day and the score would have been a lopsided blowout. Maybe it’s time for the NFL to think about having future Super Bowls played exclusively in domed stadiums?

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