Leave it to Matt to write the post I wanted to write again. 
However, I do have some things to add:
an underlying theme of this Super Bowl win for the Colts has to be ‘vindication’ for a lot of people. Everyone said that Tony Dungy was “The guy who can get you close”. No more.
Peyton Manning was “the best QB to never win a Super Bowl.” or “The guy who can’t win a big game”. No more.
Bill Polian built Super Bowl participants, but not Super Bowl champions. No more.
There are a couple other raps on the Colts have been disproved as well, like the idea that they’re just a “dome team” that can’t win in bad weather, or are a “finesse” team that can’t play physically. Pretty much all the common knocks against this team, its players, and its coaches have been sent to the scrap heap in dramatic fashion. Every. Single. One.
I know they’ll be a desire here to seek out every media personality who’ll be making excuses and trying to devalue the team’s championship and blast them to get attention. We’re already hearing crap like “the Colts didn’t win, the Bears lost” (as Jason pointed out) and “does Manning have to win two”? Apparently nothing he does will ever be enough for some people. (As an aside, my hat goes off to Jim Rome, who’s been defending the Colts and Manning from this nonsense both yesterday and today) But, as I heard a local talk radio host point out on my way home from work yesterday, the city of Indianapolis should ignore all that. We know the ghosts have been put to rest, the monkeys have been thrown off the backs, or INSERT-CLICHE-HERE has come to an end. Indianapolis has a championship, and there’s no one who can take that away. It’s funny that Mike should have mentioned the Royals’ 1985 World Series so recently, because Kansas City and Indianapolis are somewhat similar cities, and the situation analogous. On Sunday Mike openly wondered if this city will hold on to the Colts’ Super Bowl win the way KC holds on to the Royals’ championship. I suspect so. Even if the Colts manage to repeat, there’s something special about the first.
But now football season has come to and end, my apartment has been through a post-party cleaning, I’ve got enough leftover food to last me until March Madness, and thus CWAMB’s time as “Colts Homer Blog” comes to an end as well. Be sure to tune back in come August, where we’ll no doubt have lots of coverage of the Colts’ championship defense, including Matt and I’s reports of each home game from the RCA Dome in its final season. But that doesn’t mean the posting here stops in the meantime. We’ve got the aforementioned March Madness, baseball season, and three types of auto racing all just around the corner. We’ve got to find out who the Pacers will lose to in the second round of the NBA playoffs, as well as find out if those same playoffs will be over before the World Series. Stay tuned for my IRL season preview before the first race in Homestead, Florida on March 24th, and much, much more.