The Colts have beaten the Bears in the Super Bowl, so I must come out and say this, without humility: I correctly predicted this... way back in the pre-season. Yes, no kidding, I predicted the Colts to beat the Bears in the Super Bowl.

Okay, so picking the Colts to win was not exactly a stroke of genius. And the Bears had a very good year last year. But according to Gregg Easterbrook of ESPN (whose column I read religiously), people in the media correctly predicting the Super Bowl winner and loser (or anything in the NFL for that matter) have been few and far between. Check out his column on bad predictions here:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/070213

As for my seemingly amazing prediction, unfortunately I don't have any proof for any doubters out there (what, you won't just take my word for it?)

The only thing I can offer is this. For my day job at Sportsnet.ca, I helped to create division-by-division previews in the pre-season, which also included predictions. My co-worker and I each did predictions (though I only did mine because I didn't realize he had done his, and since he did his first, we went with his). They can be found here:

http://www2.sportsnet.ca/football/nfl/division_previews.php

For the most part, I agreed with his. I think pretty much the only difference was that I had the Bears in the Super Bowl while he had the Panthers (which wasn't a bad prediction at all, I considered them, but I just thought that it was going to be the Bears year this time).

Maybe next time around, we'll have side-by-side predictions with bylines - I wasn't the big "columnist" then that I am now - check out my blog for the site:

http://www2.sportsnet.ca/blogs/NFL_Fours/2007/02/05/super_bowl_wrap/

And yes, I went a little against the tide on Rex Grossman. But he did make a bad throw at a bad time.

By the way, I was also the top prognosticator in the weekly picks (against the spread) section on our website:

http://www2.sportsnet.ca/football/nfl/picks/2006/21

For anyone wondering I wasn't the one who picked the Super Bowl game itself, it was because of a deal with Sudbury Todd that whoever correctly picked the Championship game by the better margin would get to pick the Super Bowl. We were both right (even though more people were picking the Saints and Patriots), but his margin was greater. For the record, I would have picked the Colts to win by 7.

Okay enough self-promotion. Wait, this is my blog. What else should it be for?