When we talk about professional athletes and coaches why do the media always say black, white, Hispanic or other races? Two teams made the Super Bowl for the first time in at least 20 years and the first statement made was we have our first black coaches in the Super Bowl history. The second was we will have a black coach win the Super Bowl for the first time in NFL history. Well I don’t believe we need that to be the emphasis on the Super Bowl, both teams the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears have enough characters on the field to make up news worthy of reporting. By the way its not a bad thing at all that they are mentioning that their will be first time black coaches making Super Bowl appearances, its just it shouldn’t be top story.
In the NBA Championship we didn’t here Avery Johnson of the Dallas Mavericks being the top story of being the first black coach to make the finals. In MLB we didn’t hear Dusty Baker being the first black coach to make the World Series. So why is it that in football it is the first story? On the other hand I am excited to see that this will be the last time we will ever have to hear this again since we are now going to have an African American coach winning a Major Sporting Championship. In the NFL you can count on one hand how many NFL head coaches that are black, but you can’t count how many NFL players are  black in the NFL without using at least 20 friends hands. So will race always be a subject in major Sports?

There are a bunch of questions going into the championship games this weekend. Can Peyton finally beat the NE Patriots at home? Will Rex Grossman of the Chicago Bears turnover the ball to cause his team to lose? Can the Patriots run the ball against the Colts defense? Will the NE Saints make rookie mistakes in the biggest game in the history of the team? All these questions will have some type of outcome on the game, and the team that gets it right reward will be the Super Bowl.

If Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts is ever going to win this game against the Patriots it will be this weekend. He finally has them at home, and he has had terrible games in the playoffs so far so he is due for a good game. Everyone knows that Rex is going to be the one who decides this divisional game, if he plays good and doesn’t turnover the ball his defense will be able to shut down the Saints. The Patriots have come out last week and threw the ball 40 times against the San Diego Chargers, if they want to win this game they will need to run the ball.  The Colts defense has been able to stop the run in the playoffs so far, so we will see if they can make it three. This will be the first time the Saints have ever been in a game this big, and with a rookie coach, rookie players, and cold weather all being determining problems lets see what they do.

The playoffs are finally here, 12 teams with the best record get to go on to make it to the Super Bowl. The 1st weekend if the wildcard games and two teams everyone expected to make the Super Bowl are both in the wild card games: Indianapolis Colts and Seattle Seahawks. Well this weekend, for the first time in awhile we have all 8 division winners in the final 4 games. Usually you get a team that doesn’t win its division but had a good team make it to the final eight or even the division championship game.
Who should we expect in the division championship games for both leagues? We have the Indianapolis Colts versus Baltimore Ravens and New England Patriots versus San Diego Chargers in the tough AFC playoffs, which by the way is the division the Super Bowl champs will come from.  These 4 teams have been in the top 8 teams throughout the season, and all have the right players and coaches to go all the way to the Super Bowl. I expect to see the Baltimore Ravens vs. San Diego Chargers for the division championship.  In the other division we have the Seattle Seahawks versus Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles versus New Orleans Saints in the NFC bracket, the difference about this conference it is there for the taking by any one of these four teams.  The NFC division the whole year has had only one team in the top eight teams throughout the season in the Bears, but they lost both games to the AFC teams and also can be beat. I’m looking for a division championship game between the Chicago Bears and Philadelphia Eagles with the winner of this game losing in the Super Bowl.

When you are a little kid you always grow up wanting to be someone, when it comes to coaching you want to be in the Professional ranks well that is no more the big job.  College coaches for the last decade always wanted to be in the NFL, now they are getting paid good to stay in the college game.  Lets us look at examples in the last two weeks. Nick Saban once of the Miami Dolphins just took a job in Alabama after two years in the NFL. He received $32 million for eight years guaranteed. Another coach from Louisville after renewing his contract for ten years with the school left to go coach in the NFL for $24 million the next season. No loyalty in coaching these days, they are just like the players they go for the money.
Well a lot of the college coaches now realize how much control they have in the college game that they don’t have in the pros.  They can set up all the rules in college because the kids have to be there, but in the pro’s most players are making as much or more money than they are.  So coaches are using this leverage to stay in the college game and getting more money while doing it. The college from Louisville has to pay the school back $1million for not completing his contract. Well since he has 24 million I guess he won’t miss a million.