This isn't about me. It's about you. 

The Super Bowl has been over less than 24 hours and it's been viewed and reviewed from every angle possible. There are no orginal thoughts left to "wow" you with. All that matters, is what we believe.

I still think Peyton Manning is a great quarterback. The greatest?  I think another Super Bowl win would have elevated him to the status reserved for guys like Montana and Bradshaw.

Four years ago, we were talking about Peyton Mannining's apparent inability at winning The Big Game. Now, the discussion has shifted to Manning's place in NFL history.

Some Manning fans believe another win will cement his status as the greatest quarterback to play the game.

Others have guided their teams to more Super Bowl wins. Terry Bradshaw set the gold standard with four. Joe Montana, Bart Starr, Tom Brady and Troy Aikman have multiple wins.

I still think sports is the best thing on television. 

News, I am not so sure of.

I was positioned next to a television for dinner at a casual restaurant tonight. CNN Headline News devoted significant time to the following stories:

*Obese lady sentenced after smothering lover.

*Mom makes kid kill hampster.

When I see stuff like that on telvision, I am reminded of the controversial, but on-target comment made by former F.C.C Chairman Newton Minow.

I felt like I was in the middle of a Samuel Beckett play.

Without a script.

The call came shortly after 8 p.m.. Lane Kiffin would make a statement on his sudden departure from Tennessee. The catch-- I was told no cameras were allowed. I am no rube. I've been doing this a long time. I immediately told my photograher to bring his camera-- we'd work out the details later.

It wasn't going to last long. I felt it the day he was hired. And I wondered about it again as I was walking off the field at the Georgia Dome on New Year's Eve.

Mike Hamilton won the press conference when he hired Lane Kiffin in December 2008. But the hire has now backfired miserably. The coach who made headlines for Tennessee football has made another-- and this time it comes at Tennessee's expense.

Mark McGwire is off the suspect list. We can now refer to him as an admitted steroid user; a guy who tarnished baseball by using performance enhancing drugs; a guy who finally fessed-up during an emotional, nationally televised interview on the MLB Network. 

Yes, McGwire could hit home runs without the juice. He was the American League Rookie of the Year in 1987-- after he hit 49.

It didn't take a great leap in logic to know Tyler Smith's days as a Tennessee basketball player were over. When UT started taking down his image on area billboards Tuesday-- it was obvious the end was near.

A win over Virginia Tech on Thursday night would have made the Vols a contender for a national ranking to start the 2010 season. In fact, a win may have actually moved the Vols into the national rankings this year. But those hopes fell flat early in the 3rd quarter of the Chick-fil-a Bowl. Tennessee didn't just lose-- they were blown out, 37-14. 

At best, UT fans should be uneasy about 2010. 

The Colts' Lost Undefeated Season:  More than anyone, Peyton Manning can appreciate what was lost when the Indianapolis coaching staff waved the white-flag on Sunday against the New York Jets.  Manning is a student of NFL history and the Colts were playing for the first-ever unbeaten season since the Miami Dolphins did it in 1972. The Patriots came close two years ago, but lost in the Super Bowl.  I understand why coaches bench players late in the season. The risk of injury is always high.

A Tennessee football fan I know had very few words after seeing the picture of two Orange Pride hostesses with UT football recruits. But the reaction was startling in its simplicity.

"That's pretty (incriminating)," the fan said.