Just a few thought about the NFL's big day:

1) It's a bummer to think that there is no more professional football until next September.

Sure, the Pro Bowl takes place next weekend, but does anyone really watch that? Even as much as I love football, I can't be bothered to watch what is essentially an excuse for some of the NFL's best players to take a Hawaiian vacation on the league's dime. As far as football significance is concerned, the game ranks somewhere between the fourth game of the preseason and the last practice with no pads before the real games start.

2) The poor weather conditions were supposed to be to Chicago's advantage - what happened?

It is a universally accepted truism that bad weather narrows the talent gap between two teams, giving the team with less talent a better chance to win than they would otherwise have had. Unfortunately for the Bears, this only holds true when you can: 1 - Run the ball as well as, or better than, the other team, and, 2 - Hold onto the ball. Six turnovers in the first quarter illustrated how the torrential rain was affecting the players, but since there were three for each team, they more or less cancelled each other out.

3) This is going to be one long, uncomfortable offseason for Rex Grossman.

The man who spent the season as the NFL's poster boy for inconsistent play turned in another stinker in a game in which the Bears needed him to be a lot more reliable than he was. Grossman was stumbling and bumbling around all night like Britney Spears after last call. In addition to the fumbles and interceptions, he could have lost the ball and number of other times, but was barely able to hang on.

Grossman's decision-making suffered as well, especially late in the game when Chicago was attempting a desperate comeback. The interception he threw on the second-to-last series was an example of decision-making at its worst. Grossman threw the ball off-balance, off the wrong foot, and it hung up in the air like a wounded duck, giving Bob Sanders more than enough time to camp under it. The pass looked like something I would have thrown.

4) The Bears should have known better than to use Ohio State's game plan from the BCS Championship Game.

You would think that given two weeks to prepare, Chicago's playbook would have been a little more in-depth than the two steps it apparently contained. Here is a glimpse into the Bears Super Bowl playbook:
1 - Run back the opening kickoff for a touchdown.
2 - Suck.

5) When it comes to Super Bowl ads, you can't go wrong with talking animals.

For my money, the best commercials last night were the mouse pad one, the crabs worshiping the cooler full of Budweiser, and the talking lions. Speaking of talking Lions, either one of the two featured in the commercial seemed brighter than Matt Millen. I wonder if anyone in Detroit was paying attention?