There used to be a time when I was a worshipful little minion on Super Sunday, organizing my routine around three hours of television, around a football game.

These days, unless Oklahoma is playing, the possibility is fair that I won't give a rat's you-know-what.

However, I'm still a sports fan, and I have a hunch about this game, namely that Chicago is going to win this bugger.

Just a month ago, we watched Ohio State swagger into the college football national championship game all but ready to accept the hardware. There was no chance that Florida could beat them, right?

Well, Florida was dominant in a 41-14 national title game win, and they did it on the strength of their defense. There wasn't a lot of doubt that the Gators could score some points against the Buckeyes, but the notion that they could hold Ohio State to just one offensive touchdown was ludacris.

Likewise, everybody expected Indy and Peyton Manning to have their way with the Bears like the Colts seem to do with every NFL team. Well, they were stymied a bit by the Baltimore Ravens, who held them to five field goals in a 15-6 Indy win.

However, the Bears play terrific team defense. Their special teams play is out of this world. The only question is whether the Indy D can render Rex Grossman completely flustered.

Totally possible given that Grossman is as fragile an NFL quarterback as I have ever seen. However, like Terry Bradshaw back in the day, Rex can go deep on you every once in a while and has Bernard Berrian, Mushin Muhammed and Mark Bradley at his disposal.

More impressively, the Bears have an effective running game with Thomas Jones and Cedric Benson. Their grind-it-out style not only serves them well in terms of ball-control, it opens the Colts' defense to things like deep play-action passes.

Sure, the Colts can win this game. However, the only way I see this being a rout is if the Bears are doing the routing. While Peyton has the monkey slightly off his back, he ain't won the Super Bowl just yet. I'll see it when I believe it with this guy.

Bob Sanders could wreak havoc with the Indy D, causing Rex to curl up in a football fetal position by the start of the second quarter. It's possible.

But, my gut hunch is that the Bears win a surprisingly low-scoring grind-it-out Super Bowl 19-16.