Super guy and big event

Jeff Day — Sports Columnist Super Bowl 44 in Miami is going to be an absolute dandy. I will break it down for ya’all (New Orleans talk) in a second. The first thing to acknowledge the retirement of Kurt Warner from the NFL. A fairy tale story the NFL if there ever was one.

Kurt played college ball at Northern Iowa and went undrafted in 1994, then he spent three years in the Arena Football League for the Iowa Barnstormers. He also bagged groceries. Paper or plastic was his catch phrase!

Mr. Warner gets his chance with the putrid St. Louis Rams when Trent Green goes down with an injury. That injury happened in Detroit, by the way, in an exhibition game. He becomes the quarterback of the "Greatest Show on Turf" and earns a Super Bowl victory over Tennessee in 1999. He then leads the Rams back in 2001 and loses to a kid named Tom Brady and the Patriots.

In the 2003 season, he looks awful against the Giants and ends his Rams career. Ironically, Warner signs with the Giants in 2004 and starts nine games before losing his job to a kid named Eli Manning. Another ironic twist comes into play as the Arizona Cardinals, who were formally the Rams, sign him in 2005. He resurrects the Cardinals franchise to winners and takes them to the 2009 Super Bowl and loses to the Steelers. Here are a few of Kurt's accomplishments. A 65 percent completion percentage, 32,344 yards, 208 TD passes, and the top three Super Bowl passing yards in Super Bowl history. The totals you ask? 414 yards. vs. Tennessee, 377 yards. vs. Pittsburgh, and 366 vs. New England.

Kurt Warner is a class act all the way as a football player and human being. A ragsto riches-to-rags-and-back-toriches story. I am pretty sure he won't pull a Brett Favre soap opera and return. He left $11.5 million on the table from the Cards in contract money. Thanks for the memories, Kurt Warner; see you at your Hall of Fame speech.

The big event

The current big event is the last football game for the next six months. Super Bowl 44 features the Colts and Saints, the No. 1 seeds from the NFC and AFC Conferences. Offense will be the theme in this football game.

Peyton Manning, the best in the business,

can lead his team down the field at will. But, Drew Brees has numerous weapons in his arsenal, too, and can lead his team down field at will.

I expect numerous points to be put on the digital scoreboard. The team with the football last wins Super Bowl 44; trust me on that one.

I know the public thinks Peyton and the Colts’ defense is the difference. But remember, the Colts stopped Baltimore and the Jets, not what I call offensive football teams.

The Saints’ defense lives off of turnovers, and they wont get many of those in this game from Peyton. Maybe a fumble somewhere, if they are lucky. Obviously, the Colts have won a Super Bowl, and the Saints have not. If you believe in experience, take the Colts. If you believe in destiny, pick the boys from New Orleans. My prediction: No Horsing Around, 34, and Who Dat, 31.

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