Dave is very proud of his Indianapolis Colts, who are mostly farm boys who are just discovering moving pictures and the automobile, for defeating the big city slickers from Chicago, the Chicago Bears. Nice going, Colts.

As you can imagine, it's a pretty happy day in Indianapolis. Take a look. We see shots of the Colts celebrating after the game.

"They did it. The Colts won the Super Bowl. The people of Indianapolis would like to thank the quarterback who made it all possible. Rex Grossman. The Indianapolis Colts . . . suck on that, bitch."

Last night's Super Bowl halftime show went on despite the heavy rain in Miami. It caused some trouble when Prince performed. Take a look.
We see Prince performing in the rain. Uh oh. He's playing his electric guitar in the rain . . . . ZAP! Prince explodes to smithereens and disappears.

GREAT MOMENTS IN PRESIDENTIAL SPEECHES: We see FDR. We see JFK. We see George W. Bush: "My kids can't read."

Last night, Dave's Indianapolis Colts earned their second Vince Lombardi Trophy with a victory over the Chicago Bears. We welcome the MVP of Super Bowl XLI, Peyton Manning, to the show in something we call, ASK PEYTON MANNING

From Sarah Calhoun of Groton, Connecticut:
"Why were there so many fumbles?"
Peyton: "Many say it was due to the rain, but actually, before the game most of us were partying with Paula Abdul." (rim shot) "Still a reference, people."

From Laura Nutter, Brooklyn, New York:
"Did you get a chance to see any of the Super Bowl commercials?"
Peyton: "Yeah, I really liked the one where Oprah Winfrey visited that old, dying man." Dave: "Uh, Peyton, that was me."
Peyton: "Oops! Open mouth . . . insert foot." (rim shot) "C'mon, we've all been there!"

Alyssa Rosenbloom, Scranton Pennsylvania writes:
"What do you say to the people who claim you did too many endorsements this season?"
Peyton: "It's that sort of thing that makes my head hurt. And when that happens, I take Excedrin." (rim shot) "I just made 50 grand."

From Tina Sears, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
"What was the worst thing about the rain?"
Peyton: "It made Don Shula smell like a wet squirrel." (rim shot) "I must be a teacher, because you hot schooled!"

Allison Southworth of Framingham, Massachusetts writes:
"What will you remember most about the historic 2006-2007 season?"
Peyton: "The camaraderie and showering with dudes." (rim shot) Peyton pulls an imaginary cord and we hear a loud tractor-trailer horn blast.

From Dennis Bruno of Bridgeport, Connecticut:
"How did you stay relaxed in the biggest game of your life?"
Peyton: "I had my helmet radio set to Stern." (rim shot) "Baba booey! Baba booey!"

Robert Kaplan of New York City writes:
"At one point late in the half, it looked like you went to the two-minute drill."
Peyton: "You're wrong, Pat Summerall. We stayed in our base offense. The last time I did the 'two-minute drill' was my honeymoon." (rim shot) "C'mon, everybody Wang Chung tonight!"

From Matthew Stevens of San Diego, California:
"What's the best part about being a Super Bowl Champion?"
Peyton: "Already hocked the ring on eBay for a Playstation 3." (rim shot) Peyton pours a bottle of Gatorade over his head while screaming "I am the champion!"

Dale Rogers of Dover, Delaware writes:
"How are you celebrating the Super Bowl win?"
Peyton: (holding up two tickets) "Two words: 'Jersey Boys'!" (rim shot) Peyton starts singing "Sherry"

Colleen Williams of Lincoln, Nebraska writes:
"Are you going to Disneyworld?"
Peyton: "I just won the Super Bowl. The only place I'm going is Jessica Alba's bedroom." (rim shot) Peyton turns to another camera and says in all seriousness: "Kids, we're having some laughs here, but joining a gang isn't funny. Play it straight."

From Steven Thompson of Syracuse, New York:
"What's it been like all these years having people constantly criticize your performance?"
Peyton: (remains silent)
Dave: "Uh, Peyton?"
Peyton: "Oh, I thought that was a question for you." (rim shot) "You in ma house! You in Peyton's place, bitch!"

Craig Finn of Brooklyn, New York writes:
"How were the conditions on the field?"
Peyton: "Tough. Thankfully, I got some advice from Ryan Seacrest on handling wet balls." (rim shot) "Oh, please, you were all thinking it!"
Music as Peyton exits.
Peyton: That's my time. Go see 'Norbit' - Eddie Murphy plays like 9 hysterical characters. You'll laugh your ass off!"

It was so successful the first time, we're going back there again. Next week, it's Ventriloquist Week, Part Deux.
Mon Feb 12 - Kevin Johnson with Clyde & Matilda
Tue Feb 13 - Dan Horn & Orson
Wed Feb 14 - Otto & George.
Thu Feb 15 - Jim Barber & Seville
Fri Feb 16 - Brad Cummings with Rex

TOP TEN: Chicago Bears Excuses
#5. Colts players were shoving us.
#3. Like the rest of America, we wanted to see Peyton finally win the big one.
Check out the rest of the Top Ten on "Last Night on the Late Show"

DR. PHIL: He's now in his 5th season. He points out that Dave has been doing late night programs for 25 years. Asks Dr. Phil, 'Who did you slander and attack for the first 20 years?"
Dr. Phil says he was surprised to see Dave enjoyed the Super Bowl with Oprah. Who knew? Dave glows in his praise of Oprah, admitting that "whenever I spent any time with her, I find . . . .I really like it." He goes on that "the presence of the woman is transcendent, it's palpable . . ." Dave sizes up the situation quite accurately when he says, "Oprah is a humanitarian, and we're . . . (Dave and Dr. Phil) . . . and we're just a couple of boobs." Oprah certainly has made quite an impact on Mr. Letterman, so much so that I wouldn't be surprised if our start time for the Monday and Thursday tapings aren't soon changed from 4:30 to 5:30 PM. 4:30 is smack dab in the middle of "Oprah".
With the Super Bowl still on everybody's mind, we learn that Dr. Phil was a football player himself, having played throughout his youth and ending up at the University of Tulsa as a middle linebacker. How'd the team do? Dr. Phil says his team lost to Houston by the score of 100-6. Ouch! I looked it up and sure enough on November 23, 1968, the University of Tulsa lost 100-6 to the 11th ranked University of Houston. I don't have the information at hand but if you bet the over, you probably won. I'm not sure what the spread was.
Has Dr. Phil ever dabbled in sports psychology? He has, so Dave wants to know what is why so many of today's professional athletes are getting into trouble. Dr. Phil blames it on them having too much money and too much free time. I have the same problem, except I don't have any money or free time.
What happened to "The Doctor Phil House"? It was supposed to be like "Big Brother" meets Dr. Phil; a bunch of losers are housed together and Dr. Phil analyzes them and gives his professional help. Dave asks, "Can you turn on the monitor and watch them 'doing it'?" Dr. Phil supposes that could happen. Hoo boy, talk about a rating bonanza.
And that was our time with Dr. Phil.

Our building engineer George Clarke keeps this building running. He's a master with a wrench. For the new year, he made a pledge to get his body in as good of shape as the Ed Sullivan Theater. He's put himself on a diet and vigorous work out schedule. Dave shows a photo of George from November, 2006. He looks chubby at the equator. How does George look now? Let's take a look. The scrim rises and we find George in a pair of pants that no longer fit his body. Dave asks, "George, how much weight did you lose?" Says George, "None. I just bought a huge pair of pants." Freeze; announce from Alan:
Alan: "Ha! Now that joke is fat with a P.H.! The Late Show, delivering laughs so sidesplitting you'll get a six-pack! Back to you, lardass!"

ACT 5: Alan: "Hey, fans! Looking for some World Champion Chicago Bears Super Bowl Merchandise? We've got Chicago Bears World Champion T-shirts, hats, and intimates. This swag is priced to move! Just log on to Kalterworld.com, and let the world know you're a fan of the Super Bowl Champion Chicago Bears. Catch you on the flip"

FALL OUT BOY: From their new CD, "Infinity On High", Fall Out Boy performed "This Ain't a Scene."

And that was our show for Monday, February 5, 2007.



Indianapolis Colts: 29
Chicago Bears: 17
That was the most one-sided close game I've ever seen.
The most surprising stat of the day: Rex Grossman was 20-28. . . . although 13 of those completions came in the last quarter.

Well that didn't take long . . .
I turned on the game about a half hour before the start of the game. Cirque de Soleil is doing its thing. Acrobats are flying through the air doing tumblesaults and flips and things. Unfortunately, we never get to see a full flight. Time and time again the camera cuts to a guy already in mid-flight. In the background you can see another guy about to be launched, but then there is another cutaway to something else. And then we cut back to the guy who was about to be launched already in flight. Too many cutaways to get any sense of what the heck was going on. It wasn't very optimistic for the rest of the game. I turned the game off to do some things before the start of the game.

I was back 20 minutes later just as the Indianapolis Colts are about to run out of the tunnel and onto the field. Super Bowl staffers hold Colts flags that align their path. The flags are raised and the Colts storm the field . . . unfortunately the graphic reading "Indianapolis Colts" cover much of the players. The graphic was for those who somehow did not hear the loud announcement, "And here are the Indianapolis Colts!" Seconds later, the above is repeated for the Chicago Bears. The graphic for the Chicago Bears covers the players, but it only remains on screen for half the time the Colts graphic stayed up.

And then seconds after that there was an unnecessary on-field interview with Brian Urlacher. I'm sure he had nothing important to say, although that's just a guess. The audio went out as he began to answer the question and came back just as he finished. For some reason, this satisfied me.

And then seconds after the conclusion of the singing of the National Anthem, a bunch of jets flew overhead . . . . too bad we couldn't see them . . . it was nighttime already. You could just barely see some dim lights fly by overhead. But I'm sure it looked great during the noon rehearsal.

And seconds after that was the coin toss. The Bears won the toss and elected to receive. Color commentator for CBS, Phil Simms said that teams tend to be very tight at the start of the Super Bowl and maybe the Colts losing the coin toss is blessing. And then seconds after that, Chicago kickoff return specialist Devin Hester ran back the opening kickoff 92 yards for a touchdown. I was more than a bit disappointed in Phil Simms for not offering an "oops."

And it only took till the 3rd play from scrimmage for CBS to miss a play. It was in replay mode or some special feature mode when we missed a Colt jump offsides.

BUT, other than that, I give CBS high marks for their broadcast of the Super Bowl. There were very few shots of the crowd; very few shots of the coaches. At least I don't remember screaming much at the television, so I guess that's a good sign. Sure there were a lot of shots with raindrops on the lens but that's unavoidable. I like how you can't fight mother nature. I liked the raindrops on the lens. And kudos to both teams for behaving like mature men after making a play. I didn't see one cartwheel or pose the whole game.

The Halftime Show with Prince. Well, if you like Prince I think you would have liked the show. There was a lot of Prince in that 10 minutes, as it should be. And I don't know if they did it just for me, but I was very happy to see a marching band. Too bad you couldn't hear them.

Who was that quarterbacking the Chicago Bears . . . Steve Bartman?

Saturday night before the Super Bowl, the NFL Network rebroadcast the Jets/Colts Super Bowl 3 from 1969. I found it by accident. The second I turned it on, what did I see? I saw the Jets in a huddle. And then a second after that they showed the Colts in a huddle on defense! You could watch a year's worth of games today and not see one football huddle on offence or defense. I loved it. The cameras were showing what was going on down on the field in between plays. If a player was going out of the game and another player coming in . . . WE SAW IT! There seemed to be about 3 cameras in play the whole game and it worked so much better than the 40 or so cameras we get for today's Super Bowl. What an enjoyable way to watch a football game. No flash, no splash, just football.

How was your Super Bowl Sunday? I spent my day leading up to the game by cleaning the grout in my kitchen floor. It's a Super Bowl Sunday tradition for me. I do it every year and it kills two hours of the day. Hey, it's better than watching the pre-game stuff.

This year's Late Show Super Bowl Pool big winner is Segment Producer, Brian Teta. He earned 500 units. And he was in Sunday's New York Post in an article about Stupid Pet Tricks.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02042007/
entertainment/fetch_sketch_entertainment_.htm

I forgot to check ESPN during the game, but just prior to kickoff they had figure skating and the world's strongest man competition.

What was on CBS after the game? Here in New York and the east, CBS goes from the post-game hoopla into the 11:00 news. What's on in the west?

Are we supposed to fly our flags at half staff for Barbaro, too?

Here is Day 3 of Late Night 25 years ago:
Late Night: Show #3 - February 3, 1982
New Products of 1982: paste on forehead map; brass knuckles mug; cooked book; Shriner clock; ovens shoes and hat; weasel canisters; radio soap; Lindsey Nelson album; Helium socks; underwear stretcher
-Terry Gilliam: from "Monty Python" - clip from "Time Bandits"
-Report from George Miller's room (vt)
-Alan Alda: A Man and His Chinese Food (vt)
-Hank Aaron - New member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame - Al Albert interviews Hank in the hall
-Irving Caesar - 86-year-old songwriter

And so ends another issue of the Wahoo Gazette, the world's longest continuous-running blog on the internet. . . I think.

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