bears certainly showed some serious mettle.
39 points when your QB only throws for 140 some yards is pretty downright impressive.
the "not bad" Rex showed up, no bad mistakes, and the bears win convincingly. if the good Rex had shown up it might have been 70 points.
holding the NO offense to 14 points is downright impressive as well.
the super bowl should be one heck of a game. Payton manning showed a lot the last two games, pulling off a win with 5 field goals last week and coming back from a 21-3 deficit this week.
bottom line is that you can win a football game 2-0, and it still counts as a win, and Payton figured out how to win these last two games.
I have to give special credit to Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith. Despite being repeatedly badgered about the "first black head coaches in the super bowl" nonsense, they stuck to football and didn't try to make hay on race. They showed a lot of class.