Super Bowl Hangover

Well it's been about one month since the hometown Colts defeated the Bears in the "big game", and people here in Indy still act like it was just yesterday. It's nice to see that people still have their car window Colts flags on, still wearing plenty of blue shirts & coats, businesses still have offices decorated, and there is still a HUGE "Go Colts" banner hanging in front of a nice Meridian-Kessler house. I'm not sure if people are just lazy or what. Since this whole "winning a professional championship" thing is new to the fine people of Indianapolis, I honestly think they just don't know what the standard operating procedures are for these decorations. Of course, there is the polar extreme--like my boss--who felt the need to take down all of the Colts decorations in our office on the day immediately following the Super Bowl. What a drag. Why not just wait until the end of the week? We told her it was too soon, so she just started doing it herself on that Wed. Of course, none of us offered to help her. There were a couple things that were high up & she could not reach so we finally had to help out otherwise it would have looked really lame to have 2 blue paper footballs hanging from the ceiling. Like she couldn't find anything more productive to do on a Wednesday afternoon. What a f**king joke. Anyway, I think there is a happy medium somewhere in between.

Here's my theory: If you LOSE the big game, you remove all decorations the next day--no questions asked. You don't wear any of the losing team's apparel for 2 months. It avoids reminding fans of their big loss until they have hopefully accepted it. But if you WIN, you keep the decorations up for a couple weeks--it will remind people of something great & will hopefully put them into a better mood than they already are in. You wear your gear at least once a week for the same reason.

Like I said, it's been almost a month now, the snow is slowly melting here in Indy, so it's time to take down the decorations. It's time to run your car through the car wash to rinse off the winter salt & grime layer, so it's time to also remove those car window flags. Put those flags in a safe place & bring them back out in September. Don't wait until playoff time to put it back on your car again--it makes you look like a fair-weather fan. And most importantly, start cutting back on the days you wear the Colts gear. All the blue stuff will be faded by the time next season kicks off if you keep wearing it all the time. I guess that's good for business at the Pro Shop though!