Bobby Knight preaches, ?The will to win is not nearly as important as the will to prepare to win.? Throw that life lesson in with the trash-talking duo from White Men Can?t Jump that kept saying, ?This s@#$ is too easy. No, no this s@#$ is TOO easy? and you?ve pretty much summed up Super Bowl XXXVII.

You may have noticed that I did correctly call the coin toss (Tails) and the first individual to score (Janikowski) but after that my predictions were pretty much out the window. Gannon never once left the pocket (though he should have), Shania Twain paled in comparison to Gwen Stefani?s live vocal talents and energetic stage presence, Willie Nelson wasn?t as funny as the Bud commercials (take your pick) and there was no Beyonce Knowles Pepsi commercial—though I?m sure I read somewhere that there was.

The game was decided once Callahan started greedily going for 2-point conversions, though it was probably decided during the Buccaneers defensive practices where Monte and John apparently prepared their team for every single play the Raiders would be likely to run.

While Gannon didn?t perform like an MVP, and set a Super Bowl record with 5 INT?s, he did have some drops early on by both Garner and Brown that could have given them some offensive momentum. You also have to look at Rod Woodson?s inexcusable drop of a pick that could have been returned deep in to Bucs territory that would have resulted in at least an additional 3 points on the board.

If Raider Nation is looking for other excuses and reasoning—-I?d agree that every important questionable call went against them (the Woodson pass interference on an uncatchable call and Porter being forced out of bounds). But it all starts with the head coach, who obviously was outsmarted, outcoached and outclassed by Gruden and Company. And if Callahan couldn?t prepare his team with some creative additions to the playbook, he certainly couldn?t keep the team from being distracted by their bi-polar center?s ill-timed trip to Tijuana which led to his dismissal.

However, you don?t read me for football analysis, so here are the important notes I took during the game:

College intros- How could you not be embarrassed as a college football fan or alumni of one of the following players introductions; Charlie Garner (University of Untouchables), Simeon Rice (School of Hard Knocks) and Reagan Upshaw (Pitt High). And I?m still trying to figure out where the hell Charles Woodson claimed to have played—but I know it didn?t sound anything like Michigan. Then again, if I went to Michigan I?d probably say something else too.

Commercials- A down year in my opinion, though every $2million that Anheuser Busch spent seemed worth the money including; the zebra/ass instant replay review of the Clydesdales game, the guy looking over his girlfriend?s shoulder at the game while she went on and on about something or other, the hand-walking clown in search of a hot dog, and the two guys taking yoga for all the right reason. The best of the rest would have to be Yao and Yogi?s debit card spot and the office linebacker for Reebok.

Oh and those Jennifer Garner/Alias commercials weren?t too shabby either. Yet another program that might make it?s way to my Replay.

And if you ask me an even bigger upset than the Bucs winning as a three point dog, was the Tampa Bay cheerleading squad taking it right to the Raiderettes with toothy smiles and high leg kicks that when enjoyed in slow-motion seemingly defied physics and the laws of gravity.

Tonight: Kansas tries to avoid 3 L?s in a row (Hook ?em horns), Colin, Puck and Ruthie try to maintain their dominance of the inner circle, and Fox pulls me even further in to the abyss of reality programming with Bridezillas right before Joe Millionaire sends Zora home?