Although the ultimate narrative of last night's Super Bowl will surely focus on the figurative rebirth of an American city, the actual game should be remembered for Sean Payton's gutsy playcalling. Showing the kind of true grit wrapped in cryptic common sense, the Saints delivered a stunning message by recovering an onside kick to open the second half. As for how all this relates to the Browns, let's consider Eric Mangini. In a similar situation, would Mangini have made this call? Obviously, his 2009 roster does not equal even a tenth of the Saints' offensive firepower, which of course would severely limit any coach's confidence in his team. But, all things being equal - which they clearly aren't - do we have a coach who would take such a risk? Dave Kolonich gives us his thoughts.

The offseason is upon us. Time for months of speculating about potential free agents and draft picks. One might argue that the Browns could do little better than they already have this offseason, what with the acquisition of both Mike Holmgren and Tom Heckert (not to mention the plethora of new Heckgren underlings and hirelings). On paper, it's really hard to argue that the Cleveland professional football organization hasn't made leaps in the right direction. In Chris Hutchison's latest edition of The Browns Outsider, he primes our readers for the off-season, touching on all the winter developments with the organization ... and by taking a position by position look at where the Browns stand in terms of personnel and talent.

What a well-played football game. I mean Super Bowl-caliber play by both clubs. There were very few penalties, very few errors and, after a slow start to the scoring, the game took off and became what we thought it might be when the match up was determined two weeks ago. Right up until the moment Peyton Manning committed the only turnover of the game and threw a ball intended for Reggie Wayne directly to Saints DB Tracy Porter instead. Porter took it back for a 31-17 lead with just three minutes remaining and delivered the city of New Orleans its first Super Bowl title. Peeker hits on the Super Bowl and all the latest developments in the world of Cleveland sports in The Weekend Wrap.

With winter imposing its snowy will on the North Coast over the weekend and now knee deep into 14 hours of Super Bowl pre-game coverage, time to bring Paulie C back in for his regular Lazy Sunday piece here on the site. It's been another slow news week in terms of Indians coverage, with the biggest "story" of the week was Grady Sizemore addressing reporters for the first time to discuss the "coffee cup" incident that occurred earlier in the off-season. Paulie hits on Grady and his contract status, points out some incredibly irresponsible journalism, and addresses the notion that the Indians simply don't have any money to spend on the free agency market.