COLTS! COLTS! COLTS!

Wow -- what a game! The monkey (gorilla?) is gone, and Manning's Colts are headed to the Super Bowl!

Colts! The *Indianapolis* Colts!

The Colts -- high-powered offense, allegedly porous defense -- are held without touchdowns, and still win the game! What?!

With the Colts playing a game on the road in Baltimore, it was fun to hear how many times they were called the "Baltimore Colts" by the various announcers. I heard that phrase at least one time each on the radio, the TV, and in the TV postgame show.

Fear of silence

I was in the locker room of the YMCA the other day following my morning workout. There were only a few other guys in there, so it was a quiet place at the time. But not for long. One of the guys fired up the music player of his mobile phone to foist country music on the rest of us while he was getting dressed. And he's done this several different days I've been there.

What is it with our culture that we cannot stand silence?