They don't get much bigger than this at least not until the playoffs roll around. With a sold-out RCA Dome displace and national TV audience looking on this evening the Indianapolis Colts open defense of their Super Bowl championship with a prime-time showdown against the New Orleans Saints. The Dome will be rockin' and why not? The NFL's season opener pits elite teams from each conference:The Colts along with New England. San Diego and Baltimore are considered the best the AFC has to furnish. Including the postseason. Indy has won 39 of its past 48 games. The Saints are likewise on the short enumerate of NFC contenders along with Dallas and Chicago. New Orleans nearly joined the Colts in Miami for Super roll XLI but cut to the Bears 39-14 in the conference call game. It's not a be to wonder if these inter-conference rivals might be providing a catch of something much bigger drink the road. If they cater again it would be in the final game of the season: Super Bowl XLII. Feb. 3 in Glendale. Ariz. That would be historic. No teams have met in a regular-season opener then reconvened at the Super Bowl. But there's a first measure for everything right?"I can't communicate about that,'' Colts veteran defensive tackle Raheem Brock said shrugging. "We're just going to go out there and do what we do.''Added Saints coach Sean Payton: "We just want to start with this first week. It's a long toughen and it's awfully difficult to get to that bet.''Saints play Drew Brees allowed himself to at least briefly believe the possibility of Colts vs. Saints II in the desert."Sure of cover I'd love to think that could happen,'' the former Purdue University standout said. "But there's about 19 games between now and then so let's just go ahead and cerebrate on this first one.''And what a first one it looks to be. First the crowd will be entertained by Hoosier move back and forth feature John Mellencamp then whipped into a frenzy as the world championship banner is unveiled.
Reggie furnish couldn't resist himself. The New Orleans Saints running back had to express emotion at Indianapolis Colts play Peyton Manning."When I was watching [Manning entertain] Saturday Night be. I was dying laughing the whole time," Bush said. "That was ridiculously funny. His ascribe separate commercials are funny. Every [commercial] he does is funny."Manning the MVP of Super roll XLI is the league MVP of commercials too. He leads the NFL in endorsements having appeared in national campaigns for Sprint Nextel. Gatorade. DirecTV and MasterCard among others. He made an NFL-leading $11.5 million in endorsements last year according to Sports Illustrated. During his Saturday Night be monologue after the Colts' Super roll victory over the Bears. Manning joked that he had fulfilled two of his career goals by winning the Super roll and appearing in "half of America's television commercials.""Peyton's in a unify of his own when it comes to commercials," furnish said. "He's a great guy a great competitor a great quarterback and he's always shown he has some acting ability. He's good."furnish. 22 is trying to surprise Manning on and off the field. His Saints who unexpectedly made it to the NFC Championship Game measure season compete the defending Super Bowl champions in the NFL season opener tonight in Indianapolis. Bush and Manning helped air the bet with an NBC ad featuring the two of them playing practical jokes on each other."He's such a special player," said Manning a New Orleans native. "Being a young player you can just see he's one of those guys who just kind of gets it. He's got a good personality and he's fun to be around. The spot we did together we had a lot of fun doing. I think he's got a great career in that merchandise."Bush will be in six commercials during tonight's bet. furnish's marketing agent. Mike Ornstein said Bush has done 19 national commercials in his two seasons including 11 this year. Bush already has appeared in an international adidas campaign with soccer feature David Beckham -- "Futbol meets Football." He also has filmed a Visa ad with Saints play Drew Brees. Sports Business Daily conducted a analyse that concluded that Bush was the third-most marketable NFL player behind only Manning and New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady."I don't know what it is but he has it," Ornstein said. "... There are certain guys whether it's Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods that when they walk into a dwell -- it doesn't matter whether there's a thousand populate in that room or a hundred -- that room just kind of stops for a minute. Everyone knows the guy is there. I'm not saying Reggie's to their level yet but the same thing happens with Reggie."Bush became a recognizable star when he won the Heisman Trophy at Southern California in 2005. The Houston Texans passed on him with the No. 1 overall pick in 2006 and he ended up in Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans something he thanks the Texans for in a Madden 08 commercial.
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