*Lovie Smith is the lowest paid head coach in the NFL. In fact, Smith makes less money than a good handful of NFL assistant coaches. Win lose or draw on Sunday, it’s time for Lovie to get a big raise.

*As Super Bowl week has ramped up, so have some of the frustrations, tongues and even tempers of the Chicago Bears. Trash talking has started to fly people… at least 2006 Bears style anyway. Rex has finally had enough with the press, Tommie Harris is predicting a win from the sidelines, and Lance Briggs can’t seem to back away from the pseudo-guarantee that he gave on Thursday. Jim McMahon, however, remains the best trash talker affiliated with the Chicago Bears… as Jimmy Mac is refusing to back the team that traded him.

*Rex Grossman thinks the media is ignorant… he’s just not sure, you know, why he thinks they’re ignorant.

*And the award for the most entertaining press conference of the 2007 Super Bowl goes to… Prince and his dancing nymphos. Party like it’s 1985, baby!!!

*Billy Joel will be signing the National Anthem on Sunday for the second time at the Super Bowl (Joel’s other appearance-SB XXIII). The Grambling University Marching Band are the only other folks to have the honor of singing the anthem twice at the Super Bowl. To use his own words… Billy Joel is a big shot. Once again he’ll have the white-hot spotlight, and he’ll have to prove it to the crowd.

For a list of all of the anthem performers, click here.

*The Chicago Bears recorded a Super Bowl record 7 sacks in Super Bowl XX. If they get half of that against Peyton Manning, the Bears are going to roll to victory.

*Lovie Smith tickled a few funny bones at a recent press conference (yes, that Lovie Smith) when he said that he thinks Brian Urlacher is the person on the Bears most similar to him in body type and athletic ability.

*Super Bowl Sunday is considered the second biggest food consumption day on the American calendar, behind only Thanksgiving.

*This will be the record setting 16^th time that the CBS network will air the Super Bowl. NBC has hosted 15 Super Bowls, ABC 7, and FOX 4. The NFL Network has hosted zero Super Bowls.

*The winners of the last 3 Super Bowl coin tosses (Carolina, Philly, and Seattle) have gone on to lose the Super Bowl. In 1985, the Bears won the toss, received the kick, and the rest is history.

*Only six NFL teams (the Cardinals, Browns, Lions, Texans, Saints and Jaguars) have never made it to the Super Bowl. The Cards, Browns and Lions have won NFL Championships before the days of the Super Bowl. The Texans, Jaguars and Saints are expansion teams. The Saints have been expanding since 1967.

*The Bears are attempting to win their 10^th NFL Championship. Besides 1985, the Bears also won the NFL title in 1963, ’46, ’43,’41, ’40, ’33, ’32, ’21. This is the 12^th time that the Bears have appeared in the final game of the NFL season.

*The officiating crew for Sunday's Super Bowl sounds like the roll call at a mafia sit-down, highlighted by the ruthless brothers Carl 'the zebra' and Perry 'pork-pie' Paganelli. Also on the crew; Tony 'thumbs' Corrente, Ron 'rotgut' Marinucci, and little Jimmy Saracino.

All jokes aside, Carl and Perry Paganelli are the first siblings to work the Super Bowl together.

*Hunter Hillenmeyer is sick. How’s that for crappy timing (pun intended)?

*Brett Favre is coming back to the Packers next season with a shot at breaking every record in the book. With the Bears 2 days from their first Super Bowl in 21 years, all I have to say right now is… who cares?