Survey says

ESPN.com is up to their old tricks, this time with a survey asking people who they want to see win the Super Bowl more: Colts head coach Tony Dungy or Bears head coach Lovie Smith.
And the obvious winner: Tony Dungy, obviously. He had 78 percent of the vote.

What is it with this website lately? Did ESPN really need to take a vote to realize that Dungy is an obvious candidate to be a sentimental favorite?

I doubt the overwhelming difference in opinion from the sports watching nation is an indictment of how people feel about Smith, Instead, it’s probably more so indicative of how much longer Dungy has been around.

This guy has been a head coach for over a decade now. He took a perennial bottom-feeding franchise and turned them into a yearly contender, only to be fired the year before they won a Super Bowl. Simply put, this guy has already been robbed of a ring. Then you add the news that his 18 year old son committed suicide last year and you can’t help but want to see this guy succeed because of how well he has handled the difficult times put before him, both professionally and personally.

Again, this poll shouldn’t be seen as a knock on Smith, what so ever, as his players, peers and the media all speak highly of him. It’s just simply a case of him not being a house hold name for a long enough period of time.

That ESPN decided to use their heavily trafficked website to ask hundreds of thousands of people a question that could be answered by simply having a remedial understanding of how people in this country feel is a sign of just how far these sports writers are reaching to find another story about the Super Bowl.

Reading these silly surveys on ESPN.com has been both nauseating and appreciated. I can’t stand reading them. They offer absolutely nothing I couldn’t figure out on my own. But still, they give me a better appreciation of those rare moments I come across a sports survey worth reading.

Take the survey Coors Lite just administered.

-40% of adult males believe that the Super Bowl is a bigger event than Valentine’s Day.

-44% put more time and energy into making Super Bowl plans than they do in making
Valentine’s Day plans.

-30% would rather see their favorite team win the Super Bowl than win a date with a super model, win a year’s supply of beer, or win their fantasy football league for three consecutive years.

-More than 83% cheer for the underdog if their team is not in the Super Bowl.

-67% will get off the couch to use the restroom during the game.

-55% will get off the couch to get something to eat during the game.

-35% will get off the couch to get a beer during the game.

What a novel idea Coors Lite had here; ask people to answer questions that you couldn’t figure out by yourself. ESPN can learn something here. In fact, we all can learn something from this.

-40% of adult males are either single or will be spending Valentine’s Day night sleeping on a couch.

-56% of adult males can be expected to hear the question, “So, what do you have planned for Valentine’s Day” asked several times throughout the course of the game.

-Only 70% of the male population is heterosexual.

-17% of adult males cheered when Apollo Creed defeated Rocky Balboa; promptly boycotted the sequel.

-33% of the population has incredible bladder control, or wears dark pants.

-35% of the population is too stupid to keep the beer near the television during the game.