Driving to Providence on Route 95 North, my daughter and I both did a double take as we whizzed past a dark, moody billboard with the image at right. "Was that Tom Brady???"

TOMBRADYONLINE.NET posted a huge -- 400-dpi, 2.3-meg, 3116 x 4301 pixels -- jpg of Tom Brady, unshaven and tousled. It's a Movado watch ad that was printed in GQ. Suitable for printing. (It wouldn't be hard to put it on a black background and crop out the parts you don't feel are necessary.)

Boring:

During Friday's final news conference before Sunday's AFC Championship Game, a group of Colts flashed their natty threads and said all the right things. Defensive end Dwight Freeney set an unofficial record by using the term, "at the end of the day" six times during a 10-minute Q&A. Quarterback Peyton Manning addressed the "legacy'' questions by doing his Opie Taylor bit, shrugging and saying, "That's kind of a deep word for me.''

That was the Indy Star's Bob Kravitz, praising this "Who me, think?" patter (Please, Colts, save us from another Patriots Super Bowl).

Save us from Opie and the Dolts, Tom.

Smashmouth: Newsday's Keyboard Quarterbacks, Time for Peyton to Mann up.

The Onion: Peyton Manning Looking Forward To Ninth Annual Super-Bowl-Watching Party

All 325 pounds of Vince Wilfork dance after beating San Diego, via Matt's Pats Blog.

Kravitz thinks the Patriots are boring, like the Yankees, winning too much. Absorbed elsewhere, he has no idea we've had our hearts in our mouths most games this season, astonished and relieved when they'd pull another one back from the brink.

We have no idea whether the Patriots will beat Indy. We think we can, we think we can...

But we'd really, really like to see Peyton Manning cry in his decaf.