Hello football fans! I would be remiss and lose my status as a jock/athlete if I did not write a piece on the just concluded Super Bowl 44. I'm in South Florida and was here on the night of the game but chose not to fork out the $1,600 they were asking for tickets. I just couldn't justify that in a recession! But it was an awesome game, which you will hear about after the top 20.

Clawing its way up to #1 is Empire State of Mind by Jay Z and Alicia Keys, a popular track with catchy lyrics. Up to #2 it's Baby By Me by 50 Cent featuring Ne-Yo. Falling to #3 it's Bad Habits by Maxwell, a very smooth ballad. Up to #4 is I Invented Sex by Trey Songs featuring Drake. Improving to #5 is Money To Blow by Birdman featuring L'il Wayne and Drake.

Slipping to #6 is Whitney Houston's monster hit Million Dollar Bill. The rest of the CD is good but I haven't seen many of the tracks in the charts, which isn't a good sign.

Slipping to #7 is Make Me by Janet Jackson. Making a huge jump to #8 is It Kills Me by Melanie Fiona, one of the hottest love songs of the moment.

In the #9 spot is Run This Town by Jay Z, Rihanna and Kanye West. Improving to #10 is Say Aah by Trey Songz featuring Fabolous, a former essential new track. Tumbling to #11 is Boom Boom Pow, the kicking dance/pop anthem by Black Eyed Peas.

Falling to #12 is Mary Mary with God In Me. Up to #13 is How Low by Ludacris, a huge track featuring the dirty south sound catchy lyrics. Improving to #14 is Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart by Alicia Keys.

Improving to #15 is Snoop Dogg's latest rap anthem, I Wanna Rock, probably the hottest rap track on the circuit. Back to ballads we go at #16, with Sex Therapy by Robin Thicke. Slipping to #17 is Papers by Usher.

Now, this week's essential new joint. In at #18 is Why Don't You Love Me by Beyonce. This is just another hit from the hottest R&B artist in the game.

New at #19 is Hard by Rihanna. Finally, new at #20 its Bedrock by Young Money featuring Lloyd.

Now back to this week's word – Super Bowl 44. I was torn this year when deciding the team I would support. Any true football fan will tell you that you always root for the team that represents your conference; meaning I was supposed to be supporting the Indianapolis Colts, since I'm a Miami Dolphins fan.

There's another reason I should have supported the Colts. They have a black head coach; Jim Caldwell, the protégé of Tony Dunghy who was the first black coach to win a Super Bowl. The reason I'm supposed to support the black coach is because professional sports head coaching jobs all over the world is an old white boys network, where people of colour are still excluded and not even considered as possible candidates, just because of their colour, even when they and others like them have proven themselves!

My pet peeve is that professional sports just rehires and rotates the same good old boys even after they don't succeed, rather than giving a brother a chance.

Even today, when two black coaches have won Super Bowls and two others have made it to the Super Bowl as head coaches, many teams will not seriously consider black coaches, even though the NFL implemented a rule that coaches must interview at least one minority candidate.

However, in spite of all the reasons I should have supported the Colts, I found myself rooting for the Saints this year, an NFC team with a good old boy white coach, Sean Payton. Here's why.

I am not the biggest fan of Peyton Manning! He is one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game but in spite of all his accomplishments, I still think that he has had it easier than many other quarterbacks and hasn't had to face the same kind of adversity, injuries and misfortune of players like Tom Brady and Drew Brees. Granted I think he is smarter than most other quarterbacks who have played the position but:

¦ He comes from good QB pedigree as the son of Archie Manning

¦ He grew up around the game and was groomed for greatness

¦ He was always pushed and heralded as the great one

¦ The media always gives him a pass and the benefit of the doubt

¦ He never, never gets sacked (some of that is his brilliance but he has had the best protection of any QB, ever)

¦ I wanted to see what Manning would do if he had to deal with a bit of adversity and if he could be as brilliant after being sacked and smacked around

¦ I prefer Tom Brady and Drew Brees, who had to wait, have had career threatening injuries and were not just handed the keys to the car as was the case with Manning

¦ The Media puts Manning in the same category as Brady, even though Brady has won three rings out of four to Manning's one out of two. The comparison is unfair and diminishes Brady's accomplishments.

Also, Drew Brees was the QB for my fantasy team, the Harris' Bay Heat, in the Bermuda Football Fanatics League, who took me all the way to our Super Bowl, which I lost to my brother's team. Then there's the whole New Orleans/Katrina thing; with the Haiti situation, the world has forgotten about New Orleans whilst so many people there are still poor and struggling.

Then there's Drew Brees' story; getting the career threatening shoulder injury; getting cut from San Diego and overlooked by many teams, including my own Dolphins. So I'm thinking I know a good deal about American Football and for a host of reasons, I supported Drew Brees and the Saints.

I have to give the Saints props. They earned their Lombardi trophy. They outplayed and outcoached the Colts in every way. They had a better game plan, executed it and were very deserving.

Hopefully this generates some income, wealth and economic recovery for New Orleans and its people. It was an awesome game, probably one of the better Super Bowls, with the hightest ratings ever.

Let's hope Super Bowl 45 is as good. Peace ... DJLT.