"The New York Giants have yet another Lombardi Trophy but, by all accounts, Indianapolis won the Super Bowl.

This may be the greatest upset of 'em all: Indianapolis, Ind., crushed North Texas in Super Bowl party planning and execution.

This development is rich with irony, and not the good kind of rich.

It was North Texas that originally defeated Indianapolis to host the 2011 Super Bowl. When the NFL gave Indy the Super Bowl, it did so for the season that was threatened by a prolonged lockout.

It really, however, came down to this: one NFL executive bemoaned to me several years ago at the NFL Combine in Indianapolis, "What the hell is there to do here? We already have to come here for the Combine.""