President Barack Obama, while rooting for the New Orleans Saints in the Super Bowl today, allows that the Indianapolis Colts "have to be favored.''
"I think the Colts probably have to be favored, mainly because they have the best quarterback in history. Peyton Manning is unbelievable,'' the president said in a pre-game interview just now with CBS News. "I do have a soft spot in my heart for New Orleans, mainly because of what that town has gone through....
"The Colts have to be favored,'' he said, confessing that he could be bearing a grudge in today's match: "One other factor that I have to confess here -- when my Bears went to the Super Bowl several years ago, it was the Colts that beat them.''
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