Here at MackOnSports.com, we had a very special treat recently.  We had the esteemed privilege of getting an exclusive interview with karma.  Here is what he had to say.

MoS:  Welcome to Indianapolis.  It’s nice of you to stop by.
Karma:  No problem.  It was a logical place to stop on my way to Miami.

MoS:  Miami?  Do you mean the Super Bowl?
Karma:  Yes I do.  You don’t think think they can have this Super Bowl without me, do you?

MoS:  I guess not.  Besides, you are on some kind of roll, huh?  Nice work over conference championship weekend, my friend.  That was truly an epic performance.
Karma:  Well, it started out kind of tough.  I had my eye on the Colts, and then, as soon as Jets got down by 3 points and Rex Ryan started to panic, I just had to step in.  What a horrible coaching decision — easily the worst one I saw the entire year.  I feel bad for all the second-guessing of Rex in the national media, though.

MoS:  Maybe you have been busy in other parts of the globe, but there had been no second-guessing at all.  No one outside of New York City has had anything to say about it.
Karma:  What?  Are you kidding me?  Man, that chaps my ass!  I jumped all over Ryan and decided to ride him down in flames.  How does no one know that I made him blow that game?

MoS:  Everyone is just talking about how good the Colts are.
Karma:  Ha ha.  They are one heck of a team.  Not sure it’s going to matter in Miami, though. [grins]

MoS:  Whatever do you mean?
Karma:  Oh, just a feeling.  You know that no team that ever thumbed their nose at the process of qualifying for the playoffs has ever gone on to win the Super Bowl, right?

MoS:  Oh, yes.  I am definitely aware of that, but this Colts team seems to be impervious to your efforts.  I mean, just about every opponent of theirs has choked the game away in some fashion this year.  Then, the one team that should have been poised for karmic revenge, the Jets, ends up choking the game away too, just like everyone else.  I have my doubts that anyone can beat the good luck the Colts seem to be having this year.
Karma:  Well, it WAS kind of a tough call for me, but I could not resist Rex Ryan.  Plus, I had decided that I was going after Brett Favre and Brad Childress with everything I had…and if the Jets ended up in the crossfire, so be it.  Let’s not forget the team that enabled that absolutely atrocious "you can’t play for anyone in the NFC North for one year" move by the Packers.  Was there anyone surprised that Favre ended up with the Vikings, his first choice all along, one year later?  That really cannot happen without the Jets really pissing me off along the way, you know.  I was really planning on leaving them alone, and giving the Colts what they have deserved ever since Week 16, but then Rex Ryan started to panic and I could not help myself.

MoS:  What a shame that the Colts are getting all the credit for that one.  Clearly an oversight.  What about the Vikings and Saints?  You didn’t have anything to do with that one, did you?  [laughs out loud] Man, I really thought I could make it through that one with a straight face.
Karma:  [Grinning from ear to ear] To quote a brilliant writer I once knew — whatever do you mean?

MoS:  Oh, I don’t know — 6 fumbles, 3 of them lost, and 2 INTs…rookie kicker looking like Adam Vinatieri circa January 2002…it kind of looks to me like it had your fingerprints all over it.
Karma:  Well, modesty prevents me from taking too much credit, but I will say that I did not intercede at all on the last play from scrimmage for the Vikings offense – the 12-men-in-the-huddle call was just a shortcoming in the Vikings coaching staff (big surprise, huh) and the last throw, well that was just Brett being Brett.  It’s his signature move; it is what he has done with greater skill and consistency than anyone in the history of the league — throwing the ball to the wrong team.

MoS:  What about all those fumbles?  Surely you had something to do with that, right?
Karma:  I can neither confirm nor deny anything along those lines, but I will say this – thank goodness for Brett Favre.  I had given up on the Saints by that point.  I believe that my exact words were: "if you STILL can’t win with all these damn fumbles I have given you, then you deserve to lose!"  I mean…it appeared that the Saints defense did an excellent job getting in good position and going for the ball while tackling…[laughs out loud]  Now it is my turn…just like you, I thought I could make it through that statement with a straight face.  I was incorrect.

MoS:  Fair enough.  Happens to the best of us.  So, do you have anything planned for the Super Bowl that we should be aware of?
Karma:  Well, I will not say that I have anything planned, and I will not say that I do not have anything planned, but there is one team that is playing for an entire city that got kicked in the teeth by a natural disaster of biblical proportions just a few short years ago, and the other team decided to actively interfere with the playoff process in the NFL.  It certainly would appear that I have an opportunity to get involved once again.

MoS:  Yes, but you have had a slightly up-and-down record in Super Bowls lately.  I understand the Pats-Giants and David Tyree, but what about the Steelers last year?  I mean, didn’t they break every rule in the book, and didn’t they have 3 separate players commit eject-able plays during the first 3 quarters?  How could you misfire on that one?
Karma:  That game turned out as I had planned.  Kurt Warner told his children that he would buy them a puppy if the Cardinals won the NFC Championship.  Well, he reneged on that promise.  Breaking a promise to a child trumps anything the Steelers did, or could do, during the course of that game.

MoS:  What about the Colts-Bears game a few years ago?
Karma:  Lovie Smith made a conscious decision to ride Rex Grossman in that game.  It really was out of my hands after that.  I liked the fact that, as he did so many times before, Tony Dungy did such a poor job preparing his team that they gave up an opening kickoff touchdown to the only player on the Bears that was capable of hurting the Colts at all.  That really was a classic move by Tony.  Truly reassuring.  I will miss him coaching in the NFL.  The lack of preparedness of his teams in the biggest games was one of the only constants in an ever-changing world.  While he is truly an amazing man away from football, it’s kind of tough to get past all the playoff futility he experienced as a coach.

MoS:  So, I have to get back to talking about this year.  What can you tell us about the game?
Karma:  Well, I can’t really say anything prior to the game, but I can guarantee that if you find me celebrating in the wee hours of Monday morning, I will say but 4 words:  Ain’t I a bitch?

MoS:  Celebrating in the wee hours?  Are you talking about Bourbon Street?
Karma:  [Smiles]  This interview is over.

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