Phew! Glad we all survived that Tim and Mom Tebow commercial.

In what promised to be—if you let yourself get carried away with all the pregame hype of the political kind—the most controversial moment of the game, a lot of folks who spent a lot of bluster over the whole deal must have melted in their chairs under the sheer weight of the nothingness that the ad contained.

Of course, if you have any sense of what Focus on the Family is all about, you know that that all is a whole lot more than abortion. Not that those who were so foresightedly upset about this deal wanted to admit this. They took their stance: what good could anyone who actually includes the choice of life in the pro-choice world have to say about marriage or parenting or overcoming depression or household management or—no way!—sex?

So focused on one aspect of Focus, the detractors lost focus of the bigger picture.

Not so with the New Orleans Saints.

In a game where everything could have hinged on the work of one Peyton Manning, the Saints didn’t let the fact that Manning looked his very best in the opening quarter send them into a tizzy. They stuck to their own game plan—including some layering in of fresh defensive schemes as the game progressed and building their collection of scores on the foundation of their own offensive strengths. And on the backs of that plan and those scores, they steered a course to Super Bowl victory and celebration.

It was a grand game, really. Only one call was questioned, and though it was probably rightly overturned, it didn’t matter in the end. Little we could call a dirty play, just a couple of fairly normal late hits that were properly flagged. No taunting or self-glorifying celebrations. Just two professional teams doing what they are supposed to do: play professionally. Indianapolis was defeated on the scoreboard; they were not outclassed. In that we can all celebrate.

And in the future, maybe as soon as the Winter Olympics or the Daytona 500 coming up this week, we can all remember that the sports we play and the sports we watch are to be enjoyed, not fumed over. Sure, it might put sports talk out of business. But you know, it is just talk.