This is when expletives are ideal for their ability to express frustration.

Two weeks of anticipation have boiled down to frustration and disappointment.

My bank account is more than $100 lighter after my Super Bowl party, my place is a mess, and my voice is barely hanging on.

My Urlacher jersey has a stain on it, I cut my finger giving high-fives during Devin Hester’s kick-off return touchdown, and did I mention I lost my voice?

Plus the disgust I’m feeling isn’t going away any time soon. For the next week, I’ll have to watch Colts players holding the trophy Chicago wanted so much more. And highlights of Bears players wondering what just happened.

If it wasn’t cold enough in Illinois, it just got a little colder.

So was it worth it? Every second of it.

Sunday’s game between the Bears and the Colts was something so much more than a game.

It was two classy organizations showing the nation what the Super Bowl should be about.

Instead of two weeks of players jawing and trash-talking, you had coaches who actually rooted for each other. There’s something sports could use a little more of.

For Bears fans, it was 21 years of waiting finally answered.

Sure, yeah, it was great when the White Sox won the World Series. But while the city embraced the Sox, Chicago always has and always will be a football town.

If there was ever a city that needed a season like 2006, it was the City of Broad Shoulders. I can only hope this season is remembered for how much excitement it brought back to the city and not for just how it ended.

For Colts fans, it is the final destination of a trip that looked like it could never have a happy ending.

Tony Dungy and Peyton Manning, two of the classiest men in the game, finally got the ring they both so deserved. As a die-hard Bears fan, I have to say the pain of losing is softened knowing that those two will be crowned.

And for NIU fans, it was rooting for alumnus Ryan Diem, who became the second former Huskie to get a Super Bowl ring.

Diem went down in the second quarter with a right ankle sprain, but not before he paved the way for a Dominic Rhodes touchdown. The alumnus wears his school pride on his right arm, and Huskie fans should be equally proud of him.

Yes, the game didn’t end how anyone in Chicago wanted. But Sunday’s game was still a great game despite the fact that the Bears lost.

Of course, tell that to my voice.