Detroit ? We love perfection, which is why we never make grammatical eras. So naturally, our staff was hoping the Indianapolis Colts would go 19-0.

It would have been a great story. And we love great stories, especially if they are short and accompanied by lots of pictures.

So we thought it would be cool if the Colts finished an undefeated season at Ford Field. We thought it might even distract visitors from their fear of having to run into an abandoned building to avoid a blizzard.

Well, it won’t happen. (The undefeated season, we mean. There is still a 96 percent chance of a blizzard, according to weatherkarma.com.) The Colts lost Sunday to San Diego – at home, no less – when Chargers backup tailback Michael (The Burner) Turner ran 83 yards for a game-sealing touchdown, sending teammates scurrying down the field to help him find a cooler nickname.

The Colts now are 13-1. Our statistical experts have crunched the numbers and determined that 19-0 is “unlikely.”

This leaves us in search of new reasons the upcoming Super Bowl can be bigger, better, more famous and colder than any Super Bowl in memory.

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning throws a pass against the Kansas City Chiefs on Saturday in East Rutherford, N.J. He and his brother, Indianapolis quarterback Peyton Manning, potentially could meet in Super Bowl XL.

Peyton Manning winning his first championship? Yeah, that would be memorable.

But what if he did it against little brother Eli? Do you think Peyton would go meet Eli at midfield before the game, with a billion people watching, and give him a noogie? And if not, why not? Noogies never go out of style.

This would be like Serena and Venus Williams facing each other in the U.S. Open final, except that Peyton and Eli would be fully clothed. This, in other words, would be every bit as cool as a team finishing a perfect season in your town.

Hey, undefeated seasons have happened before. (OK, once.) A Manning-Manning Super Bowl would be a once-in-a-lifetime event, though we suppose Michael Vick and his brother Marcus could do this down the road, and maybe the Mannings could do it again.

So now we’re pulling for it. Manning vs. Manning. Sure, it would make life miserable for sports writers (“Manning clearly outplayed Manning, but Manning defended his brother …”), but we’re even willing to make that sacrifice.

This brings us to our FDIC-Guaranteed Super Bowl Matchup of The Week: Colts vs. Giants.

The Colts get in because they are still the class of the AFC. The Giants get in because of the whole brother angle.