Joe Zerr sits at his table, his Bears beanie hat making him unique amongst the Redskins, Steelers and Giants apparel scattered around the half-empty tables at the Sports Café.

The Super Bowl is still in the first half, and nobody seems to care. It's a Midwesterner's game, the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears, and most fans of those teams stayed in the warm confines of their own apartments.

The bar was devoid of Indianapolis attire, the colors of the eventual winners, but every now and again there would be a cheer that seemed to be in the Colts' favor.

When Bears quarterback Rex Grossman fell down for a sack, Zerr (graduate - nuclear engineering), noticed a few claps.

"They could just have a bet," Zerr said of the clapping spectators, " 'I bet you five dollars that Rex Grossman

just falls down right on his [butt], right now. Yes!' "

As the game headed into the fourth quarter, and the Bears were already losing to the Colts, senior Dave Walters walked into the bar with his No. 33 Charles Tillman jersey.

"Let's go Bears, man," Zerr said, getting a high-five from Walters (senior - industrial engineering). Now there were two Bears fans.

Only a few minutes later, Walters hid his head in a blue hoodie as Indianapolis beat Chicago, 29-17. Zerr folded his beanie over the entirety of his head, while Robert Schmitt, his friend who drove up from Pittsburgh just to watch the game with Zerr and root for the Colts -- even though he is a Giants fan -- gave him a little razing.

When Indianapolis kick returner Terrence Wilkins brought back kicks, it was Schmitt who could have been the only one saying, "Go!"

"I've felt better," Zerr said. "There is always next year. I don't know ... I've got nothing. Rex Grossman did what he had to do to lose the game for them."

Surrounding Zerr's table was a less-than-somber atmosphere, but there wasn't exactly hooting and hollering either.

With 13:46 remaining in the third quarter, former Penn State kicker Robbie Gould lined up for a 44-yard field goal and cheers rose from the inattentive crowd.

"We are ... Penn State," one student yelled. Whistling and shouting of "Yeah, Robbie. Whoo!" ensued.

As Gould made the kick, Zerr noticed that people actually seemed to be following what was going on. Zerr remembered Gould from his days as an undergraduate student at Penn State. He always thought, "Give me a free education, I'll go out and miss field goals for you."

"Bears and Colts fans, unite," Zerr said. "Come together for K-Fed."

It was the moment they had all been waiting for, the much-anticipated Kevin Federline Super Bowl commercial. In the end, it definitely wasn't the game that was worth cheering about, Zerr and his friends said.

"It's a Midwestern Super Bowl, so I didn't expect many people to care, from our area," Walters said. "I was extremely excited, pumped. It upsets me, regardless."