MG partner Scott Goldman's home newspaper, The Indianapolis Star, will be busy in the coming two weeks as it ramps up for the Super Bowl now that the Colts are headed to Miami to face the Chicago Bears. The city certainly seems jazzed that Indy's team made it so far.

But we're more jazzed that Goldman will be pitting his design talents against Steve Cavendish at the Chicago Tribune, which will also certainly be rolling out all the stops for the Bears' first appearance at the Super Bowl after a 21-year drought. The last time the Bears made it, Mike Ditka was the coach and they had the bravado to record "The Super Bowl Shuffle" (which must be making its way out on YouTube about now)!

About that rivalry: Goldman is an assistant managing editor at the Star and Cavendish is graphics editor at the Trib, but these guys have history.

Turning on the way-back machine ourselves, we're thinking of when Goldman and Cavendish used to be Sports department colleagues at none other than The Washington Post, creating some of that paper's most-awarded pages. Watching their work, always a testament to elegance and the grace of the games they were covering, was a real treat. And that's why we're excited now.

To see these two visual journalism friends face off on such a big Midwest event, well, let's just say we won't all be watching Peyton Manning and Rex Grossman! And has anyone else noticed the similarity in championship bunting at both papers? Great minds, folks!

-Signed: Excited onlookers on the MG team

Check out the good folks at www.foureyedmonsters.com and see how these two filmmakers are great collaborators. There's a good feed of video podcasting on their site where they explore visual language, the nature of storytelling and all sorts of instructive stuff for anyone who seeks to make better narrative.

And if their film has not come to your city, go request it!