Game 5: James Monroe vs. Super Bowl V

Wait a minute -- is that the Baltimore Colts representing the American Football Conference? Yessiree. In this first official post-merger season, the Colts, Browns and Steelers slid over from the NFL to the new AFC, as the unified league was split into two conferences and six divisions. That allowed two incumbent NFL teams, the Colts and Cowboys, to play each other in Super Bowl V in Miami.

It was an exciting game, if you go by the final five seconds, when rookie Colts kicker Jim O'Brien nailed a 32-yard field goal to win it, 16-13. The Colts had trailed 10-6 at the half, so it was an admirable comeback. But the game had so many messed-up plays critics called it the "Blunder Bowl." There were 11 turnovers. Bubba Smith supposedly refused to wear his ring, because the game was such a disaster.

Against such a clunker, you'd think James Monroe would cruise easily to victory. Not so fast! Yes, he's James Monroe of the Monroe Doctrine, the famous "get off my cloud" warning to other nations. Not many people leave doctrines as legacies. But we hear the Doc was actually written by John Quincy Adams. (JQA was so upset that Monroe took the credit, he supposedly refused to wear his Monroe Doctrine ring.)

So who wins? Despite not really authoring his own Doctrine, Monroe is universally considered a Top 20 President. Against a Blunder Bowl? We have to go with Ro.

SCORE AFTER THIS MATCH-UP: Presidents 4, Super Bowls 1.

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