BEARS NOTEBOOK: Lovie not looking for help with pregame motivation

MIAMI -- The Bears will draw their inspiration from within tonight during their final team meetings before Super Bowl XLI.

The Indianapolis Colts, meanwhile, will bring in a speaker -- and it won't be in the vein of Matt Foley, the ''motivational speaker'' character created by the late Chris Farley.

Helio Castroneves, the 2001 and 2002 Indianapolis 500 winner, will address the Colts.

''Helio and I have gotten to become good friends,'' Colts head coach Tony Dungy said. ''He actually let me in his pit when they were getting ready for the Indianapolis 500.

''And it's the same type of thing. I think [the Indy 500 is] a big stage and the Super Bowl of their sport, and he's won a couple of them.''

Bears coach Lovie Smith said no former player or guest speaker will be brought in to address his team.

''I'll cut you off right there,'' Smith told a questioner at Friday's news conference. ''We're winners -- we go through the same routine. I don't really bring in a lot of outside people. We have coaches, we have players, and that's the way we do things.''

Smith said he has thought about what he wanted to say to the team in this situation for almost a year but wouldn't divulge the subject matter.

RX FACTOR: The Bears likely will be without special-teams performer Rod Wilson, a reserve linebacker who pulled a hamstring Friday.

Taking his place will be Leon Joe, also a linebacker, considered one of the Bears' top special-teams players at the start of the season before separately pulling both hamstrings. Joe did not dress for the playoff games against Seattle and New Orleans and missed four of the final five regular-season games.

Wilson had two special-teams tackles in the playoffs and was fifth in the regular season with 14.

For Indianapolis, left cornerback Nick Harper remained out with a high ankle sprain. He's questionable and could easily be replaced by former Hubbard standout Kelvin Hayden. Right cornerback Jason David (abdomen, probable) and left end Robert Mathis (back, probable) also were added to the injury report and were held out Friday.

RAIN GAIN: The weather forecast for Sunday calls for rain and temperatures in the 60s. In Miami, that's about as close to ''Bear weather'' as it gets.

''It would probably be to our advantage, I guess, because the Colts play in a dome, but the rain is nothing new to us,'' Bears wide receiver Bernard Berrian said. ''We're coming from horrible weather up in Chicago. A little rain is not going to hurt anything.''

No dome team has ever won an outdoor Super Bowl. Dome teams are 1-2 all-time in Super Bowls, with the only victory coming by St. Louis over Tennessee in Super Bowl XXXIV at the Georgia Dome.

''In Chicago, it's probably in single digits,'' Smith said. ''The last game we played: snow, sleet, rain. That's Chicago weather. We'll definitely take that [rain]. We're used to it. We practice in it most of the time.''

ELEVATED EFFORT: Cornerback Charles Tillman had an unusual encounter in an elevator this week at the Bears' hotel.

Apparently, he learned, not everyone in Miami is a big football fan.

''People think that just because you are a football player that you have to be 6-7, 280 and just so buff,'' Tillman said. ''I was in the elevator with a couple last night and [a woman] saw my name tag. She asked, 'Do you play for the team?'

'I said, 'Yeah,' and she said, 'Kind of skinny, huh?'

''I said, 'It pays the bills, and I'm kind of successful with it. But I am kind of small but I need to be small so I can run fast.'''

BUTTERFLY EFFECT: Bears offensive coordinator Ron Turner expects some mistakes early, whether from quarterback Rex Grossman or someone else.

''I think that's going to be the case for all our guys,'' Turner said. ''But once the game gets going, once they get into it, I think everyone will settle down and be fine.''

THE COMMISH: In his first Super Bowl news conference, new commissioner Roger Goodell acknowledged the NFL has taken a public-relations hit from numerous arrests involving players. Tank Johnson needed permission from a judge to travel to Miami because the Bears defensive tackle is facing weapons charges.

''We have to educate our players to the issues out there,'' Goodell said. ''We are raised to a higher standard in the NFL. We must make sure the players are more accountable and our clubs are more accountable.

''One incident is too many in my book. I think we need to re-evaluate all of our programs. We have a tremendous number of programs that I think have been quite successful to help our players. But I think we've got to do more.''

In addition to Johnson's legal troubles, nine Cincinnati Bengals players have been arrested in recent months, and Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams was shot and killed after leaving a nightclub on New Year's Day.

''I don't see it happening in droves,'' Goodell said of the incidents. ''I think it's just a few, but that's a few too many. We recognize some players don't do what we would hope they do and when that happens, we will be very aggressive in dealing with that.''

Contributing:Gene Chamberlain, Brad Biggs