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    Super Bowl?

    in Colts Football

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    I know beating the Bengal's has inspired some new enthusiasm with a lot of us. I keep my hope down just a tad and recall a few short weeks ago the beating that Dallas put on us. But, as with any sport or athlete, the ones that get on a roll and get hot at the right time are the ones that win championships.

     

    I think if we can pull off a little hocus pocus, catch a break or two, and get past Denver and Baltimore is able to knock off New England I like our chances against Baltimore. I'm putting the cart before the horse because I don't think we match up well with Denver. I'm concerned about Denver's defense and most prominently their pass rush. Denver's pass rush will be much much better than Cincinnatti's and even with a line that played better last week its going to be a tough matchup.

    Denver will be tough.  We will have to be running on all cylinders; offense and defense.  But, I believe it can be done.  

    Jim Irsay press conference 3:30 pm EST

    in Colts Football

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    Dare I say I love watching the Ravens play???  I do miss Ray and Ed Reed though.  

     

    I want a good game against Denver....unless we could ever blow a team out.  If we get blown out there will be mass chaos for firings here.... :blueshoe:  :blueshoe:  :blueshoe:

     

    Dare I say I love watching the Ravens play???  I do miss Ray and Ed Reed though.  

     

    I want a good game against Denver....unless we could ever blow a team out.  If we get blown out there will be mass chaos for firings here.... :blueshoe:  :blueshoe:  :blueshoe:

    Yeah, I'll be in the bath during this one, music blaring.  

    My yearly rant about the NFL

    in NFL General

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    The NFL and every other sport needs to ban the ridiculous interviews between halves and post game. Regardless of the sport the questions are always the same, "what's it going to take to come back or hold on to yourlead"?, "What were you feeling when you..."?,How will you handle their so and so in the second half"? You KNOW every coach wants to strangle those people with the canned questions!! The silliest is after a horse race when some poor * is give the task to ride along side the winner and ask "what were you feeling when you knew you had won"? I would love it if Woody Hayes and Schembeckler where in the middle of a cut throat game and have one of those *s get in the face of Woody Hayes and ask "How does it feel to be losing coach"? Then BANG,right in the kisser!

    I hate that too!  And, you can see from the coaches body language and facial expressions that they think it's ridiculous.  And, yet, the stupid questions still flow.  I love when they ask one coach what they think the other team was thinking or how they felt and start pondering the philosophy of why the game is going the way that it is.  SHUT UP!  Let them go coach and deal with their players!!!!  URGH!

    My yearly rant about the NFL

    in NFL General

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    CC1 - It has evolved in all sports.  I don't know if it's necessarily good or bad either.  Just seems less about the sport and more about the merchandising.  And, here I work in advertising....HA!  

    Braveheart - just because something is irritating doesn't mean you stop participating in something you love all together.  There are a lot of things at work that irritate me, but I still drag my butt in every day....

    My yearly rant about the NFL

    in NFL General

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    Before I go into my complaints let me first say that I've been watching the NFL as far back as my memory banks go. Watching the NFL, like in a lot of homes in America, was a Sunday afternoon tradition. Being from the Midwest where we didn't have a true hometown team, the closest team being the Vikings or the Bears, my brothers and I were split between teams. I have 4 brothers and each one of us followed a different team. Bears, Green Bay, Denver and myself I became a Colts fan. I remember watching the team play Oakland in a playoff OT game that would become known as the Ghost to the post game. I was hooked.

     

    It was difficult to follow the team since the team was originally in Baltimore, was very rarely on TV. But I stayed loyal despite following and having a soft spot for other players and teams that were more often on national TV. In 1998 I was able to start watching almost every game with the DIRECTV Sunday ticket. I've stated several times of the last few years how lucky I've been to be able to watch my favorite team during a time when the team has had so much success. Having nearly 40 years of NFL memories I have to admit that the last few seasons have been very frustrating for me to watch. Here's why:

     

    It seems like over the last handful of seasons the NFL has become something that I would avoid watching if it had nothing to do with the Colts. That was never true prior to that point. The NFL has become a glamour show, a Hollywood production. Halftime and Super Bowl pre games have become an event that have been so over done that it borders on the ridiculous. Now, the trend is that the camera crew goes into the post game locker room and broadcasts post game speeches and celebrations by the winning teams. In the frame its hard to miss the taj mahal like dressing rooms that the players are using these days. Money is forked over hand over fist by the fans and the public in these communities in order to build these palaces that these teams use. Something just doesn't sit right with me. First of all, leave the cameras in the hallway, they don't belong in the dressing rooms. What's said and done in there should remain in there and I'm sure coaches and players don't get to truly say what they want because there is a camera recording the whole thing.

     

    The rules have been slanted in favor of the offense, especially the passing game. Many games, especially the playoffs, turn on just a few plays each game.unfortunately the NFL fails to live up to giving the fans pure product. One that everyone can believe in. Each playoff season I watch as the officials invariably enforce the rules differently than they did in the regular season and so many times a call is blown that costs a team in a big way, quite possibly costing them the game. Since the NFL has become a game that games are won and lost on the turn of just a few plays either way this cannot be disputed. It has to change.

     

    I miss the days of teams playing in the elements, playing because they love the game, they aren't scripting their next interview and dressing for games in places that are more like showpieces than a locker room. It's become a Hollywood job. Rant over

     

    Now, GO COLTS!

    I completely agree.  It's because so much money started funneling into the sport that it's now a marketing show.  They are having superstars pay to sing at halftime of the superbowl.  Give me a break.  I work in radio so I see enough of the showmanship/show me the money/pay to play crap as it is.   I agree that it's become less about a sport and more about selling product and showcasing the beautiful.

     

    We watched a sports news show with Dez Bryant in his home awhile back.  They wanted to know something the typical fan wouldn't know about him.  He said, "People probably wouldn't know this.  But, I like rap and hip hop.  And, I have a huge collection of tennis shoes."  REALLY?  WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED?????  And this is sporting news?  This is the focus?

     

    I can go backstage at a concert to see someone who is an a** and doesn't really care about their trade and the typical fan.  Unfortunately, music/tv/movies have all filtered over to the NFL and other sports for that matter.  I miss the old days of watching the game with less glitter, and laying on the floor playing with the electronic NFL air-operated game with the tiny plastic football that popped out when the little players toppled over.

    One play better?

    in Colts Football

    Posted

    I'm not sure what game this writer was watching, but the Colts were way more than one play better than the Bengals.  It really amazes me that people get paid to write this stuff, and unfortunately for those who didn't see the game and this may be their only take away from it, it really gives them no idea just how much the Colts whipped up on the Bengals again (especially in the 2nd half)

     

    http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/colts-one-play-better-than-bengals-and-thats-enough/ar-BBhvVAC?ocid=TSHDHP

    Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad writers out there.....maybe a career change is in order....

    We shut out the Bengals mid season

    in Colts Football

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    Thanks for the reminder.    I'm almost positive here no one remembers that.

     

    But, the fact is, they're not the same Bengals.    They'll have AJ Green who was out hurt then.   And they've now worked Hill in at RB, and he'll attack our middle.    Think what Gray did to us in the New England game.

     

    I think we'll win because Andy Dalton is.....   Andy Dalton,  and the Colts have Andrew Luck.

     

    But this doesn't project to be an easy win.....

    It WON'T be an easy win.  But, a win is possible if we fight hard and have the right players in the right postions.

    Brian billick has colts as one and done.

    in Colts Football

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    Turns out it was no big deal. Just some guys with the local neighborhood association complaining about the condition of my yard. Apparently I'm only allowed to have one rusty, broken down vehicle parked in my frontyard, and some other blah blah blah about a tire fire that's been burning in my backyard for the last 3 years. Some garbledygook about "poisonous gasses" and "significant health risks". 

     

    Nothing that slamming the front door couldn't solve. I don't know what they're talking about. My neighbors all like me, because I force them to with violence. 

     

    Turns out it was no big deal. Just some guys with the local neighborhood association complaining about the condition of my yard. Apparently I'm only allowed to have one rusty, broken down vehicle parked in my frontyard, and some other blah blah blah about a tire fire that's been burning in my backyard for the last 3 years. Some garbledygook about "poisonous gasses" and "significant health risks". 

     

    Nothing that slamming the front door couldn't solve. I don't know what they're talking about. My neighbors all like me, because I force them to with violence. 

    We get those neighborhood association letters all the time.  Right to the trash........

    Brian billick has colts as one and done.

    in Colts Football

    Posted

    He is nothing more than a TV character, fictional. Whatever it is that he wanted his career to represent, whatever it is he's done in his career beforehand, he has become nothing more than a fictional TV character with no more merit than the stuttering ramblings of Porky Pig. 

     

    At least I wish he was a cartoon character. That way, someone could shove dynamite in his britches and blow his mouth to the back of his head without me feeling guilty about the explosion. 

    What's on the side of that wooden box?  Looks like Acme.  There goes the RoadRunner.  Oops!  Skip is foiled again.  Would make a great cartoon.  I miss those Acme days....

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