It’s the curse of leaving Baltimore under cover of darkness in 1984, as well as taking the name, team records and memorabilia which should have stayed with the city. Indy, get set for a Red Sox-like drought.
HA!
I was hoping this one would stay buried, but hey, I am glad I was wrong- I’m a fan of both, I just didn’t see it happening, especially after the Jacksonville game.
And they stopped being unable to stop the run right around the time of my post. Good for them. Since my Bills never won the big prize, Peyton’s Colts are probably my favorite Super Bowl winner in my lifetime.
Whew. Saved myself in post #25.
To win the SB you have to be good and lucky. All props go to Indy for winning, but let’s face it: the Pats took out the most dangerous team in the AFC. Indy won ugly at Baltimore with five FGs. Then the Pats had Caldwell drop easy passes and Brady throws an uncharacteristic pick in the AFC champ game.
Indy played smart and made few mistakes throughout the playoffs. They’re not even the best Indy team in the past few years, which makes the victory all that more impressive. I’m glad to tip my hat to Dungy. Seems like a legitimately good guy, and after losing his son a few years back, he showed a lot of dignity dealing with that loss. Nice guy who deserved to finish first.
Manning had a pretty nondescript game, but it was better than Grossman’s game and good enough to win. The question is, will we see more Manning commercials or less?
You know, that never actually happened before 1996, ever, in any sport, IIRC. There was not a precedence for it.
Browns fans are rather proud that we were the first team to fight a league in this way and win.
This reminds me of what Mike Greenberg has been hammering home for the past month. Peyton’s Superbowl win doesn’t show that all the doubters were idiots. The critics raised legitimate questions. This Superbowl win was Peyton answering those questions.
Greeney, of course, was a Peyton critic, so he’s been pre-emptively defending himself with these rants. But his point is still valid both about Peyton and the Colts’ porous run defense.
To wit: You can’t win the Superbowl with the 6th worst run defense in history. They answered that criticism by tightening up the run defense and holding some of the league’s best running backs in check.
If Peyton doesn’t win another, his critics will be on him for “only” winning one, no doubt.
I personally know Jake Scott, the Colts right guard, and I asked him about this comment. None of the linemen took it as insulting. What he actually said was “We had some protection problems,” taking some of the blame because it is his duty to shift protections, etc.
Not exactly. The baseball team now known as the Baltimore Orioles abandoned its legacy as the St. Louis Browns when the club moved in the 1950s.