Posted on 02/07/2016 7:52:03 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Betting public overwhelmingly had Carolina. Media steered peo people to wrong side. Even with replay that showed a clear catch the officials couldn’t get the call right for the team that the casino industry wanted to see lose.
There was a football game on yesterday?
Why couldn’t Kubiak and Phillips produce a team like that when they were here (with the Texans)? I suspect the answer is our crappy general manager. I wonder how Kubiak will do if Peyton retires and he has to coach a less than top tier quarterback - like he had here.
By the numbers Manning was probably the worst quarterback in the league, and they won it all. I think the last two bronco superbowls hold a lesson for teams. They don’t need to overspend on quarterbacks. Just get a well rounded team.
Peyton is the reason that Colts Fans in general are some of the "football" smartest fan base in the NFL. All those years of trying to keep up with what the hell was going on in an offense forced football fans to learn a bit more about offenses and defenses.
I know all stadiums now get much quieter when the home team is on offense. But back when the Colts played in the RCA Dome, I will never forget the head splitting noise of the fans in that (now tiny) stadium when on defense and the creepy silence when they went on offense. People on cell phones where hushed by neighboring fans and people whispered. It was the worlds larges library on offense. And you could hear Peyton calling audibls and the cadence throughout the whole stadium. He started that.
I am honored that one of the greats played for us and I saw him in his prime. It hit me what a big deal that was for him watching him in his first season in Denver when he would frantically try to hush is home team crowd. I think the fans thought it was part of his had signals. But Colts fans knew what that meant. "Shut up! I'm trying to work here!"
I do hope he retires. Great player and a great man. All class and character.
I thought the opposite and the announcers got it wrong. Here's why. You will have to watch it again. His hand WAS under the ball. But the front thrid of the ball comes in contact with the ground even whith his hand under it. No problem UNLESS the ball wiggles or bobbles following the touch of the ground. As he rolls over, you will see the ball still wiggling and bobbling a bit and he has the ball pressed between his right elbow and hip.
It was right to challenge the call and it certainly could have gone either way. But based on the original call (and you could see why they made it that way), there wasn't enouh to probe control all the way through the catch.
I don't think anyone made an argument for Peyton playing a great game. He struggled for most of the season and even had to be benched. The overwhelming sentiment is how much of a team win it was for the Broncos. Peyton was one of the first to give his team and the defense all the credit.
The Colts and Colts fans hated to lose Peyton. BUT, unlike most of the folks that had an opinion about it across the NFL, Colts Fans, especially in Indy, understood the reason in made good business sense. The Colts had a roster of hall of aging Hall of Famers. It was an expensive roster. We had a number one draft pick and wouldn’t be able to afford Luck and Peyton and ..... you get the idea. The team needed to retool and rebuild. We had new coaches, new GM, etc. Remember the Packers the last few years of Favre’s career? The team was engineered around Brett but the game had moved on from his famous and successful gunslinger style.
This is precisely why you still see the respect and admiration of Peyton in Colts country (along with his being such a class act). If you ever met him, you’d like him.
You are so right. That is why they have been a 7-9, 9-7 team these past few years. This year they go hot and put the pieces together but last nights effort was what I was expecting out him when they played my Seahawks in the Divisional game. He has poor mechanics and once he starts getting stuck in a game he becomes more erratic.
Lots of parallels with the gov't, eh?
(I just could not resist!)
Seriously, though, in either case, one of the problems is that when you get too many complex "rules", rarer is the "official" who can run the game well or properly enforce all the rules.
Given the job NFL refs are tasked with, I think they actually do pretty well, most of the time.
Yes..that's exactly what has happened. The Referees make bad calls based on an interpretation of an abundance of bad rules.
Nascar did the same thing and changed the nature of the racing. It wasn't the best of the best of the Saturday Night racers, it became about the personalities.
“If this is it”
A tribute to Peyton Manning
from
Russell Wilson
Quarterback / Seattle Seahawks
http://www.theplayerstribune.com/russell-wilson-peyton-manning-superbowl/
The SuperBowl Half-time show was a tribute to Black Power, however, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panthers, who succeeded about as well as the Carolina Panthers. Beyonce’s fake cartridge belt may have contained a few actual cartridges, minus their primers. The large X that the 50 black women in paramilitary uniforms and black berets formed, of course, honored Malcolm X, the racist white-hater. Was the conventional US media silent on this? Then go read the British press!
The SuperBowl Half-time show was a tribute to Black Power, however, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Black Panthers, who succeeded about as well as the Carolina Panthers. Beyonce’s fake cartridge belt may have contained a few actual cartridges, minus their primers. The large X that the 50 black women in paramilitary uniforms and black berets formed, of course, honored Malcolm X, the racist white-hater. Was the conventional US media silent on this? Then go read the British press!
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