I never thought I’d live to see the day that the Saints made it to the Super Bowl. Being from Louisiana, I now have a conundrum. It has always been easy to root for both the Mannings and the Saints because there was never a chance the Saints would be good enough to make it to the Super Bowl.
Until today.
Conundrums, conundrums.
Consider this an open thread.
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The Mannings already got theirs
thurman Monday, January 25th at 12:57AM EDT (link)No shame in rooting for the Saints
I’m from Indy and have been watching the Saints all year with a friend from NOLA
I actually asked him today about how revered the Mannings are in NOLA, I had no idea until today
The Saints are a great team this year– it would be huge for the city if they won
Nice to see two classy, exciting teams in the big game
Should be an entertaining matchup
I think even Archie will be rooting against his son...
Erick Brockway (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 1:01AM EDT (link)…secretly, of course.
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speciallist (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 1:23AM EDT (link)DRINK!!
when does Detroit "deserve" all the money, time, attention, etc...
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 12:07PM EDT (link)I am beyond tired frankly of the continued piling on of EVERYTHING that gets directed to NO because it allows Liberals to keep the Katrina rebuild narrative. Funneling everything from Superbowls to Table-Tennis tournaments to NOLA in the name of helping the rebuild.
WHEN does Detroit get to have its Nationally recognized mobilization for recovery to RECOVER FROM DECADES OF THE UN-NATURAL DISASTER OF LIBERALISM THAT DESTROYED IT?!?!? Like LA it was decades of mismanagement, decay, neglect, waste, fraud, abuse, outright thievery, etc, of Liberalism that added to all the other “outside” forces/failings.
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piratecoastbucs Monday, January 25th at 1:02AM EDT (link)I’m sorry, but as an outsider with absolutely no preference as to who won I can objectively say that the refs gave that game to New Orleans. IT made me sick as a football fan. Granted Minn. gave them the ball 5 times, the refs all but handed the Saints the game in OT. Ridiculous. It’s as if the NFL was chomping at the bit to shove a feel good story down our throats.
Who can’t wait for 2 weeks of Hurricane Katrina?!?
I can…. I will not be watching at all until kickoff 2 weeks from now…
I predict Colts by at least 24 pts.. (Final Score: IND 38, NO 10)
With 5 Viking turnovers, the refs didn't have to help the Saints.
Achance (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 1:11AM EDT (link)I think some things went the Saints way that maybe shouldn’t have and the NFL and the media definitely love the narative and the opportunity to shove the Katrina myth in our faces again, but Minnesota lost that game all by themselves.
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Yech to the "Officiating"
LRC96 Monday, January 25th at 2:35AM EDT (link)Total agreement.
Pick of Indy by 21–only after the first quarter and a half. Game will be “done” by halftime. The rest’ll be gravy.
How did the refs give the game to the Saints in OT?
bk (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 5:11AM EDT (link)Being raised in NOLA I admit to being biased, but I try to be open-minded.
Are you talking about the reception that they reviewed to see if it hit the ground? At first I thought it had, but then one of the angles made it look like his hand was under the ball the whole time so it wasn’t clear that the ball actually did touch the ground. That seemed to be one of those plays where however they ruled it on the field would have stood because you couldn’t tell for sure one way or the other from the reviews.
Minn Vikings lost. Young team, poor ball handling. If not for Brett they'd been home anyway.
archer52 Monday, January 25th at 9:18AM EDT (link)The biggest disappointment I had was seeing Favre throw that late interception trying to get a few more yards. Typical Favre and the reason many like to blame him. (My greatest joy this year was watching him beat Green Bay twice.)
I’ve always been a fan of men doing things beyond what other men said they should do. Minnesota was a good fit for him. A young team, great talent, but no leader, no one able to make the big throw. I believe, his last interception was another example of him trying to fix what other men felt, incorrectly, was a good decision. They were moving the ball all over NO when they got to the thirty then suddenly it was TWO runs? A simple button hook or quick slant would have cut ten more yards off that distance. Brett followed orders, then tried to save the game, as he has done in several this year. Sadly, people will remember his bad throw several years ago against the Giants and say, “See this is why Favre is no good.” They will forget his last second throw into the end zone on a game that was lost. Or his almost entire season of pinpoint accuracy. They will also forget some of the young players having a horrible game of ball handling. You could see they were so excited to be there they forgot how to play football, much to the dismay of Favre, who had seen this happen far too often.
I’m glad NO is in. I like their team. I’m glad the Colts are in. I like Peyton. But deep inside, as an older guy told by lesser young men that my time had passed, I really wanted to see Brett stick a finger in “their” eyes one more time. Just like I had to, more than once.
Brett was one game and a couple of plays short of being the punch line of that famous joke about the two bulls, one young and one old, who decided to go down into the valley and have relations with the cows in the pasture. The young one said, “Let’s run down and take a cow!” The old bull said, “How about let’s WALK down and take them all.”
One game, a couple of fumbles, bad play calling, and a young team. Sometimes being good at what you do can’t overcome all of the pitfalls. No matter how big a bull you are.
Maybe next year.
There's got to be chunks of that game Favre doesn't even remember.
Achance (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 10:13AM EDT (link)The Saint’s played hardball with him and went at him from the first snap. His line couldn’t protect him adequately and he had to throw because they couldn’t run effectively. That’s a prescription for getting a quarterback’s brains beaten out and for lots of bad throws and picks. There were several forced throws that only luck prevented from being picks.
Favre said in one of his interviews that the reason for having much fewer INTs this year was that he had managed to stop trying to do too much. The fumbles and the relatively ineffective O-line play caused him to try to do too much and that last throw probably cost him going to the SB. It would have been a long FG, but Longwell at least would have had a shot.
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The Vikings lost but the Saints lost my respect.
shadowtax (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 12:18PM EDT (link)I don’t argue against Brett Favre blowing it with the INT or the irritating officiating in OT. I thought that the Saints DEF was playing dirty.
There was the deserved roughing call when the defender body slammed Favre when he was already going down. I don’t know why Troy Aiken thought that was fair. It was like he was spiking the ball after the touchdown.
A little later there was a missed call when Favre got clocked after the ball was release. The refs were too busy calling pass interference downfield to notice.
Then there was the the helmet launch at Favre’s legs when he was already wrapped up. If the NFL is going to have a Brady rule, you need to call it for the geriatric quarterbacks too.
Again, I won’t really argue with the result. The Vikings could have won.
Go Colts.
they were borderline
bk (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 12:36PM EDT (link)The body slam gets called all the time, so I don’t know what Aikman was griping about. Yeah Favre might have been falling back already, but the Saints guy left his feet and drove him down. Wait, it gets called ALMOST all the time, because in the Saints OT drive someone (Edwards I think) did the exact same thing to Brees – no call. It was on the play where def holding was called against the Vikes.
I agree it should have been a penalty on the play where Favre hurt his ankle. Brees nearly got a hyperextended knee last week when hit low like that, and he wasn’t even tied up with someone else. I don’t know that I’d call it a “helmet launch” but it should have been a penalty.
As others have said, it wasn’t the best played game of all time, but it was certainly exciting as it had as many ebbs and flows as I can ever recall seeing.
Bullcrap. Favre snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Steve Maley (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 9:57AM EDT (link)Face it, it was a stupid throw. Poor, poor Brett.
Or blame the 12th man in the huddle. The Vikings made plenty of mistakes.
Or, what, you would prefer the game be decided on a booth-directed replay of a spot?
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Aaron Gardner (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 10:00AM EDT (link)But, I also agree that the last two booth reviews were garbage. What I hate is that it came to that. It isn’t good for any of the fans really.
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Oh, I agree totally Aaron. I hate instant replay.
Steve Maley (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 10:30AM EDT (link)It slows down the game incredibly. The whole OT was dictated by IR.
OTOH, Bush’s TD was really a TD…
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Totally Vlad...
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 10:35AM EDT (link)And like you said, Brett forced a stupid pass when he didn’t need to. If he hadn’t done that the OT and resulting IR wouldn’t have mattered a wit.
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Here's why I hate instant replay, other than it slows down the game
bk (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 12:45PM EDT (link)They can use it to overrule an incomplete call and say that a player did control the ball inbounds. But if on the same play you can see that one OT tackled a DE and the other OT leg-whipped the other DE, keeping the QB from getting his head knocked off before he ever got the pass off – well too bad because that’s not covered by replay.
Same thing in the other direction – if the call was complete and it turns out he bobbled the ball so it gets overturned, but the replay also shows that the DB was pulling the guys jersey with one hand and his facemask with the other – too bad, it goes as incomplete because that other stuff isn’t reviewable.
If you’re just going to pick one piece of a play to review and ignore everything else, that’s ridiculous. Similarly stupid if you ask me is that pass interference gets waved off if a ball is uncatchable. Well maybe it looked uncatchable because the PI made it impossible to get close, or maybe the QB saw everyone covered and threw it away. Under that logic they should rule that offensive holding on the left tackle doesn’t apply because it was a sweep right and the runner was “uncatchable” by the guy who got held.
I'm a football referee.
NightTwister (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 10:25AM EDT (link)I hate instant replay. Most of the games I officiate only have 4 officials. The NFL uses 7.
Actually, the DPI call was worse than the complete/incomplete call. The ref who called the DPI didn’t have a good angle from where he was. He should’ve known that and not made the call, or deferred to another ref that had a better angle and waved it off. As for the pass completion, he was still trying to gain control of the ball on the ground. That’s your indication that he didn’t have possession.
That said, if the Vikings don’t cough up the ball five times they win by 2-3 TD’s. The refs didn’t blow the game, the Vikings gave it away.
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on that pass complete/incomplete one...
bk (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 1:00PM EDT (link)It was hard to tell which was the case. The ball definitely moved and he regained control, but I felt you couldn’t tell whether the ball hit the ground or his hand and wrist were under the ball and THEY hit the ground but the ball itself didn’t.
That looked to me like one of those that they would not have overruled had it been called incomplete either, because you couldn’t tell for sure so they needed to let the play stand no matter what.
BTW a play no one mentions in the “gave it away” category was that on the drive where the GB tied it 21-21, on the play where the Vikes fumbled and lost 10 yards, Saints LB #58 could have fallen on the ball but tried to pick it up and run instead, which allowed GB to recover. That was just as bad as a turnover IMHO (but it’s not in the box score), since if he falls on it at midfield it puts GB in dire straits. If the Saints can make a short drive and kick a FG to go up 24-14 in the middle of the 3rd, it’s a lot harder for GB to come back.
I'm just relaying what they teach us.
NightTwister (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 6:23PM EDT (link)The fact that he was on the ground and still trying to control the ball would’ve been enough to call it incomplete. Where it was or not, only those there close enough could tell. If I’d been there, I’d have come in immediately waving it off. Funny thing, the Umpire had a great angle at it, but was looking elsewhere (as he should’ve been, that’s not his area to watch).
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if still trying to control the ball even if it hadn't touched the ground?
bk (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 7:01PM EDT (link)If his hand/wrist/forearm was between the ball and the ground it should have been a catch correct?
Obviously the ball moved before he controlled it, but if the contact was ground to arm to ball to body then it seems like a good catch to me. If it was ball touching all the other three then it’s no good. Call me biased, but I would argue that you couldn’t tell whether the ball hit the ground or not, just that it moved when he landed. That’s why I say that IMO they had to let it stand either way – call it good and you can’t say it DID hit the ground to overrule, and call it no good and you can’t say it did NOT hit the ground to overrule.
At least that’s how it looked to me.
I'm not saying they should've overturned it.
NightTwister (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 7:56PM EDT (link)I’m just relaying how referees are taught. You have to make a judgment call on a play like that. You probably don’t have the best angle (you rarely do). A catch includes two things.
1. Secure possession of the football.
2. The ability to make an “athletic move” while in possession of the ball.
Since he really didn’t have either, and I couldn’t tell for sure whether or not it hit the ground, I would’ve called it incomplete. These are High School rules I’m using….professional rules are obviously different, and I can’t say whether or not they are the same or different in this instance.
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And as for the replay...
NightTwister (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 8:00PM EDT (link)The rule is that the replay has to show conclusive evidence that the play called on the field was incorrect. We both agree that they didn’t have conclusive evidence to overrule, so they made the correct call on the replay.
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Two really good games today.
Achance (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 1:09AM EDT (link)I know how it feels to be in NO this evening, I was visiting in ATL after they beat MN to go to the Super Bowl, place was totally nuts. But, I had to root for the old guy and that was a bad way for Favre to lose; all he had to do was run and slide and he could have given his kicker a decent shot. But, Favre being Favre, thought he was twenty years younger and threw back across the field. It wasn’t a bad throw really, but it took to long and those laser shots of his aren’t what they once were, so the defensive back jumped it and got the pick. Bad way to end what may be your last game ever and is almost certainly your last chance to get to a Super Bowl.
Two weeks from now, I’ll stick with Peyton Manning; they’ll beat today’s 3 1/2 pt. spread – but maybe not by much.
In Vino Veritas
I don't know if he could have run on that play
bk (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 5:13AM EDT (link)When they showed it from a different angle later it seemed like there was a Saints LB who probably would have gotten to him in time, esp since Favre would have needed to gain at least 5 yards.
I Thought This Was a Political Thread
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 1:13AM EDT (link)The Saints being the conservatives, and the Colts being the a**es, or Donkeys.
I dunno about that S_Y,
Achance (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 1:25AM EDT (link)The Colts got a whole bunch of that flyover country, bitter, clinging, Bible clutching karma about them, more than the Ain’ts from what I’ve seen. You got a coach that comes out and thanks God before he starts rattling off how wonderful he and his draft picks are, and under straight and boring in the dictionary is a pic of Peyton Manning. Colts seem to be a fairly religious and very sqared away lot. The Saints aren’t the Ravens, but NO is a pretty laissez faire sort of place.
In Vino Veritas
I can see Obama politicizing the Super Bowl...
Third Street (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 5:23AM EDT (link)…by rooting for the Colts over the Saints, on the basis that Indiana voted for him and Louisiana didn’t. Why not? It’s what he did last year in picking the Steelers over the Cardinals.
It’ll be interesting to hear Rush’s Environmental Wacko Pick for the Super Bowl…
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Dave Monday, January 25th at 1:16AM EDT (link)Peyton Manning and the Colts could most likely return to the big dance sometime down the road. Maybe even next season.
Not so sure about the Saints, who I will be cheering on in the big game.
LOL – And I live in Atlanta and have been a life-long Falcons fan, too.
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One NFC team remains...
jeremyz (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 1:39AM EDT (link)Now my glorious Detroit Lions are the only NFC team to have NEVER made a Super Bowl. There are still the Browns, Texans, and Jaguars from the AFC, but in the NFC the Li(e-D)o(w)ns stand alone. Way to go New Orleans. Let’s finish the job!!!
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Easy for me!
azaeroprof (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 2:05AM EDT (link)Brees = Boilermaker = GO SAINTS!
I'm with you but
mustango (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 7:27AM EDT (link)I can foresee quite a few Indiana residents having a dilemma similar to Erick’s.
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Gigi Monday, January 25th at 8:26AM EDT (link)I have been a Colts fan since they arrived from Baltimore in a Mayflower truck. And I just adore all of the Mannings. (I did some work with Peyton’s foundation. What a great guy!)
Then there is Drew. I worked for Purdue during his last season and attended every game. He is an amazing guy. I was so happy to see him do so well this season, but ARGH! Who to cheer on?
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What, no fellow Colts fans around here?
Brian_Roastbeef (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 2:22AM EDT (link)Come on, give Indy some support. What is this logic of “root for the Saints because the Colts will get there again?” So, because Peyton Manning is so good as to be successful, we are to root against him? Since when don’t we like success around here? We’re supposed to hope that the Saints will win it simply because they are among the Super Bowl have-nots. That’s Super Bowl Socialism is what that is. “You have too many Super Bowls so give one of your championships to these guys who don’t have any.” I didn’t think we were setting up that sort of “Red” State around here…
I’m rooting for the All-American. The #1. The type of guy that works hard, doesn’t give up, and always finds victory in the end. My support goes to the Indianapolis Colts, because I don’t think ‘success’ is a bad word.
And if none of that convinced you, just remember: Peyton Manning was a big supporter of Fred Thompson for President.
I'm a NOLA native but I was pulling for the Colts
bk (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 5:18AM EDT (link)Yeah the 2am departure from Baltimore was low-class and all that stuff, but for the past decade or so the Colts have seemed to be the class org of the league. I don’t care for Eli due to his draft day antics, but I’ve always liked Peyton and the way the Colts play. Dungy was a class act and I like his replacement too. He took a LOT of guff for giving away the earlier game to the Jets, so it was a bit of redemption for him too.
Another Colts fan here!
shaitra (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 7:59AM EDT (link)Born and raised outside of Indy, how can I not root for the Colts? After giving away the perfect season, the only way to redeem themselves is to win the Superbowl.
GO HORSE
BrianinIN Monday, January 25th at 8:11AM EDT (link)I remember the 3-13 seasons, the playoff games we lost to the evil Pats, the Colts deserve this as much as anyone
Just watch, the sports media will be spinning this like the Colts are underdogs just like they did for the Jets game….
This is the first SB I have no interest in awhile
Illinicon (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 2:26AM EDT (link)Farve being my favriote player and pulling for the Jets because of the connections they have to the Bears (Rex being Buddy’s son and Thomas Jones), seeing them lose today the way they did is a bummer. Plus I think this is going to be a dog game, as the Saints D has been playing at a HS level since the Redskins game and I doubt the Colts turn the ball over five times.
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declared candidates:
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2. Herman Cain
3. Gary Johnson
4. Rick Santorum
among declared and rumored candidates:
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2. Tim Pawlenty
3. Rudy Giuilani
4. Herman Cain
It was easy to hate the Vikings tonight...
Third Street (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 3:05AM EDT (link)…all I had to do was conjure up the face of Al Franken.
In a week of the unthinkable — the GOP taking Massachusetts; CFR being overturned; health deform apparently being killed (no, I don’t believe for a second reconciliation will get the Dems anywhere) the Saints winning their first NFC championship and a ticket to the Super Bowl was truly the icing on the cake. The corpses underneath the Superdome have been quieted at last! ‘AIN’TS NO MORE!
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I haven't watched a game like that in years! Congrats Saints!
nessa (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 3:30AM EDT (link)I’ve been a Vikings fan all my life, them blowing “the big one” is something I’m experienced in dealing with.
I’ll pull for the Saints, they deserve one.
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It was certainly a heart-stopper.
Third Street (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 3:41AM EDT (link)But I’m glad — anything this momentous is worth fighting for, and the Vikings certainly made the Saints earn every inch of ground.
I was almost afraid to look when FOX cut to a view of Bourbon Street after the game — what would we see? Cars careening into buildings? Fires in the Quarter? Simultaneous explosions of plate-glass windows all the way up and down the street? It is gonna be nuts here in La. for the next couple of weeks.
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LOL, enjoy yourself Street!
nessa (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 3:49AM EDT (link)I was stationed at Ft Polk for a few years, visited Bourbon Street several times. I can imagine, if things go your way the party should run right up thru Fat Tuesday. I hear vitamin A is good for the liver, you might want to stock up…
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Thanks nessa; it's gonna be interesting...
Third Street (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 3:56AM EDT (link)…there may be a nationwide call for liver donations to the people of Louisiana before all this is over with, but what a way to go!
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Colts should win however
jacon4 Monday, January 25th at 5:07AM EDT (link)i gotta go with the NFC team, the Saints to upset Colts .
Who dat!!
voteindy Monday, January 25th at 5:59AM EDT (link)GO SAINTS!!
Rush pulling for Irsay?
maddog (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 7:01AM EDT (link)I suspect Rush Limbaugh won’t be pulliing for Irsay’s Colts.
I like the Mannings but not Irsay. Conundrum indeed. I’m pulling for the Saints. They’ve been hapless for so many years. Heck. I remember the “A’ints” years and Bum Phillips.
Before the game
Darin_H (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 9:12AM EDT (link)I was okay with either the Minnesota Favres or the Saints winning, but as the game went on, and I had to listen to how great Brett Favre is and see his stupid wife every other play, I started rooting for the Saints just so I wouldn’t have to deal with 2 weeks of Favre mania from the media – who couldn’t have an original idea if it hit them in the backside. Though now we get to deal with “Katrina” for 2 weeks….. I was going to root for the Saints, but if that’s going to be the storyline, I might as well root for Pumpkinhead.
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Geaux Saints!
louisiana (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 9:46AM EDT (link)After watching them lose year after year, many times in the 4th Q, I’m thrilled to see them in the Super Bowl. I do wish Coach Payton had not said the win was for NOLA, when ALL LA taxpayers have been propping up the team for years. (P.S.,I really don’t want to listen to the Katrina sob story either.)
The Saints are going to get spanked by the Colts...
conservativemusician Monday, January 25th at 10:07AM EDT (link)The only reason they won last night is all the fumbles from Minnesota. They’re a decent team, but their defense is pretty soft. Manning will pick them apart by the 2nd quarter. Still, it is nice to see the Saints made it to the big game.
Jets gave Manning all he could handle and then some
Achance (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 10:29AM EDT (link)for 28 minutes. From the two minute warning in the first half until the end, it was just Manning performing surgery on the Jets’ defense and other than those couple of big plays, the Colt’s defense was a lot better than I expected. They never got much pressure on Sanchez though, and if you give Brees time to throw, he’ll pick you apart almost as well, better in some ways, as Manning.
I think the Colts win, but not by much.
In Vino Veritas
Agree with you Achance.
conservativemusician Monday, January 25th at 12:04PM EDT (link)The Colts are good on defense and very deep on offense with a lot of weapons, even more than the Saints. I think it is going to be one of those games where the Saints will have to do everything right and not turn the ball over at all. Manning is too expereienced and just too good not to take advantage of mistakes the Saints will make The score may be close in the end, but the Colts will still dominate the game from start to finish.
This southerner CHOSE to be a Colts fan as a child in the late 60s and
Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 8:49PM EDT (link)I have never regretted it. Yes, I love the Falcons and Panthers, but the Colts are my favorite in the NFL.
Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
Yep, I especially liked the Colts in the days of Johnny Unitas.
conservativemusician Monday, January 25th at 11:24PM EDT (link)In my opinion, he could have played in any era and been a superstar. Not only could he read defenses like Manning, he was also tough as nails and fearless in the face of multiple blitzers in his face. Man, I really miss those days sometimes. Still a Redskins fan since my childhood when Kilmer and Jurgenson were playing, but like you, I have always admired the Colts.
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Mike gamecock DeVine (Diary) Wednesday, January 27th at 12:28PM EDT (link)Mike DeVine’s Examiner.com and Charlotte Observer columns
“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson
I Guess Kim Khardasian Gets The Rock.
Repair_Man_Jack (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 10:22AM EDT (link)I hope she doesn’t fumble it like a Minnesota Viking.
Mr. Obama is pretending that an economic “recovery” is underway when he knows damn well that the banking system is just blowing smoke up the shredded *** of what’s left of that economy – James Howard Kunstler
Go LIONS!!!!!
smitch61 Monday, January 25th at 10:26AM EDT (link)If the Saints go marching in, so can the LIONS!!! … someday I pray in my lifetime…
LOL smitch61.
conservativemusician Monday, January 25th at 12:23PM EDT (link)Anything is possible! Keep the faith! Next year, the Lions and Redskins (my favorite team) could be in the NFC Championship game.
I must say I've been pulling for the Saints for awhile
Richard Mullins (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 10:54AM EDT (link)Great Team and great Owner(Tom Benson). I hoping that the Saints might win it and in a sort of way I think they can. If the Saints do win(good possibility), Tom Benson would only need to get 3 more to catch up with Peter Holt as the only owners living in San Antonio to have Championships. I think I’m going to have to party like it 2007(oh wait wrong pro-sports league). I’m still wondering it must have been like at Tom Benson’s house.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Bumbling Joe Biden and Middle-Class task-force = same old Liberal games....
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 12:17PM EDT (link)Biden announced the year end results, and no surprise, it’s the same old Liberal Class warfare and Dem. Money Laundering (PC excuses to $pend) (plus “extent possible” language) schemes…..
It’s for the Children BS abounds….
1st…. divide and conquer and play up the Children angle with more Child Tax Credits…. Basically, anyone that hasn’t had children are told TOUGH, you don’t get to keep more of your own money because we want to use it to SUBSIDIZE those who have had kids to buy additional votes.
2nd…. reward the Colleges/Universities…. Oh wait, they aren’t directly going to state that, but it is all about rewarding their Elitist allies by subsidizing and lowering Student Loan “burdens”…. you know, so they can be paid off even longer periods and/or more of them forgiven, while the Colleges and Universities can then DRIVE UP THE COST OF ATTENDING to pad Salaries even more as more Federal monies and regulations (harming Banks, for one) are doled out.
There’s more… but it is NOT as if you shouldn’t have known in advance the same old Liberal/Progressive playbook wasn’t in play.
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If "The People" actually had any idea what kind of money
Achance (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 7:27PM EDT (link)full professors and high-level college administrators make, and how little they actually do, they’d burn the damned places. People were complaining about $170K salaries for high-level Feds, some of whom actually have jobs, college administrators won’t talk to you for that kind of money.
There’s a young punk that used to be a co-worker of mine years ago, well, young punk to me, he’s probably in his early ’50s, but he acts like a young punk; anyway, screwed up to a fare-the-well in trying to negotiate a big labor agreement and was at least smart enough to figure out he’d screwed up and had reached the peak of his abilities because he’d gotten to the level where BS no longer worked. Resigned and went back to school; that’s the modern version of checking into the monastery. Got his MA and enrolled in the Ph.D program but I don’t think got the sheepskin. Along the way, hooks up with an up and coming college administrator and becomes his briefcase toter. Couldn’t hack it fifteen years ago in a job that today pays $80K and change, but ostensibly doing the same kind of work but with a fancy title for a universisty is making aroung $300K.
In Vino Veritas
It's pretty bad
aesthete (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 7:38PM EDT (link)TAs teach the classes, lab assistants do the research, and the professor gets to pass off a grad student’s paper as his own. The only place where I’ve seen it operate differently on an institutional level (minus the TA teaching the class) is in some of the hard sciences.
“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
-P.J. O’Rourke
I'm with you Erick
revolutionary Monday, January 25th at 1:52PM EDT (link)I was born in LA so I am an automatic fan! But I have watched the heartbreak for years with them and am so excited they get to go to the big show. Our conundrum started with the Vikings game, though. We live in Hattiesburg…home of Brett Favre and he is a stand up guy. I would have been happy for him to go, but I am thrilled that the Saints finally get a chance- I was sick with nerves the whole game! I said it right after the game ended, “Well now who do we root for? We love the Mannings and Archie played for the Saints for goodness sake!” So our conundrum continues…
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WHO DAT!!
redtillimdead (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 6:20PM EDT (link)Your from LA? Cool!
BLACK AND GOLD SUPERBOWL BABY!
You know, I’ve got to see both the Manning boys go to the Superbowl in the past few years, its our turn. I like both of them but, like I said, I already got to see them there.
Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.
After the way they treated Rush
Raven (Diary) Monday, January 25th at 7:17PM EDT (link)And the poor sportsmanship they have shown all year, I am rooting for a Colts blowout where Manning shows little boy Brees that he’s out of his league.
…And some significant injuries among the more openly racist members of the club…
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36