Take It To The Bank January 6, 2013
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Sports.Tags: Andrew Luck, choke, colts, peyton manning, playoff, superbowl
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Colts by 6. Then it’s Andrew Luck vs. Peyton Manning next week…and while Manning is probably going to collect his record fifth NFL MVP, he also has a nasty habit of Heimlich-worthy chokes in playoff games. That would put the Colts in the AFC championship game with Tom Brady and the Pats, and let’s face it, the Pats can’t win everytime. Fine, so let’s just go for the whole enchilada: It’ll be the Colts over Cory’s Packers in the Superbowl, and Andrew Luck will be the first rookie quarterback in history to loft the Lombardi trophy. That’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
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Hey, Did The Colts Play Yesterday? November 19, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in reader interaction, Sports.Tags: Broncos, choke, colts, peyton manning, playoffs, tom brady
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As always, I’ve been a bad blogger this weekend (there are many who might argue that my best blogging is when I stay away from the keyboard, but what do they know?). Thanks to Cory for maintaining a bit of content, such as it is. I’m back now, for a few days, although I’m taking the Thanksgiving holiday off to spend some quality time in Vegas. This might be an excellent time to put some money on the Colts to appear in the playoffs, since the odds should have increased after Sunday’s drubbing at the hands of Tom Brady and the Pats. My small consolation is that Brady is bound to come up against Peyton and his new team come playoff time, and maybe Manning will have less tendency to choke in the post-season when he’s wearing orange. You never know.
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Go Blue! November 5, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Sports, Uncategorized.Tags: Andrew Luck, colts, playoffs, rg3
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And not just the states. The Colts made it to 5-3 yesterday as Andrew Luck did a lot to reassure the Blue Nation that the front office made the right decision taking Luck over RGIII in the draft. 433 passing yards and the third straight game over 300 is pretty impressive. And Reggie Wayne continues to be the most underrated wide-out in the league, making the impossible look routine on a regular basis. Who ever thought the Colts might be in playoff contention this year? Meanwhile, that fellow who used to stand behind center for the Colts seems to have adapted pretty well to the thin air in Denver.
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Take That, Cheesehead! October 7, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in reader interaction, Sports.Tags: colts, green bay packers, indianapolis, upset
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Ok, enough gloating. I’m really looking forward to Cory’s analysis of the game. Say what you will about my blogmate, the dude knows football. Ok, maybe one more moment of gloating. Fine, now I’m done.
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The Big Match-Up October 4, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Sports.Tags: breast cancer awareness, chuck pagano, colts, leukemia, orange, packers, pink
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My blogmate’s Green Bay Packers will be visiting the Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium on Sunday. The Packers are unsurprisingly favored to win. But Indy will be playing with additional emotion while Coach Chuck Pagano is down the street at IU Medical Center receiving chemotherapy for leukemia. So a miracle upset could happen. The Colts fans will be wearing orange, which is the color for supporting leukemia research, along with pink, which the whole NFL is wearing for breast cancer awareness month. Honestly, I had no idea every major disease had a support color. In NFL terms, I guess every day in Cleveland is colon cancer awareness day. Just sayin’…
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Speaking Of The Colts September 10, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Sports.Tags: Andrew Luck, Broncos, colts, divided loyalties, peyton manning, steelers, troy palamalu
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Colts fans have divided loyalties this year. We all want Andrew Luck to become the next Peyton Manning, but in the meantime, we all want to see Peyton Manning continue to be Peyton Manning. So it was a football bonanza yesterday, with the Colts playing the Bears on CBS at 1 and the Broncos hosting the Steelers on Sunday Night Football. How was Peyton Manning in his first game in Mile High Stadium? Ask Steelers all-world safety Troy Palamalu: “What can you say? I mean, he’s Peyton Manning. He’s the same Manning,” Steelers safety Troy Polamalu said. “Everything anybody has ever said about him is probably the same thing I would say tonight.” Enough said.
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Opening Salvo: It’s My Lucky Day August 13, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Politics, reader interaction, Sports.Tags: Andrew Luck, colts, mitt romney, paul ryan, peyton manning, vice president
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Well, with Dr. Right temporarily off the grid, it’s just us lefties today, so let’s give the secret handshake, sacrifice the goat, and don the black robes…oh, wait, that’s a different ritual…never mind.
Listen, I baited my blogmate and I wasn’t disappointed. I knew what response I would get for pointing out the obvious fact that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are the archetypical “old rich white guys”. If that makes me racist, agist, and classist…fine, guilty as charged. But the GOP is making no bones about what they are offering in 2012. This is unambiguously a return to the American politics of the last century and the century before that. This is “establishment” with a capital “E”. Not a nod to blacks, hispanics, women, or anyone with a median income below six figures. Give them credit for honesty and purity of purpose. Anyone who pulls the lever for these guys should have absolutely no illusions about what they are getting. As an aside, I’ll enjoy those vice presidential debates as well. They won’t be as amusing as when Sarah Palin was there to butcher semantics and spin homey Yukon yarns, but I think they’ll have the same result.
Meanwhile, it’s a shame that Romney chose this weekend to announce his running mate when the news was clearly overshadowed by the story on the lips of every American…the mind-boggling performance of Indianapolis Colts first-pick Andrew Luck, who threw a touchdown pass on his very first play from scrimmage as an NFL quarterback, which coincidentally is exactly the same thing best quarterback in the history of the game Peyton Manning did back in 1998.
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End Of An Era March 7, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Sports.Tags: Andrew Luck, colts, indianapolis, neck, peyton manning, released
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It’s official. As of high noon today Peyton Manning is an ex-Colt. It’s hard to think of Indianapolis, let alone the Colts, without Peyton Manning. I still think he could have done himself and his legacy a big favor by retiring from playing football altogether, but I have no idea what must go through the mind of a world class athlete. One just hopes that he selects his next team on the basis of the best offensive line…or what will be going through his mind (and his thrice-repaired neck) will be some 320 pound defensive end. Good luck to Peyton and good luck to Luck.
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Hey, Ditka’s Not Doing Anything Important January 17, 2012
Posted by Benjamin Wendell in Sports.Tags: colts, fired, Jim Caldwell, Mike Ditka, peyton manning
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This can’t be surprising to anyone. How many coaches have gone 2-14 in anything but their first season and kept their job?
Here’s another intriguing possibility that die-hard Colts fans can’t help but wistfully contemplate: How about making Peyton Manning the first (ex) player-coach in NFL history?
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