Undefeated Colts?

[tamu33]

With two tough remaining opponents (San Diego and Seattle) will the Colts go undeated in the regular season? playoffs?

[Pinball]

They are jsut lucky they dont dont have to play the vikings this year (well not until the superbowl). The vikes would sink the colts boat any day of the week.

Dungy is not the kind of coach that would risk injury to his "boys". I think we will see a healthy dose of Sorgi int eh next weeks.

[laxfan25]

The ViQueens wouldn't stand a chance, although they are playing surprisingly well under Brad Johnson. I thought the Love Boat cruise on Minnetonka would have taken it all out of their legs.
I don't believe Dungy will be resting his players that much, and I think Seattle will be in the same mode as Indy, having clinched home field, but being at home, wanting to prove themselves against everyone's prohibitive favorite to win the SB (mine too) and wanting to stop their undefeated quest - I think the Seahags will take 'em.
The Colts will have the last laugh as they dismantle them in the SuperBowl. Could be an interesting bit of trivia if Indy and Seattle face-off in the SB - two dome teams playing in a dome! Have there ever been two dome teams in the Super Bowl?

[Dan Wishengrad]

Seahawks havent been a dome team in four years... you need to get out more.

[laxfan25]

Oops! Is it at least a retractable roof?

[Dan Wishengrad]

Nope... and what is really amazing is that in four seasons playing outdoors at Qwest Field, the Seahawks played their first game in the rain just this season.

No dome team has ever won the SuperBowl. I agree that Indy has a great chance this season -- and my money would be on them over Seattle or anybody else if they make it. But i would love to see that matchup, and I don't think it would be a "dismantling" but a high scoring, exciting game.

[devildog0351]

I give it to the Colts all the way. Granted it is nice to be able to give your hot shot starters rest after securing homefield advantage, but let me pose a question for all of you out there.

no cheating here...
1. Who off the top of their heads can remember who won the super bowl 17 years ago???

Now in the same time you spent thinking of that:

2. who all remembers who the last team to go undefeated in a season was?

I would be willing to bet 99/9% of the people out there will be able to answer #2 right away. It is the simple fact that the Colts have a chance to accomplish something great that would put them with the best of the best in football history.

My vote is for Indy all the way, but then again I bet on Philly to be a powerhouse in the NFC again this year... Just my thoughts.

[tamu33]

1. If I did my math correct then it is 1988 that you are referring to, and that would be the San Fran 49ers over the Bengals. The last time the Bengals were any good. Besides the late 80's are kinda easy to remember for Super Bowl winners (winners were all NFC teams and 49ers had three of them and then you have the 85 bears and then I think the 'Skins, and of course you have the Broncos (setting an example for the Bills of the early 90's) for the losers with the Bengals and someone else I can't remember.

2. 1972 Dolphins

Now instead of 17 years try 29 years (1976) and I have no clue.

[devildog0351]

I was just pulling some random number out of my head to try to prove the point that everybody remembers the 72 dolphins off the top of their head because they did go undefeated, and not who won all the past superbowls...

Every year someone wins the superbowl, but it isn't every year that a team goes undefeated...

[KnoxVegas]

Say the Colts are undefeated going into week 17.

As Mercury Morris (convicted felon) has said, "Don't call me when they are in my town. Call me when they are on my block." (I would call 15-0 on the doorstep.) Given this:

Do you think that the surviving members of the '72 Dolphins make the trip to Indy (possibly as a guest of Bill Bidwell. Wait, he is a cheapskate but nonetheless) to stand on the Arizona sideline, like they did in '85 for the Bears game?




(Yes, yes of course I know when they did it in '85, it was a Miami home game.)

[KnoxVegas]

Now instead of 17 years try 29 years (1976) and I have no clue.

"Old man, Willie! Old Man, Willie!" Oakland defeated Minnesota at the Rose Bowl in Super Bowl XI.

The shame of that game is that Madden retired following the game. As a Raider fan, I wish he had stayed. As a football fan, I wish he had stayed.

[bste_lax]

I will say that the last 3 teams to go 13-0 won the Super Bowl.

72 Dolphins
85 Bears
98 Broncos

[laxfan25]

No dome team has ever won the SuperBowl.

Well, Dan, it looks like I can give it back to you a little! How quickly they forget the aerial circus that was Kurt Warner, Isaac Bruce, Az Akim and Marshall Faulk. The St. Louis Rams over the Tenn Titans in the Georgia Dome in 2000. A dome team winning in an actual dome.
I remember it well because I had Tenn in one of my football pools, and when they came up inches short of winning - devastating.
So now we're each 1-1 in our stunning display of football trivia.

[Dan Wishengrad]

You got me! Of course the Rams ended that old "no dome team..." jinx. I obviously need to get out more too

And speaking of jinxes, it's sad to see the Seahawks' first truly great season go down in flames so prematurely. I speak of that old "S.I. Jinx" -- the cover photo of Shaun Alexander proabably heralds an ACL tear and the story on the team will almost surely lead to yet another first-round playoff loss. Oh well...

[laxfan25]

I noticed that too, for a different reason. Today I'm in the semifinals of my fantasy football league, and my team is limping in - Ben Rothlisberger at QB, Brian Westbrook one of my RB's, Neil Rackers was my kicker - so a little dinged up.
My opponent, one of the cockiest guys ever in the pool, has Shaun Alexander and Larry Johnson at RB - so not that I wish anything bad for the season on SA, but maybe he can trip on the dog tomorrow and tweak an ankle for a week....please?!