For once, Foxborough Stadium looked like Peyton's Place. Peyton Manning (shown above) and the Indianapolis Colts finally scaled their personal Everest. Maybe now, after routing the New England Patriots 40-21 on Monday night, they'll admit this could be a super season. Manning shrugged off his 0-7 record at Foxborough with an intelligent dissection of the two-time defending champions. Aided by star running back Edgerrin James' 104 yards on 34 carries, and 100-yard receiving games from Marvin Harrison and Reggie Wayne, Manning led the Colts on six lengthy scoring drives and kept them perfect through eight games, the NFL's only undefeated team.
AFC East Standings
Patriots 4-4
Bills 3-5
Dolphins 3-5
Jets 2-6
6 comments:
As a fervent Patriot hater, let me say kudos to the Colts, their qb, their receivers, and their black coach Tony Dungy. I LOVED watching this game and I'm glad I was off today so I could stay up and watch it.
The Colts won the game. They delivered the smackdown, fair and square. While nobody can deny that 8-0 is an awesome record, I can not for the life of me understand why people are acting like this was the Superbowl. As if the Colts stopped some great winning streak. As if they knocked off the top team in the league.
The Patriots were 4-3 and the team has a bunch of injuries. Sure it's great to win any game, but this isn't exactly something to write home about.
not quite sure what this means for the rest of the season, but Peyton was smart enough not to get hype about it, because he might see this team again in January.
Oh and let me add to jameil1922, exactly what does Dungy being Black have to do with anything?
I love to see my fellow Black people succeed and when I have the opportunity to help them in that success, I take it. But regarding the NFL, half the league is Black. So I'm sure you root against Black players all the time.
The Patriots have Black players, they also had a Black defensive coordinator for the past few years. So exactly where do you decide what Black people to root for and which to root against?
Dungy is a coach. A very good coach. I'm sure being Black had it's share of difficulties for him, but he managed to overcome them. Referring to Dungy as "their black coach", only underminds what he has accomplished.
the way i read it, he wasn't undermining Dungy. the subtleties of media spin are real. Dungy is just now getting his props for the Colts' remarkable season thus far because up until Monday night, 'they' were still hugging onto Belichek's nuts tightly.
A Patriots hater from Pittsburgh...why am I not surprised? Does that loss that the Patriots put on the Steelers hurt even more because the Patriots aren't an elite team this season.
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