Know Your Colts History: All Aboard The Failboat
by Jake Whitacre on Dec 12, 2008 10:01 PM EST
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"How much do you wanna bet I can still win this game, ref?"
Longtime readers of the blog may know that Know Your Colts History started out as a segment where I'd take screencaps from the History of the Colts DVD and add weird captions to them. Eventually, I wore that DVD out (as well as the Super Bowl champs DVD) so I had to go to actually writing stuff each week (well, if you call what I do "writing"). But for this week at least, the KYCH tradition will be relived as we take a look back at the 4 minute sequence that saved the Colts season.
If that ball slips about an inch farther out of Santi's hands, the Colts would've been 1-3.
The rest of the team gives Marvin his distance after he reveals to them that he was no longer a prisoner of "the tyranny that is deodorant."
Melvin Bullit rushes off of the field after realizing that his cupcakes had finished baking.
Joseph and Dom both come to the realize at the same moment that they were each starting the other one in their fantasy league this week.
Gary: "Good job today, Sage. Have you thought about what candy bar you want after the game?"
Sage: "A 3 Musketeers bar would really hit the spot."
Gary: "Fluffy nougat? No no no no no. You deserve something big today. I'm getting you a King Size Butterfinger.
Sage: "Aw, thanks coach."
3rd and 8, up by 10 with less than 4 minutes to go. Sounds like a good time to give it to the running back and pound it up the gut and run off some clock.
...or play Russian Roulette. Whatever.
Note where he's taking off from. In order to get the first down, Sage would've had to dive 4.5 yards (about 13-14 feet) to get to that yellow line, while simultaneously hurdling a Colt. You can question a lot of things about Sage Rosenfels, but you can't question his confidence when it comes to doing things that no 30 year old in full pads should be able to do.
When Matt Schaub is rolling his eyes at you, you're not having a good day.
"Alright guys, that was a tough break, but we're still up by 3. Let's go out there and win this game! We've got nothing to panic about guys, nothing. We've got this. We've got this! Why are you all looking at me like that?"
"You know what I could go for right now? BLOOMIN' ONION."
"Hey coach, how much do you want to bet that they won't even need me to finish this comeback?"
Reason #49,320,904 why Robert Mathis is awesome.
HIYEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
YAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!
Ouch.
"So the twister party after the game is still a go, right? Right?!?"
***Shortly after Reggie Wayne's TD to give the Colts the lead, a short video of Dallas Clark's new touchdown dance "The Wiggler" aired on the Jumbotron. Here are the reactions of several people who were in the stadium.***
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yeah that was great
and it brought back such a nice memory. really where would this season be without Sage?
brought back some fond memories
I just wanted to share my experience and recollection of this game. This was the first colts game that I had missed in the last five years despite the fact that I live in Western South Dakota. Some people have religion, I have football. The ironic reason why I missed the game was because me and my 1.5 yr. old son had come to indy for my Grandmothers 80th birthday. Unfortunately her birthday party was at Sacred Heart and there was no television to watch. The cruel thing was that when we left the house to drive to the party it was 10 nothing Colts. A couple of relatives informed me that the colts had dropped 27 straight points and it was nearing the end of the 4th quarther. I resigned myself to the fact that it was better that I really had missed the colts game because my whole family is Catholic and they would not have appreciated all of the rude and lude things that I wouldve been shouting in front of them and my son. As I was walking up to the serving table to get myself a piece of birthday cake my cousin Meghan Walsh grabbed my wrist with authority and said “can you believe it” believe what i said, " the Colts won!!!" In utter disbelief I promptly told my cousin to quit fu*#%in with me. She said that she wasnt and had been following along the whole time on her cell phone. Despite the fact that I was dissapointed that she did not invite me to huddle aound her cell phone to witness such a miracle, I was exstatic. Never in my life have I been so happy to be in Nap town because all I wanted to see was replays and commentary and I was afforded that opportunity with all the local media something that I never would have gotten in Good Old Rapid City, SD. GO COLTS!
Dun nuh nuh nuhhhh!!!! Super Mathis
by hoosier in sodak on Dec 13, 2008 1:52 AM EST reply actions
Great memories
I always look forward to this segment. Keep up the good work Snake!
It's a bird, it's a plane... no it's Supermathis!!!
This was the most dramatic comeback
that I ever watched until the not-so-bitter end for any of my teams. I confess I didn’t even watch the 2006/7 conference champ game against the pats because I broke my cell phone throwing it across the room when we were down 21-3 and had to go out and buy a new one. I was glad that I did sit through it, just as I was glad I sat through the Vikings game earlier this year.
Colts comebacks
Ah, you see, the 2nd Jags game that season inured me to the pain of losing big. In my mind, no matter how far we went, we were so flawed that it just wasn’t supposed to be our year. Little did I know.
So when Peyton threw the pick-six, my heart kind of ripped and I said to my young sons, “okay, guys, that’s it, doesn’t look like we’ll win this one. We can all relax now. You can talk and play and I won’t yell at anybody.”
Two hours later, we were ignoring the rest of my wife’s family who had all gathered for dinner, as we counted down the final seconds. (Why does she never consult the football schedule when inviting dinner guests? I’ll save that for another post.)
Bobman
isnt there some type of award for this? because that was brilliant!
and hoosier in sodaks story was hysterical
I was actually watching this game in a bar where jag fans were all gleeful of the colts about to lose and we were ready to leave when…what to my shining eyes appear but 3 touchdowns in 4 minutes and the comeback of the year
Yeah
Schaub is a solid QB. The thing is that he doesn’t get angry a whole lot (at least not from what I’ve seen) so it kind of surprised me to see that. What I was trying to get across is that if you’ve gotten him mad enough to roll his eyes at you, you’ve really messed up.
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by Jake Whitacre on Dec 13, 2008 11:40 AM EST up reply actions
My memory
I was at a sports bar in Atlanta watching the Sunday games with my friend who is a Ravens fan. Ravens were beating the Titans, the Colts were not looking so hot. With about five minutes left, I decided to walk out to the patio area to smoke a cigarette because I was depressed. Much to my chagrin, there were a dozen or so Colts fans out on the patio all in their jersey’s watching the game. I had been to this bar before, but never saw this group of people. In my Addai jersey, I joined them and we were all depressed together. Then the Rosen-copter happened. I stayed outside and watched the Colts pull off the win, then went inside and laughed as the Titans beat the Ravens. I have been back to that bar several times, and have never seen that group again. Which is a shame, because there was a hot girl in a Bob Sanders jersey. She is the one that got away…
Hysterical!!
"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007
by peytonsthebest on Dec 15, 2008 11:00 AM EST reply actions
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