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Know Your Colts History: This is your draft class

All this week we've been looking at our new draft choices, trying to see how they'll fit in on the team and all that fun jazz.  But we still don't really know much about the players as people.  It'll take a while to really get a feel for what they're like, but hopefully these facts will help us start to understand them better...or maybe not.

Mike Pollak: He's not, I repeat NOT related to Jackson Pollack.  Just because you were shouting "Who the #$&% is Mike Pollak?" when the Colts made their first pick doesn't change their relation, even if it's something that you'd also say about Jackson Pollack.

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Philip Wheeler: Wheeler is the first Yellow Jacket to be drafted by the Colts since their move to Indianapolis.  In fact, the last player from Georgia Tech by the Colts was the immortal quarterback Jim Bob Taylor (I didn't make that name up, honestly) in 1983.

Most of you probably know the 1983 Draft as the famous "Quarterback draft" that had 6 QB's go in the first round, with 3 of them (Marino, Kelly, and that other QB the Colts drafted that year) going on to become Hall of Famers.  Jim Bob didn't go in the first round, and he didn't make it into the Hall of Fame (yet!), but he can claim one thing that none of the other quarterbacks can: Every single ball he passed in the NFL for the exact same yardage.  In his career he had two passing attempts, one was a completion for 20 yards, and the other was an interception that was returned 20 yards.

Jacob Tamme: He earned a degree in integrated strategic communications from Kentucky.  In other words, he should be working with Peyton at ESP level by the end of training camp.

Marcus Howard: Wanna see someone wet their pants?  Just whisper "Here comes Marcus!" in Colt Brennan's ear.

Tom Santi: If you re-arrange the letters in his name, you get moist ant.  I have no idea what a moist ant is, but it sounds pretty dirty.

Steve Justice: Remember how I talked about Philip Wheeler being first Yellow Jacket drafted by the Colts since 1983?  Steve Justice is the first Demon Deacon drafted by the Colts since 1968.

Mike Hart: Has no respect for Jim Harbaugh.

Pierre Garcon: When he's not being made fun of for his especially French-sounding name, he's got a penchant for some pretty dazzling catches, like this one:

Just think how much more spectacular it would have been had it counted.

Jamey Richard: According to his bio, the most impressive person he's ever met is Phil Simms.  I guess that means that Jamey isn't a snowball advocate.

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Hey, the Wizards are still alive!

Phoenix Suns is not. There goes my final.

Walk on, walk on With hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone You'll never walk alone

by MerryGoByeBye on May 2, 2008 1:34 PM EDT reply reply   0 recs

Must win tonight

This doesn’t help.

I too, was shocked by how quickly the Suns were knocked out.

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by JakeTheSnake on May 2, 2008 2:33 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Addition about the Suns

I’d just like to mention that it absolutely stinks that they’re probably going to have to blow it up because their owner is such a penny-pincher.

Bullets Forever: Your home for blogging on the dumbest team in the history of civilization.

by JakeTheSnake on May 2, 2008 2:42 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Suns

Yeah, they made some very, VERY bad decisions over the last few years, some of those related to saving money. Steve Nash is my favorite player at the NBA today, he’s absolutely great. Too bad he just can’t win a ring.

The Suns were very good to watch, you know. Something like the Colts, but in basketball. The Spurs, on the other hand, are everything that’s very wrong with basketball today. They doing that hack-a-Shaq in the series was absolutely awful, and a good point on why I don’t follow basketball very closely.

On the Wizards, I thought they would win this series, and I still do. The Cavs are really bad other than LeBron, who’s really good. Since the Pacers didn’t make into the POs, and the Suns got out quickly, I want the Wizards to win it all. Most likely it won’t happen.

Walk on, walk on With hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone You'll never walk alone

by MerryGoByeBye on May 2, 2008 8:18 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs

Garcon's catch

I still fail to see how it didn’t count…

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by Bullard47 on May 2, 2008 1:59 PM EDT reply reply   0 recs

There was a penalty

I goofed up the link about why it didn’t count. Here it is.

Bullets Forever: Your home for blogging on the dumbest team in the history of civilization.

by JakeTheSnake on May 2, 2008 2:29 PM EDT to parent up reply reply   0 recs


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