is the reason fanblogs will dominate mainstreammedia in a few years. Excellent, hardhitting and witty journalism.

Most teams out there (when they play Indy) treat it as a ‘win at all costs’ game. They break out the gimmick plays, blitzes, onside kicks, etc. They basically pull out all the stops in order to try and beat the Colts. It’s almost always a playoff atmosphere. They’re always gunning for us. In fact, many teams specifically draft players to try to legitimately compete with the colts. (i.e. Houston Texans, Denver Broncos….just to name two). This has been going on for years and is totally unprecedented in NFL history. For Colts fans, it is a good position to be in…..just means our team is great. Singletary obviously took it too far, and I bet he regrets his decision. Hopefully, we won’t repeat it. I still respect the rest of the 49er team for the fight they put up. I truly expected a 25 point win. Hopefully, the Colts won’t be this ‘out of sync’ again this year.

are part of the reason to run the no-huddle. even if the player does go down, he has to sit out the next play. yes, everyone wants the play to go through because of the “wrong D” on the field, but missing a starter on the field is a good thing as well.

And if we’re going to talk about “cheating”, don’t forget the Colts making a last second substitution and not giving SF time to do the same. That’s “cheating” just as much as “faking” a leg cramp is.

But are you seriously saying that someone can’t disagree with you BBS? Someone can’t write their opinion such as accusing the 49’ers and not Singletary?

Get over yourself.

If someone has that opinion, call them out….but don’t tell them to read something else and hit the road.I give you and the other writers kudos for the hard work you put into this place, but remember, it is the difference of opinion that makes this place a blog that we are all proud of and it is the PARTICIPATION that makes it a blog and not something established. Otherwise, you’re no better than the private media that do not include the fan.

That’s why I love this blog

at least two of their big stars, with the Colts down near their red zone.
That time it was even more obvious because they happened on the same drive, within a couple of plays of each other, two different guys.
It was a home game, ‘cause I remember the crowd booing, and the Colts were in the hurry-up. Can’t remember what year, but probably 2004.

like the Pats fans like to say. Frankly, I imagine coaches like Belichek and Singletary think they’re really very clever for coming up with it.

Do I think they faked the cramps? Yes. Do we need to spend an entire day harping on it after the Colts WON THE GAME? No. If punshment is due, the league will handle it. I have always been proud of the Colts as an organization and their fans for being welcoming hosts and good stewards of the league. Beating this topic into the ground reeks of pettiness! It didn’t inflict any injuries on our players and ultimately had no effect on the outcome. Move on. Next game.

Ok…I think faking an injury is b.s and bush league, but isn’t it a given that it isn’t a rarity to see it in an NFL game for various reasons? Bottom line, Colts won despite the b.s. and the next time we play the 49er’s, Mike Singletary will probably be at home reflecting on his short career as an NFL head coach. So on to next week, Colts are going up against one of the best receivers in the league and the status of one of our top cover corners is unknown, at least I dont know it….What’s up with Hayden? Can we talk about things that actually mean something?

any word on how long he is out for?

None of this surprises me. In a world and country where “wrong” is right and “right” is wrong, the stunts pulled by the 49’rs represent conditions of a foul cesspool of a city, and, a state where all of “what’s wrong with the world” is embraced with wide open arms! Those of us whom study the daily decline of civilization take a break with a bit of sports only to find “the game” coated in the same slime that coats education, politics (especially now), faith, science, and business. Is there no hope for dignity, integrity, or morality? Of course not in the hell-hole of San Francisco, but, perhaps, in a locker room in Indianapolis, there are a few men with the guts to stand up and be counted. Tony Dungy used his strong faith and morality to instill and ethic into the staff and team in blue and white. His replacement appears to be a man of courage and honor. Let us hope he continues leading the Colts away from the cliff’s edge of Belichickian madness.

 Dallas Clark(TE IND) 7th in NFL receiving, 46(REC)- 57(TAR)(81%), 584(YDS), 12.7(AVG), 3TD, 80(LONG), 7(20+), 83.4(YPG), 1(FUM), 240(YAC), 21(1stDWN) in 7 games.

Owen Daniels(TE HOU) 13th in NFL receiving, 40(REC)- 57(TAR)(70%) , 519(YDS), 13.0(AVG), 5(TD), 44(LONG), 8(20+), 64.9(YPG), 1(FUM), 219(YAC), 28(1st DWN) in 8 games.

Nice try.

im not here to say they were or were not faking. but the second instance with takeo spikes looked real. his biceps were flexed his face was grimacing. not fake. i love my colts radio crew-bob is awesome-but i have a better view in high definition sitting on my couch than they do up in the press box. we won be happy and quit whining about a player with a cramp. if they faked it then oh well. not one fan in that stadium can definetively say they were faking it. personally i was disappointed with our home crowd for booing someone that may have really been in pain (which their facial expressions seemed to suggest they were). im more concerned with the lack of class by our fans than i am with whether or not singletary is related to beli-cheat.

Blue thank you for saying what all of us know is the truth. We are collectively hurting the moral fabric of soceity when we communicate “It’s only cheating if you can prove it in court or you are caught red-handed”. There actually is a thing called winning and losing with honor and it is important to correctly identify such to the community at large and to our children!

There’s a reason this once small humble Colts site has become one of the biggest sports blogs on the internet. Keep making them talk Big Blue!

first of all everyone knows that the cess-pool of all things immoral resides in massachusetts. and second of all if you come on here to complain about the moral fabric of our society then youre preaching to the wrong congregation. this is a colts forum not a push your pesimistic views of our country down peoples throats forum. keep your religious and social views to yourself. you dont like our society—get out from behind the computer and go out into the world to change it. or shut up. thank you to our defense for another stellar game. thank you joseph for making the ugliest td pass of the season. and special thanks to matt “strange stance” stover and pat “hunter who” mcfee for leading an excellent special teams corp on sunday—go colts

If you aren’t cheating you aren’t trying.

IMO, if the need were there I would hope that the Colts would do this exactly. You win games however you can, and this ‘cheating’ is an example. It is an unprovable and perfect cheat. Exactly the kind that should be implemented. I applaud them for using these tactics. I’m no boyscout and I try to keep a realistic world view and cheating happens, every game, every team. So good for the 9ers cant blame em a bit.
Long story short we still won. It didn’t matter one bit.

that when a player injury resulted in the stoppage of time the player’s team would be charged a time out? If so when did they do away with this?

Is this the same Colt team who coincidentally alegedly had artificial crowd noise from the speakers?

Is this the same one in which ALEX SMITH’S headset “coincidentally” went out at the start of their two minute drill just before half time?

Look, you can’t prove a d*mn thing. Sure, MAYBE they got themselves free timeouts. MAYBE. But, unfortunately for you, there isn’t a shred of evidence that this conspiracy theory is true. Not one single shred. All you have is a possible motive. Nothing else. No EVIDENCE at all. You have no more evidence that the 49ers were getting free time outs by faking cramps than I do that the Colts deliberately screwed up the 49ers helmet radio in quarterback Alex Smith’s helmet just before their 2 minute drill.

Thus, you fail.

Honestly, folks. That’s now two separate sources, both covering two different sides of the game (one the Colts announcers, the other a writer for the SF Chronicle) who saw the same thing: Cheating. If you need more proof than that, then I don’t know what to tell you. Maybe you think the Earth is flat as well.

You can’t honestly be serious. Because three people thought the Niners faked injuries, that must be so. And anyone who disagrees with you is akin to denying the Earth is round. This is a laughable proposal.

And what if the Niners did cheat? Can we be sure, no. So notice how no other “source” belittled the Niners coach so much without definite proof. That is what is angering Niners fans so much, not the fact that you say they cheated. How do you know Singletary even called for that? It couldn’t have been a defensive coach or one of the players doing it on their own? You have no idea, but you’ve ridiculed a coach repeatedly anyway. For two plays. What your doing is embarassing for yourself and Colts fans, it’s said that you don’t see it.

been one of the most respected men in the NFL.

BBS is a crybaby.

It’s not CHEATING, as it can’t be proven (unlike say using steroids or throwing spitballs).

Try to follow along. Since nobody can say for sure that the players in question WEREN"T injured . . . there goes your ‘cheating’ theory.

It’s a TACTIC (used on a regular basis) designed to slow down the ‘no-huddle’ offense.

Your ‘outrage’ over a commonly used tactic in the NFL is humorous . . . and PATHETIC!

You can ban me (I’ve been banned a million times all over the place) but you CANNOT defeat me.

It cannot be PROVEN that those players weren’t injured (unlike, say finding actual PROOF that a player used steroids or applied a foreign substance on a baseball) so it’s a meaningless accusationn.

Who the F++K is he to call Mike Singletary a BUM?

It’s easy to shoot your mouth off over a blog. I’d like to see him say that to his face.

Pathetic.

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…so I figured I would. From the NFL 2009 rule book:

Supplemental to Rule 4, Section 4, Article 4:

“(4)The Rules Committee deprecates feigning injuries, with subsequent withdrawal, to
obtain a timeout without penalty. Coaches are urged to cooperate in discouraging
this practice.”

Therefore, definitively, feigning injury is not against the rules in this instance. It’s just frowned upon, because you obviously can’t prove it one way or the other. Circumstantial evidence, however, goes a long way in my opinion.

Aparently you are convinced Mike Singletary is a bum and cheater based on the possibility that two of his players faked injuries. If indeed they did cheat, don’t you think the NFL would or should do something about it? My guess is they won’t because there is NO proof that they did. For you to question Singletary"s integrity based on what may or may not have happened speaks volumes about your integrity. I would love to see you tell him what you think of his integrity to his face. Anybody can sit in an office and type all manor of b.s. about someone else without any fear of being called out on it. Nice article.

the fact that the Colts funnel in fake crowd noise to make it louder and harder to communicate for opposing teams? Isn’t that cheating as well?

but:
“Gee, I’ve never seen whining from a team after they’ve WON a game, but I guess that’s just how they roll in Bawston. Whine when they lose. Whine when they win. I guess they’re mad that they didn’t get to roll up 40 points on a team, or that their offense spent most of the day peeling themselves off the RCA turf rather than doing cartwheels into the endzone.
Honestly, is the collective age maturation of the New England Patriots that of a ten-year-old?”

Am I the only one sensing a tad bit of hypocriticalness here?