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Know Your Colts History: The Most Interesting Video on the Internet

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Sadly, the video I'm about to link to can't be embedded so you'll have to head over here to watch it, but I think you'll find that it's worth the 3 minutes out of your day to watch.  I should warn you all ahead of time that the video comes from the 1995 AFC Championship.  This particular clip is from one of the better moments in the game, but if you still can't bear to look at anything from that game, you may not want to click that link.  However, if you have the stomach to bear it, there's a lot of good stuff packed into this video.

- It starts out with a graphic showing the quarterbacks with the most 4th quarter comebacks this season.  Jim Harbaugh and Neil O'Donnel were tied for the most with 4.  John Elway, Dan Marino, Steve Bono, Jeff George, Dave Krieg, and Rodney Peete all had three.

I was only 7 years old in 1995, but between that less than distinguished list of quarterbacks and the fact that Barry Switzer was the head coach of the Super Bowl champion leads me to think that 1995 was a weird year for the NFL.

- I dare you to look at Floyd Turner wearing jersey #88 and not feel uncomfortable about someone other than Marvin Harrison wearing that jersey.

- It's almost as hard to watch the running back go out in motion and not immediately think that Shaun Phillips is going to come off the corner and sack the QB.

- After Floyd Turner catches the touchdown pass, note how he celebrates right in the face of Darren Perry.  If that happened today, flags for unsportsmanlike conduct would've been flying before he even spiked the ball.

- As you can see on the graphic that followed his touchdown, that was Turner's 2nd TD catch in his playoff career, tying him with Raymond Berry, John Mackey and Jimmy Orr for the most touchdown catches in Colts postseason history.  Welcome to life in the pre-Manning era.  Just in case you were wondering, Reggie Wayne now holds that honor with 7 8 touchdown catches.

- Note how in the three minutes of video we see a touchdown, and extra point, and a kickoff without one commercial break.  Just another little thing that you'd never see happen today.

- If anyone ever doubts that this isn't a game of inches just watch how close Turner and Sean Dawkins come to colliding with one another on that play.  If that push by the Steelers defensive back had been just a little harder, that play falls apart.

- As much as I love this video, my favorite part might be in the comments.  Check this out:

Floyd Turner was involved in a money laundering scheme with some nigerians to steal approx 12 million from Bank One.  I'm not sure if Floyd Turner was convicted...but it was some evil stuff that went on. The nigerians that he was involved with got at least 10-14 yrs each. Floyd Turner turned snitch and got everybody caught. look it up on his wikipedia entry.

If you go to his Wikipedia page you'll find a link to this transcript that describes the whole thing.  Coincidentally, I found this in my spam folder a week and a half ago:

Dear Friend,

I am Mr. Jonathan Ikemba, Manager-Treasury Unit of a Bank in Lagos,
Nigeria. I am contacting you to assist in the claim of some outstanding
sum of money which was left by one of my very good clients who died in an
aircrash;AF4590 plane crash on his way from Germany to New York to join a
Caribbean cruise for a "vacation of a lifetime". He died with his wife,
two children and his wife's parents in that crash. Mr. Christian Eich ran
carmaker BMW's museum and an engineer with one of the foremost
construction firms here in Nigeria. He left no known next of kin and all
our attempts to trace someone related to him to whom we could pay the
money proved abortive. I have now personally decided to contact you to
stand on behalf of the family so I can present you as his next of kin
using my influence as a Manager of Treasury Department of this bank.The
amount involved is USD15.7 million (Fifteen million seven hundred thousand
United States Dollars) which is the account balance. You can view the news
article for more details on the death of Mr. Christian Eich.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm

I contacted you because it is against our code of ethics to own and
operate a foreign accounts and your assistance would be needed to claim
the money. I have agreed that 30% of the entire sum would be for you if
you agree to take part in this profitable transaction, 65% for me while
the remaining 5% would be used to pay back the expenses that may be
incurred during the course of the transaction by both parties after the
fund has been claimed as the next of kin.
You should send the following information's to me through my private email
address.

1. FULL NAMES.
2. CONTACT ADDRESS.
3. OCCUPATION.
4. DIRECT PHONE NUMBER.
5. COUNTRY OF ORIGIN.

Upon the receipt of the above information I shall send you more details.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Now I'm not saying that this e-mail is from one of Floyd Turner's operatives or if this is even the way that he went about scheming, but if he's in any way responsible for spamming my e-mail...things will not be pretty.

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After watching that clip,

it makes me yearn for the new NFL season even more… :-(

"Peyton Manning flow, I just go no huddle."
- Lil' Wayne, Put Some Keys on That

by KMR24 on Jun 19, 2009 12:39 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

1995 AFCCG

Well, watching that clip was moderately painful. I was waiting tables at what was probably the world’s biggest sports bar in Times Square for that game—about 25 humongous TVs all tuned to the game, the 700-seat restaurant filled to capacity, and I was probably the only Colts fan on the staff. Another reason to love Zach Crockett—that blitz pickup (on top of his previous week’s fill-in 100+ yard game when Faulk was injured). The DB chasing Floyd Turner looked like he was pushing a refrigerator while running.

Check out the other videos, especially Slash’s phantom TD. Talk about painful. The comments are pretty amusing as well.

Final note: I love Ted Marhcibroda. It goes back to the mid 70s.

I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.

by Bobman on Jun 19, 2009 1:53 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Sean Dawkins

Another reason I decided to root for the Colts when I got tired of the Raiders – he was my contemporary at Cal and a damned awesome receiver… at least in college!

How can you not love a team that does this?

by LovinBlue on Jun 19, 2009 11:28 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

It hurts.

It hurts so bad.

going on 14 years later, and I honestly still almost cry when I think about it.

I died a little that day.

I will never get over it.

18to88.com

by deshawn zombie on Jun 19, 2009 12:57 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Damn,

I remember how bad that one hurt. But thanks, I haven’t thought about how much fun Siragusa used to be. Every time that guy opened his mouth, he had me rolling on the floor.

by tim55 on Jun 19, 2009 1:02 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Siragusa opening his mouth

Tim, every time he did that I ran for fear he’d take a chomp out of me through my TV.

DZ, maybe that’s why it’s better that I saw it amid a giant crowd of semi-indifferent diners/sports fans. I could not wallow because I had to run dinner out to table 43, and I could not watch replay after replay until I got home at 4 am.

I hate Joe Namath. That's how long I've been a Colts fan.

by Bobman on Jun 19, 2009 5:49 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

RW Correction

Actually, he has 8 postseason TDs.

by Mr. Naptown on Jun 20, 2009 12:01 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

That's right

I was looking at the 2008 Media Guide, so they didn’t have his touchdown against San Diego this year.

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by JakeTheSnake on Jun 20, 2009 4:07 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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