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Manning a "superstar" Sunday night (never mind the 6 ints)
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071112/COLUMNISTS01/711120396
SAN DIEGO -- Adam Vinatieri missed a clutch kick.
Sure, and the Pope will be hosting a toga party at the Vatican on Friday night.
Vinatieri might miss once in a while -- he's human, after all -- but he never, ever, ever misses when the game is on the line.
Who will ever forget that shot of Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy, standing on the sideline in Baltimore after Vinatieri's fifth field goal of the day put the Colts into the AFC Championship Game?
"Money,'' Dungy said.
And he is.
Or was.
Vinatieri missed a hurried field goal wide left near the end of the first half.
So when he lined up with a minute and a half remaining in the game, his Colts poised to engineer the biggest regular-season comeback in the team's history, you figured, "Hey, he's Vinatieri. He misses an easy one once, maybe, but twice? He can't miss twice."
He missed twice.
The shame of it was, the Colts deserved to win this football game. After all the obstacles they surmounted, after digging deep into the depth chart, they deserved to enjoy a long, happy flight back home from San Diego.
Consider what they had going against them:
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071112/COLUMNISTS01/711120396
SAN DIEGO -- Adam Vinatieri missed a clutch kick.
Sure, and the Pope will be hosting a toga party at the Vatican on Friday night.
Vinatieri might miss once in a while -- he's human, after all -- but he never, ever, ever misses when the game is on the line.
Who will ever forget that shot of Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy, standing on the sideline in Baltimore after Vinatieri's fifth field goal of the day put the Colts into the AFC Championship Game?
"Money,'' Dungy said.
And he is.
Or was.
Vinatieri missed a hurried field goal wide left near the end of the first half.
So when he lined up with a minute and a half remaining in the game, his Colts poised to engineer the biggest regular-season comeback in the team's history, you figured, "Hey, he's Vinatieri. He misses an easy one once, maybe, but twice? He can't miss twice."
He missed twice.
The shame of it was, the Colts deserved to win this football game. After all the obstacles they surmounted, after digging deep into the depth chart, they deserved to enjoy a long, happy flight back home from San Diego.
Consider what they had going against them: