I said I fat fingered the 3 and shouldve hit the two. Look down for a minute..see the 2? Now see the 3? Theyre about 1/16th of inch apart. And by all means do hunt me down, since you were 10 years old when the Polian was with the Panthers, you just a pup and I'll own you and your stupid little world son.
Now, with the rest of the bs contained in your post. Maybe you have a reading problem...the Panther's hit a peak with Polian..and made the NFC championship in their second year in the league with a team built exclusively by him...the team could not sustain itself due to the fact it had only been involved in the NFL draft for 2 years and was still in its infancy. What part about this is hard for you to grasp, educate yourself. 3 years? Starting from scratch, is plenty of time to build a dynasty in your eyes....lol yeah ok. Stupidest freakin' comment of the year...but relax..you still have time to 1 up yourself.
By the way kiddo, the majority of contracts in the NFL at that time were of the 3 year variety...but since you were just a squirt back then (and in spirit obviously still are) I'll let that one slide..their 1-15 came in 2001...5 years after Polian had been gone..and the blame for that falls on him? You must be stupid, stupid, stupid. Dismissed.
Come on, "old man" (see, we can all be immature and act as if we are better than each other because of age, and, if you are such a smart man, that would make me 19 right now, and pretty damn capable of kicking your ass and "owning your stupid little world," but I'm above making e-threats to someone I've never met and know nothing about, other than that he thinks Wild Bill Polian is the man), you said you "fat fingered it" and "should have said 2" but you still made the claim that you said contenders and not Super Bowl teams, which was false. You continue to make excuses by "correcting" the miniscule and ignoring the obvious.
"I said he got them in "super bowl contention" I never said they got to the super bowl under Polian's tenure..they made the NFC championship in their second year..I fat fingered the 2 and shouldve been a 3."
You claim you said something that does not appear in any of your posts. If you just said you "fat fingered the 2 and shouldve been a 3" when talking about Super Bowl teams I would have dropped it and all would have been well, but you reworded your original post to make it seem as if you didn't make a mistake, and that is where I had the problem.
"I don't know how you'd define a "pickle," but, the last season Polian was in Carolina, the Panthers went 7-9. After he left the Panthers went 4-12, 8-8, 7-9, 1-15, and 7-9 before making it to the Super Bowl in '03. Now, my question was about the free agency fiasco and how Polian led to the demise of the Panthers and their struggles to maintain any semblance of competition, but for you to deny that they had any sort of pickle in their 12 year existence to defend Polian does nothing but make you look like a revisionist homer who should keep his opinions to himself."
Now, just because Polian "had nothing to do with the 1-15 season because NFL contracts were of the three year variety and he was 5 years removed from the job" (which, I will admit, I did not know, and if what you say is true, does mean that he isn't completely at fault) it doesn't change the fact that you said they were never in a pickle in their existence as a franchise.
See, you did blow me away with your knowledge of contractual length in the NFL in the late 1990s, but you do nothing for your awesome display of intellect when you consider one of the worst records in the history of the NFL not a pickle for a management team. And your choice of words when referring to the fact that I was 10 in the late 90s just makes you look like a ****.
ps. I didn't say you were a "Bill Polian 'homer'" because that would be ******ed, but if you are a Colts fan then it would not be unreasonable to assume that you would stick up for your GM. And to ignore certain areas of contention because he is your GM, or to falsify information, would make you a homer (and not of him, if I really do have to clarify myself, but of the Colts).