BradysBunch12
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.I don't understand this thinking at all. None of this stuff matters? Super Bowls don't "matter" either. Championship titles don't affect us except for bragging rights in a bar. To the extent sports matter, something like 19-0 matters a lot. Some team wins a Super Bowl every year--theoretically, the team that wins the Super Bowl could suck.
Several comments :
1) The Colts going 16-0 wouldn't have been a historical achievment because it's already been done.
2) The Colts' consecutive regular season record is stupid as they lost a playoff game in the middle of it. The Patriots didn't lost in the middle of their 21 in a row in the regular season.
3) The Colts haven't won the most games this decade - the Patriots have.
19-0 means nothing. "Undefeated" is what matters, not the game numbers. That's why 17-0 is still pointed to, and not 18-1.
But, if 16-0 didn't matter, or only made you go "hmmmm", Colts fans wouldn't be looking for the tar and feathers right now.
Well, Bill Polian, at least we don't have a team that is scared to achieve greatness.
Why does consecutive regular season games matter? What's the significance of that? Really.
In baseball it matters for obvious reasons. Because there are no losses when that record is set. But in football, the record is meaningless if you lost a playoff game in the midst of setting the record.
As a guy who remembers the Steve Grogan/John Hannah/Russ Francis days, I love you guys calling me a band wagon fan. I make a pilgrimage to Foxborough every year from Toronto and have done so since 1981. Because I don't share your perspective on the importance of a 16-0 season, you call me a band wagoner and swear at me. Ok boys, you've got it all figured out. My mistake!!
"If you can't appreciate the 2007 season for what it was, you're not a real fan and you can GTFO the bandwagon now, thanks."
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Joined in 12/2007 - - at the very end of the Patriots' perfect season????
And you're calling someone ELSE a bandwaggoner????
THAT gets a good laugh.
You're bullying of another fan gets you 5 infraction points and a warning not to do it again.
If Payton busts his hand on a helmet during a follow through, that whole franchise is in deep $$%$. If Polian is uncomfortable now with the heat that his or his coaches decision to rest starters is causing, can you imagine the fire if Manning can't go when the playoffs start.
That is why I understand the decision.
I simply don't place the same importance on 16-0 that you and some others do.
How about getting an additional first round pick awarded by the league for going 16-0. Then it would mean something to me. And it would likely eliminate the Colts or any other team not going for it. Just an idea!
They're upset because they were denied the chance at 19-0 or an undefeated FULL (not just regular) season. And yes, the actual numbers mean nothing, but complete perfection is the touchstone.
They could care less about TYING what the Pats already were the first to do. 16-0 in 2009 by itself would make them Buzz Aldrin, not Neil Armstrong. Or Larry Doby instead of Jackie Robinson. Can you tell me the SECOND Amercian woman in space after Sally Ride without Googling it? 19-0 (or the perfect season) would be remembered for decades (just ask Don Shula). 16-0 without the SB win this year would be a big woop.
all that said...they went for it for which iam grateful.iam stunned by analysts like jamie dukes who keep saying undefeated doesnt mean anything ..look at the patriots in 07. As if the pats lost the SB because 18-0 and not because of a crappy game+giants defense.
How is going 18-0 to the SB a recipe for disaster. ? i can never find the correlation.
Shmessy - Sorry, but your comments are as pathetic as his. Equating length of time on a message board with whether or not someone is a bandwagon fan.
You can give yourself 10 infraction points and hang up your title as moderator for that dumbness.
DaBruinz - I don't think shmessy meant it in that manner. I saw it as a well delivered point that drew attention to the irony of a relatively newly joined fan calling somebody else a bandwagon fan. Simple.
Back to the OP - Before reading the link, I wondered if this was some fan overreacting to an unintended remark by an individual known for his clumsiness in public. But after reading it, I am convinced that he has the Pats logo for his target practice and has sleepless nights furious with envy at our records/success.
Not sure, but I believe it would have been Christa McAuliffe had the Challenger not exploded...