Looked back on my post at the top and read the thread.
I had em: 1) 18--1; 2) Sunday; 3) Da Bears; 4) 2006; 5) ???
I'm gonna keep 18--1 at the top, agreeing with just about everyone else.
I'm definitely adding the Ben Dreith game to the list. Let's face it, it took a quarter century to exorcise that one in the tuck game. In fact I'm moving it up to #3.
I'm keeping the SB loss to Chicago on simply because it was such a drubbing and is still the gold standard of lopsided SB wins over teams that critics say "didn't belong" there, but I'm moving it down to #5, leaving 2006 at Indy as #4.
I still don't put last year's Ravens game on the list of the top 5. We now know a lot about the locker room problems that team had and so I see it as something that was inevitable. It makes my top ten, no doubt, but not my top five. Ditto with the Packers SB loss. I had a "doomed" feeling going into that game because of Parcells' selling the team out and putting his energies into his job change rather than into winning that game. Another one for my top ten.
What about Sunday?
In some ways we won't know whether it belongs towards the top of the list or maybe even off the list until we see how things evolve these next couple of seasons.
It could end up being a loss that just exposed our flaws, especially on Defense, and was therefore inevitable, as one poster put it very well. In that case, it doesn't even belong in the top five.
On the other hand, as a friend of mine put it the other day, it could be "the end of our mo-jo" and the end of an era. It could end up the kind of loss that it takes a long time to get over and that colors big games for several seasons. Or, it could end up as a launching ground for changes and additions. All depends on how the team responds in the off-season and next year.
So: 1) 18--1, 2) Sunday, 3) Dreith, 4) Indy 06, 5) Da Bears.
