Where’s the Outrage?

What a disaster. The Colts do everything wrong in the first 25 minutes of the game. They have no defense. Their offense isn’t moving the ball. Everything that could go wrong did. Peyton even threw an interception. The score is 21 - 3. The crowd is out of the game. Stick a fork in them they are done. NOT!!! The defense stiffens. Peyton finds the only receiver who isn’t double covered - Dallas Clark. The Colts begin to…dare I say it - run the ball! There were plenty of opportunities for the Colts to say that the Patriots are the greatest and we can not overcome their hex. The Colts continued to fight. They battled.

Let me just tell you some numbers 27/47 for 349 yds, 1 TD and 1 INT. That was Peyton’s numbers against the great Belichek. Brady had an average day - 21/34 for 232 with 1 TD and 1 INT.

There were several great plays but 2 standout. First, it is 3rd and 3 from the 3 yard line. There is a little over a minute on the clock in the fourth quarter. The Colts have the ball. What was the call? Delay hand off up the middle. Addai scores. The PAT was good. Now, everyone is nervous. New England had about a minute on the clock and 2 timeouts and Tom Brady is the quarterback. 2 plays later, the Patriots are at the 44 yard line of Indy. They have used one timeout. There is 24 seconds left and they need to score a touchdown. Brady drops back, Freeney is coming fast and hard off the left corner.  Brady steps up and fires a dart over the middle. I think that Freeney got a hand on Brady. No matter. The ball was intercepted. Marlon Jackson makes a perfect hands interception and instead of trying to run one back, he drops to the ground. Game over.  Peyton only has to take a knee. That was probably the sweetest kneel down that Peyton has ever done. The crowd was losing their mind.

What a game. What a fantastic game. Peyton vs. Brady. Dungy vs. Belichek. The history of losing time after time to New England. To win like this was really remarkable.

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