With the Saints dropping a game to the Decemberists, the Colts remain the lone undefeated team at 14-0 but more importantly they give us, the NFL watching public, hope that maybe this is the year that some team goes undefeated and renders the delusional 72 Dolphins irrelevant once and for all. This needs to happen before they all start dying off like the wooly mammoth. I mean, I’m looking forward to that day as well. Aren’t we all? But I want to able to witness a bummed out Buoniconti, a grumpy Griese, a ticked Kiick. These insufferable pricks have been thrusting their played out masturbatory ‘We’re the bestest team ever!’ antics on us for too long. This team means nothing to anyone under the age of 40. And they’re not the best team ever. They played football eight years after the Beatles debuted in America. It’s another era. This year’s Colts team would hang 80 on them. In fact so would every single one of these teams:
a) The Saints
b) The Lions
c) Last year’s Lions
d) The Raiders taxi squad jointly coached by Tom Cable and Randy Hanson
e) Boise State
And this is where Peyton could endear himself to the football fans forever. We all know he’s the one calling the shots in Indianapolis (Jim Caldwell is a combination of CGI, green screen technology and claymation). Instead of taking it easy and sitting out these last two weeks, Peyton and the Colts owe it to my generation to put the 72 Miami team out to pasture. He already has a ring. He’s already a Hall of Famer. Another ring is nice but it’s not going to launch Manning’s legacy into another stratosphere. It will get him into ‘the best QB ever’ conversation but it necessarily wouldn’t seal it for him. An undefeated season in this day and age hasn’t been done. It would mean something. It’s a level above a championship. Michael Irvin is talking himself blue in the face recently trying to convey this point, but no one is listening to him probably because he used to smoke crack and stab his teammates with scissors. But he’s right. Manning would set himself apart from the crowd (Brady especially) and Mercury Morris’s grill wouldn’t appear on television again save for the occasional late night hair restoration informercial. It’s a win-win for everyone.
Please Peyton. Make this happen. I don’t ask for much.
