Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas! I called my mom and thanked her for an early Christmas present yesterday. When she asked me what I wanted for Christmas, I said for the Colts to win a game this season. Man that woman is good.
That's right sports fans. The Colts got their first win of the season, at home, against a division rival, and they looked good doing it too. I knew all those weeks of faithfully watching would pay off eventually. And boy did it. Let me make a few comments first.
The refs were a little flag-happy. They kept making everyone repunt because they whipped out penalties that I had never heard of before. This poor hot-headed kid on the Titans special teams got eaten up. It was kinda rediculous. That kind of summed up Tennessee's day on special teams.
Now to the meat of things. Pat Angerer deserves a lot of credit for this win. He had a dozen tackles and two take-aways (a fumble and an interception). It seemed like everything the Titan's tried to do on offense, he was there. They could not run, impressive seeing at their RB Chris Johnson ran for 2000+ yards a couple of seasons ago. He had 55 rush yards, averaging less than 2 per carry. When they threw, if Angerer wasn't there, Jacob Lacey was. He had a takeaway of his own (Hasselback to Johnson, but Lacey ripped it from Johnson's hands and ran it back for a TD). Lacy had a career day, which was important with Jerraud Powers out for the season.
Donald Brown also had a carreer day with 161 yards, half of that coming on the longest run play in fanchize history, 80 yards. By the way, Orlovsky did great, but his best play was this one, when Brown reversed directions and he threw a block to level a guy in the backfield, allowing Brown to run to the endzone. It was great. In this game, it really looked like the Colts, minus Sheriff Manning, of course. By the way, Pollian announced that Manning will not play this season. Are you shocked by this? Me neither.
Rest of the League:
Let's go ahead and get the biggest upset of the day out of the way (Colts were #2, btw).
Chiefs-Packers. What the poo... the Chiefs came to play. They Packers never got off the bus. Seriously, KC played their hearts out and deserved the win. The Packers looked like they weren't even trying and deserved to lose. The pack dropped balls and messed around. They didn't even look excited when they scored. The Chiefs, however, gave Romeo a Gatoraide bath. Gotta love Romeo.
Panthers-Texans. Houston just had to win to get their first ever division title and trip to the playoffs. They lost (luckily, Indy helped them get in). By the way, Cam Newton-also a really entertaining QB to watch, but "It's Newton Time" just doesn't have the same ring to it.
Cards-Browns. Another crushingly close loss for the Browns, as has been their habit for the last 3 years.
Chargers-Ravens. It is upside down Sunday, so why not the chargers beat the Ravens? Sure. Now, the Ravens are a wild-card slot instead of division leader, unless the Steelers lose at some point (like tonight. go niners!) and the Ravens win out. It's sad really.
Eagles-Jets. Wow, the eagles actually played like a team for once. The Jets... continue to disappoint.
Seahawks-Bears. The Bears just looked bad. They just did. But not as bad as...
Redskins-Giants. I kinda feel bad for Manning. His receivers let him down against a divisional opponent with a chance at first place. But that's been the G-men this season: emotional win-phone it in the next week. If they recievers would have, I don't know, acted like they cared, they might have won. I'm just saying.
Lions-Raiders. Oakland darn near pulled it off, but there was no quit in the Lions. Well deserved.
Patriots-Broncos. Alas, this was an upset in a way. Yes, the final score is about like I predicted, and that Pansies-I mean Patriots were favored to win. But in another way, this wasn't the outcome people wanted. This was good verses evil. Tebow Time vs. the Chump. And the chump won. The reason I predicted this is that the Broncos have kept in games until the end, when "Tebow Time" takes over. But to beat the Patriots, you have to been in their face for 4 quarters, not just the 4th quater. They started out strong and got an early lead, they played like they have for the 2nd and 3rd of most of their games. You just can't win against the Patriots without cramming it down their throats for 4 quarters, offense and defense.
Saints-Vikings. Speaking of good verses evil... just look at their mascots. But good one. More to say the Vikings are terrible, and just behind the Colts for the #1draft pick. That's kind of a scary thought.
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