
(Skipping ahead in the action...)
• It's a Troy Polamalu interception with 5:26 to play. Huge play.
• Okay, perhaps not. I just deleted a sentence about how unnecessarily long that booth review was, when it seemed so obvious that it was an interception. How that got overturned, I have no idea. Oh, man. This is Tuck-Rule-esque.
• And in the blink of an eye, the Colts are in the endzone, followed by a two-point conversion catch by my homey Reggie Wayne. This is just incredible.
• The fired-up Colts defense gets a quick stop, and Peyton Manning has 2:32 from his own 18-yard-line to get the Colts into at least a tie. Giddy. With. Excitement.
• On a 4th and 16, the Steelers bring major heat and end it. The AFC Championship game is in Denver, and neither Peyton Manning or Tom Brady are invited.
• AHHHHH! AHHHHH! AHHHHHH! Jerome Bettis fumbles, and Nick Harper of all people picks it up and bolts down the field. Roethlisberger makes the stop for the Steelers at their 40.
• Here comes Mike Vanderjagt from 46, to send it into overtime for the Colts.
• Wide right. Now you may see the entry three items above. Unreal.













Comments
The proper English term for this is, "holy crap." And that wasn't an interception? What college conference did they borrow that ref from?
It's like for a minute I almost believed in God, and then I was really disappointed because it meant that God was a Colts fan, and then Vanderjagt missed the kick and reaffirmed my faith in nothing. Amazing!
Big Ben deserves player of the week for that tackle of Nick "Slashee" Harper. Seriously.
If god's not a steelers fan, then how come urine is yellow?
So, I wonder if the "idiot kicker" is going to go around shooting his mouth off this off-season? And I've got to say, I was pulling for the Colts, but how that wasn't an interception I just can't understand.
We bitch about women having uncontrollable mood swings. Imagine if they saw us during that fourth quarter. --Suss
As soon as that kick went wide right I started laughing uncontrollably
me, in my Greg Lloyd jersey, watching the 4th quarter: Major celebration Despair Major celebration Despair Major celebration Despair Major celebration Holy shit. I'm going to go fill my toilet bowl with some Steelers gold. And I'm not flushing it until after the Super Bowl.
I guess that the non-interception was some sort of obscure rule they have in the NFL, comparably bizarre to the college rule that says something like "On fourth down, if the ball carrier fumbles, and the ball moves forward, the original ball carrier must recover the ball or the ball will be moved back to the spot of the fumble." I was rooting for the Colts, too, but they in no way deserved to win that game at all, so I guess that Earl's karma struck again. Barely. Idiot kicker.
That overrule of the interception is proof that David Stern is commissioner of the NFL, as well as the NBA.
Thank you Peyton Manning and Tony Dungy for erasing all doubt and proving once and for all that you are the biggest choke tandem in NFL history. I actually went into this weekend wanting the Colts to win because they had the best chance to dethrone the Patriots. As soon as Denver won last night, I realized that the most annoying team left suddenly became Indy. Thank you Dungy and Manning for making next Sunday the greatest conference championship weekend in years.
hey, say all you want about the "idiot kicker" but the Colts lost this as a team. Vanderjagt should have never been put in that position in the first place. Yes, the most accurate kicker in the league should have been more "accurate" but then again....shit happens.
Oh...and the debate over who is better - Brady or Manning - is officially over. Manning always had an excuse: -his team never had a defense -they never had home field -bad calls against them -no luck This time, he got everything...and choked anyway. Brady is the king (despite what happened against Denver), and always has been.
Anyone who watches and knows football would say the Steelers had the upperhand, and Vanderjagt is was not the problem. Manning and James did nothing and the Colts were only within striking range due to some questionable calls. Steelers won this, fair and square. Steelers.
Jerome Bettis, meet Ernest Byner. Only the choke of choke of chokes could stop it. How about Peyton not leading a winning TD drive that put the idiot kicker in position to lose? Choker.
Wow - did anyone hear Peyton Manning's postgame comments? [I'm paraphrasing here - don't have the direct quote] "I want to be a good teammate, but we had some protection problems..." Wow. Way to lose like a champ, you 3-6 playoff choker. True colors - what a scumbag.
Could not have said it better myself Roy ... I can't believe he would put this on his o-line ... actually, I can ... he is a manning and all of that brood are spoiled brats ... hey peyton, go home with eli and cry yourself to sleep in your bunkbeds with matching smurfs sheets ... maybe mommy will bring you some milk and cookies bitch
yeah, oh but too bad your fucking smurf sheets are floating somewhere in Lake Ponchartrain. ouch. that was wrong. I apologize. what a douchebag though. when he started to say he was trying to be a good teammate, I thought he was taking the high road on not calling out Vanderjagt the way that idiot had called him out, and then he goes after the O Line. unbelievably classless.
Did Manning blame Dungy's son for having to go kill himself in the middle of this season and wreck Manning's rythym? I wouldn't put it past him.
Does this mean it was never Belichick or the Pats? Just Peyton being the king of chokers all along? And I love him calling out protection problems. HEy, who's the guy changing every play and changing red zone plays to runs. Loser.
My question is, how does Dungy bounce back from his quarterback overriding him? Absolutely nutty. In that one moment of arrogance, Peyton put himself in the same spotlight as T.O. (Hehehehe....there's nothing funnier than typing "T.O." at the end of a sentance. It's almost a substitute for "Angel of Death" or "Hepatitis C".)
Indy fans can blame the loss on Nick Harpers wife.If she didn't stab him in the knee maybe he could have run that fumble back at the end of the game. Rothlesberger read the scouting report. A slight touch to the knee and he'll drop. Harpers obviously got no hand in that relationship
It's one for the thumb time...
I wonder how popular that kid's hip hip, ehem, rap song is these days? 14 and 3--golf course bound?
Had the Bettis fumble been returned for a score, it would have joined the "Immaculate Receptipon" as the two most amazing plays in NFL history.
Sure bet Vanderjagt will be hitting the bottle pretty hard tonight.
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