That's Patrick Crayton, not Michael and, yeah, he just gave up on what should have been a touchdown.

After Santana Moss gave away the Washington season doing the same thing last week, I would have thought every receiver still playing would have had it drilled into their heads not to do that. Those guys are lucky I'm not their coach or owner, because if I was, they would have been cut before they hit the sidelines.

"[m]atriculating the ball down the field"

It drives me crazy when the TV guys completely misuse the word matriculate like this. With all the colorful terms available to them that they could use correctly, it's depressing that they all copy each other using a term that is so completely misplaced.

King, I've always thought you were several cuts above the TV guys in the intelligence department, so I'm hoping you were saying this with tongue in cheek.

The nationwide prayer vigil against that shameless harlot Jessica Simpson worked.

Have you noticed that only blue states are left in the NFL championships? Divine retribution?

Neil

It was a joke. A subtle one, but like all of King's best jokes, particularly funny a few minutes later when you see exactly what he did there.

Finally some justice in the NFL! The Colts' ownership and management, and the NFL itself, continue to arrogate to Indianapolis the heritage of the Baltimore Colts (did you notice in the CBS broadcast yet another specious comparison of Manning to Unitas which was made only because they wore the same symbol on their helmets?). Despite the association of admirable people with this illegitimate franchise, such as Dungy, Manning,and, frankly, all current players, who are blameless, karma dictates that it never achieve ultimate success in the post-season. In football justice Brian Billick was supposed to prevent the Colts' Super Bowl appearance last year. Had he done so he'd still be Ravens coach today.

The Tony and Jessica saga.

Go to the sportsbar. The lion's share of the male audience either looks like Woody Allen, or some kind of over fed two-legged farm animal. Know-it-alls with team jerseys on. And a few gals roaming around, frustrated that's this is what the choices have come down to......The guys vicariously living through the players, coaches, and games. The overwhelming focus of their lives has somehow become the diamonds, courts, and fields presented on an HD screen. Piles of wings and pitchers of brew.

Many are celibate or so close to it that we can consider it the practical equal. Even the married ones. Not intentional celibacy mind you, it just happened. Yet still erect and rigid.

Now we have the star quarterback jetting off to the beach with his piece of ass in the middle of the sacred and holy playoffs. And so the nerds excitedly dive in head first (or belly flop) like from the cliffs of Acapulco trying to decide what it all means. Or if it means anything. Did it affect the game? Absorbing the analysis of the media commentators, their nerd first cousins. T.O. is crying in the pressroom now. Isn't he the cat that got this ball rolling? Jerry Jones is on the sidelines with the proverbial corncob stuck up his butt. God knows what he thinks. It's all an inevitable psychological (or pathological) fate-accompli--the end result (or climax) of decades of increasing emphasis on sports in America.

Woody the wannabe athlete and his unfulfilled woody. Millions of them.

Sorry, karma has already failed you. They won last year. If there is any karma, the Pats will lose one of their next 2 games. And besides, football teams move. Not all of them, Green Bay likely never will, but many do. Look at the Cardinals, Rams, Raiders, etc... The Colts moved a long time ago and, as you mention, none of the players on the team were in football back then.

Then again, one can look at Bellicheck's desire to win at any cost as a result of the Browns moving, so maybe moving a franchise can have long-lasting, detrimental effects.

It's a reference to an old soundbyte, I believe of Hank Stram. It wouldn't be funny the way Chris Berman would have said it (complete with attribution and hammy impression). But just as a throw-in, it gave me a smug chuckle of shared knowledge.

GET OVER IT ALREADY. Nothing is more irritating than sports fans who grovel in long-ago injustices, such as the Colts midnighting it to Indy or who revel in ancient glories, such as 35-year-old Yankees fans screaming "26 World Championships" when they weren't even egg cells when those rings were won.

Indy viscerally felt Dwight Freeney's absence yesterday. I don't think Rivers was touched all afternoon. And all defensive players, including Bob Sanders, took really bad angles on Darren Sproles' TD.

As disappointed as I was in the Colts loss, it made me feel a little better to witness Tony Romo's unraveling. I am so sick of the talk about his happy-go-lucky demeanor, his aw-shucks grin, whatever. Even worse is the rush to coronate him King of the NFL. Dude hasn't won a playoff game and plays for a jowly coach who also hasn't won a playoff game--can we hold off on the superlatives for a bit? And not that it matters on the field, of course, but in post-game press conferences he dresses like an extra from Miami Vice (TV show, not movie). Lose the linen blazers and gold chains, please.

Most Yankees fans were not alive when their early rings were won, of course.

The question you really should be asking is:

"What does it say about Baltimore that Indianapolis was considered a better option?"

Actually T. Romo wins anyway with a new over-inflated contract, a pretty girlfriend that is rich and he is a mediocre q'back to say the most. There is no way in Hell that NY will beat the packers or NE Lose to the Chargers.

NE with snow or not 38-13

Packers with snow or not 24-13

Good really good to see the Cowboys lose at home in front of all those so-called americas team fans. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

Also, very true about all those sports bar maniacs. What a bunch of overweight football high school hero romantics.

Try going to a sports bar and watch any other sport but football, basketball and baseball and they look at like you landed in from mars.

Go New England! 19-0