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  • #61
    Originally posted by PacerDude View Post

    Maybe that's what you'll remember.
    What makes me scratch my head is that BasketballFan often feels that Colts fans are often too dismissive at what was accomplished in the Manning era........yet she’s saying we were never really that much of a rival with the Pats? What?! That’s the biggest insult I’ve ever seen lobbed at the Manning era Colts.

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    • #62
      Originally posted by Sollozzo View Post

      What makes me scratch my head is that BasketballFan often feels that Colts fans are often too dismissive at what was accomplished in the Manning era........yet she’s saying we were never really that much of a rival with the Pats? What?! That’s the biggest insult I’ve ever seen lobbed at the Manning era Colts.

      Except you keep making the Colts vs Pats and the Manning era interchangeable here when we played the Pats after Manning was released from the Colts. The results weren't pretty(we haven't even beaten them since actually). So no the Colts really weren't legit rivals I mean we did get an AFC title game win from them (which made it slightly less one sided) The Pats have stomped over the Colts countless times in the postseason in comparison.

      The Pats legit rivals if they have one at this point is past NFL dynasties.


      Originally posted by LuckSwagger View Post
      Colts-Pats was without question a rivalry in the 2000's. Anyone trying to argue it wasn't is either being dense or has a very strange definition of rivalry.


      I guess the Broncos and Pats weren't rivals when Manning played there, then. The Broncos were 2-0 in the postseason matchups. Completely one-sided.

      They weren't and it was more of a carryover of Brady vs Manning storyline than the Pats vs Broncos who didn't have much of a storyline beyond that. Its rather sad for the Colts that Manning had more postseason success vs the Pats in his short stint with the Broncos than he did here.

      You could argue Colts vs Pats in the 2000s was really more about Brady vs Manning as well because it sure hasn't been about the Colts franchise vs the Pats at this point.
      Last edited by Basketball Fan; 11-06-2018, 10:07 PM.

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      • #63
        I’ve read your post multiple times and don’t know what in the world you’re saying. It was Colts vs Pats for a long time......Manning played on the Colts for a while didn’t he? Lol. Colts also had a lot of other big name players, plus Dungy & Polian, who all contributed to the rivalry. Manning was also at his physical peak as a Colt.

        Manning and Brady in the postseason always came down to home field. Since you like to gloss over context, I’ll give you a refresher - the teams the Colts lost to in Foxboro in 03 and 04 were the absolute peak of the Pats dynasty with superior defenses to the teams Denver played a decade later. That’s why the challenge of beating them was so big, and that’s why the Colts finally having some success against them in the mid 2000’s was a big deal (the success which apparently torments you for some reason).

        Colts - Pats in the 2000’s was a major NFL rivalry. Everything that happened after Manning left doesn’t change that. You’re dead wrong and not a single soul who paid attention to the NFL over that period would agree with you.
        For some reason you like pouring cold water on anything good the Colts ever achieved, even with Manning. Very bizarre. Moving on.

        Most things can be debated, but this can’t. Never in my wildest dreams did I think a statement about the Colts-Pats being a rivalry at one time would be challenged lol.

        Rivalry doesn’t imply “dead equal success”. Yankees - Red Sox was considered a rivalry long before Boston started winning World Series titles again. I’m genuinely beginning to question if you were watching the Colts 10-15 years ago. And please don’t respond with what’s happened since 2011, not talking about that. It’s totally irrelevant to what happened from 03-10, which can’t be changed.
        Last edited by Sollozzo; 11-07-2018, 12:09 PM.

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        • #64
          The Colts Pats thing was always very interesting. Brady’s first career start was against the Colts. Brady had a lot of early success against Indianapolis, winning his first 6 matchups, 3 of which in dominant fashion, 2 of which were in the playoffs.

          Then Manning and the Colts went on a bit of a roll and won 4 in a row, and 5 of the next 6 including the epic AFC title game that completely changed the Pats and Brady forever (more on this in a minute).

          Brady and Manning needed one another to achieve the level of greatness both of them realized. Manning needed to watch how Brady leaned on his teammates and defense as opposed to looking to aggressively bomb it downfield every possession in order to win playoff games. Brady needed to watch Manning to realize the amount of control over the line of scrimmage that he could have as a QB. He went from a game Manager with decent numbers to the guy that broke the regular season TD record. These guys and these franchises sharpened eachother during this timeframe.

          Brady and Belichick have said countless times that they realized they needed to revamp their offensive system completely once they lost that AFCCG to Manning and the Colts. And that’s when we saw the birth of the offense that Brady has been running to perfection ever since.

          Once 18 and the Colts got that initial monkey off their backs, they scared the Pats shitless. Check out the Randy Moss acquisition. Check out the acquisitions of individuals that had legal/mental/off field issues but were talented (Pats never did that before 2007). Check out the control Bill have to Brady at the LOS to call the game. Check out that 4th and 2 call.

          Check the the ratings for those Colts/Pats primetime games. Check the week long media coverage prior to every matchup. Check the countless articles written. Check the quotes from the players. Feel animosity from the fans.

          Even though the Pats have the upper hand in most of the matchups, no other team or franchise had challenged those guys the way the Manning era Colts did. They weren’t rivalry without question
          Last edited by Ace E.Anderson; 11-07-2018, 12:29 PM.

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          • #65
            Great post Ace, obviously it was a rivalry lol. I’ve still yet to see any other NFL matchup that gets the national attention that those 03-10 Colts-Pats games got.

            Yes, Manning got the Pats in the playoffs twice at the end of his career in Denver (my favorite sports stat ever is Manning being 3-1 against Brady in the AFCCG), but Manning’s Denver career was short lived because of his age and just didn’t have the drama and animosity of the Colts-Pats days. The story back then was the Colts getting the monkey off their back against a prime dynasty. Also, those franchises despised each other (Polian complaining about the rules, etc).
            Last edited by Sollozzo; 11-07-2018, 01:48 PM.

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            • #66
              I forgot all about that, but yes. That was the birth of the illegal contact rule after the Pats mugged Marcus Pollard and Marvin Harrison in the snow at Foxboro.

              So much stemmed from that rivalry. I’m not sure what else you could even define that situation as

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              • #67
                Yes, “The Patriot Act” lol.

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                • #68
                  Ace raised another good point - the Pats absolutely changed their methods after losing that 07 AFCCG against the Colts. As has been stated, that was their third straight loss against Indy. When does that ever happen?

                  After that game, the Pats picked up Moss and turned into an enormous offensive juggernaut that slaughters teams to this very day. I definitely think losing three straight to the Colts got into their head a bit back then.

                  Pats got lucky that Moss was on such a cesspool franchise and just sitting there for the taking at a relatively young age still. Credit to them though because no one else beat them out. If the Pats don’t get Moss, the Colts would have beat them in 07 too. Moss had 145 yards and a TD against us that year lol. In 07, the Colts lost Harrison to injury while the Pats added Moss. That was the difference in that game but the Colts still had their chances.

                  There has never been any team as fearsome as the 07 Pats. The Giants beating them is the biggest team story in my lifetime along with the 04 Red Sox. And then they did it 4 years later lol, which was just surreal.
                  Last edited by Sollozzo; 11-08-2018, 11:13 AM.

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                  • #69
                    Originally posted by Ace E.Anderson View Post
                    The Colts Pats thing was always very interesting. Brady’s first career start was against the Colts. Brady had a lot of early success against Indianapolis, winning his first 6 matchups, 3 of which in dominant fashion, 2 of which were in the playoffs.

                    Then Manning and the Colts went on a bit of a roll and won 4 in a row, and 5 of the next 6 including the epic AFC title game that completely changed the Pats and Brady forever (more on this in a minute).

                    Brady and Manning needed one another to achieve the level of greatness both of them realized. Manning needed to watch how Brady leaned on his teammates and defense as opposed to looking to aggressively bomb it downfield every possession in order to win playoff games. Brady needed to watch Manning to realize the amount of control over the line of scrimmage that he could have as a QB. He went from a game Manager with decent numbers to the guy that broke the regular season TD record. These guys and these franchises sharpened eachother during this timeframe.

                    Brady and Belichick have said countless times that they realized they needed to revamp their offensive system completely once they lost that AFCCG to Manning and the Colts. And that’s when we saw the birth of the offense that Brady has been running to perfection ever since.

                    Once 18 and the Colts got that initial monkey off their backs, they scared the Pats shitless. Check out the Randy Moss acquisition. Check out the acquisitions of individuals that had legal/mental/off field issues but were talented (Pats never did that before 2007). Check out the control Bill have to Brady at the LOS to call the game. Check out that 4th and 2 call.

                    Check the the ratings for those Colts/Pats primetime games. Check the week long media coverage prior to every matchup. Check the countless articles written. Check the quotes from the players. Feel animosity from the fans.

                    Even though the Pats have the upper hand in most of the matchups, no other team or franchise had challenged those guys the way the Manning era Colts did. They weren’t rivalry without question

                    Except you're talking about something else entirely here you're making it about Brady/Manning and the impact of the NFL, careers, more than the Pats vs Colts. The Colts still have to deal with the Pats after Manning and failed miserably.

                    The Ravens ended the Pats run a couple times more than we did in the postseason actually but they weren't really a rivalry when it came down to it either. Same with the Broncos/Pats and that involved Brady vs Manning which the whole ratings, narratives etc could be used for that too the only thing that changed was Manning went elsewhere.

                    The Manning years made the Pats vs Colts a little less laughable as far as the games were concerned. However when it comes to the two franchises it still meant very little when they have 5 SBs which were mostly at our expense compared to the 1 SB win we were able to get at their expense.

                    The Pats are the Yankees and the Colts were the Atlanta Braves I mean its nice for what it was and I appreciate it but to say its on par with the Pats/Yankees as far as rivalries well yeah I can't really buy into that either. Not when its been so one sided.

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                    • #70
                      Lol Manning was on the Colts and Brady was/is on the Pats. This isn’t tennis or golf. With players that great, the entire teams get dragged into the moment.

                      After reading multiple posts of yours, I really don’t know what point you’re trying to make. You’re talking about the Yankees and Braves even though they aren’t even in the same league (AL, NL). Ace gave a thorough run down of the history while all you’re saying is that the Pats are a better franchise than the Colts.......even though no one is challenging that obvious fact. What happened in 2015 had zero to do with how the rivalry was perceived in 2006 unless you were able to look into the future.

                      Its just weird: you’re a Colts and Manning fan right? Why can’t you just admit that they were part of a great rivalry that was acknowledged by the other 7 billion people on Earth? Just bizarre for a Colts fan to pour cold water on such an interesting part of the team’s history.
                      Last edited by Sollozzo; 11-07-2018, 08:43 PM.

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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by Sollozzo View Post
                        ……….. you’re a Colts and Manning fan right?...……...
                        No. She's a Manning fan first and a Colts fan because that's where he played. And she thinks the Colts did Manning wrong at the end and simply holds that against the organization. Despises Irsay, all snide remarks about the post-Peyton Colts …………

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                        • #72
                          I guess the Lakers-Celtics in the Magic-Bird era wasn’t really a rivalry because after all, Bird’s Celtics only beat the Lakers in one NBA Finals while Magic’s Lakers beat Boston twice. Also, the Lakers have been way more successful than Boston over the last 25 years, which I guess cheapens the Magic-Bird rivalry. Never mind the countless array of documentaries, interviews, books, and endless references to Magic/Bird in American pop culture over the last 35 years.
                          Last edited by Sollozzo; 11-08-2018, 11:27 AM.

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                          • #73
                            The late 2000's was the golden age of Colts football. We had seven straight seasons of 12+ wins (a league record at the time, that New England has since broken, and keeps adding onto), a Super Bowl win, another Super Bowl appearance, and of course, all those memorable games with the Pats. The buildup for that AFCCG was insane...it was all I thought about the entire week leading up to it. Then, less than 10 months later, a regular season game where both teams were unbeaten. I've never seen a more hyped regular season game than that one. Then there was the 4th and 2 game...and the crazy comeback led by Manning that got us to that point. Manning almost brought us back from a big deficit the next year in Foxboro before he panicked and got picked off in the final minute when all we needed was a field goal to tie.


                            We are probably the only team that ever put a scare into Brady/Belichick and the Pats fanbase. Nobody ever comes back on them, they're always the ones doing it to other teams. I always took some pride in that we could scare the best team of our generation like that. It just blows my mind that any Colts fan would be so dismissive of that era and those games.


                            Next thing you know, someone will be claiming Hicks vs. Knicks wasn't a rivalry because no championships were won...

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                            • #74
                              Last week when Tennessee beat Dallas, everyone just assumed it was a classic of case of Dallas being Dallas. Then the Titans beat the crap out of the Pats this weekend. Titans might be becoming a bit scary.

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                              • #75
                                ^^ I prefer to look at it as the Patsies starting their decline.

                                I hope. We all hope.

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