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fuk. if my money wasn't also on the over I'd be really fkn pi$$ed. I did not expect this game to be close. After the 1st half I was sure I was right. Didn't see this coming at all. Congrats to the Colts, they made the key adjustments. (However, I still think Dungy takes Gordon Johncock's victory flag up the arse)

My suggestion would be to watch a college hockey game...try a Beanpot game for instance. You'll see kids going full out, 100%, crashing each other into the boards, bone-jarring open ice hits, etc. There is a reason hockey players skate in minute or less shifts...its grueling if you're playing the game right. This topic has been debated publicly before...check out the results in this poll from ESPN: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills

Agree Ted, and the line will likely reflect this by being closer to even come game time. Personally I'd take the Pats GIVING one or two...but luckily I don't have to.

Ya know, I was just thinking about our H.S. soccer team and the kids on it when I was in HS. The team was made up mostly of Italian kids who came from this one section of town called the Grove. They attended the same elementary school where the HS coach was a gym teacher. They played a lot of soccer in elementary school, thus being the most proficient come HS time. Some of these kids were incredible athletes. Two kids who made all-league my Sr. year were also all-league basketball players. Another kid who was a couple years older than me was the starting CF on the baseball team before I played there...he was fast and had a gun for an arm. Some of these kids ran track...motha fukkas were fast as hell, I mean these kids could flat out fly. The team during these years was consistently a state title contender. None of these kids, and I know many of them very well, would ever state that soccer was as tough to play as football. Sure they'd say they run a lot. But they'd never have the balls..or stupidity... to say the two sports are nearly the same in terms of physical toughness. Enough already, ok?

Football is a much more physically demanding sport with an inherently greater chance for serious injury. This does not mean that "soccer is for pansies"...as one poster pointed out, the lines that seperate whpo plays what aren't toughness and talent alone, it includes preference, an individuals geneticly-determined body type, etc. To flat out call all soccer players pansies is silly. Although they often do roll around on the ground like they've been shot then suddenly bounce up and they're ok, so do hockey players (especially Europeans) and hockey is no pu$$y sport. However to say anyone can play football and try to equate the level of physical contact and violence is ridiculous.

I don't think Bonds would want to continue his pursuit of the HR record on Boston...its tougher to hit 'em out here, and he knows injuries are taking their toll.

fred, instead (assuming they settle things with Drew) we'll be cringing every time a ball goes JD Drew's way, collectively saying "please don't let him break a nail and miss 20 games".

my money is on the Pats.

not to mention that he had good hair and played in a rock band and was probably laying pipe in college dorm rooms throughout the city...he coulda been iconic in the HUB in a few more years.

VA, Crunch, they're not as far away from Mass. as many would think. Seems there's an underground hotbed of klan activity right here in central CT. They already scare me.

I heard certain areas within the land of the blackstone had significant plumbing problems...now I think I understand the root cause.

Ahh, and so it starts. Was flipping through the channels and found some ass-clown writer being interviewed about the Pats-Colts game. He says the Pats will have a tough time dealing with Dwight Freeney, especially in the RCA Dome where he can really run. Dwight Freeney? Colts defense? I'm of the mind that their opponents have sucked offensively on the playoffs, more than they've done something spectacular on 'D'. Over a full season a team can make tremendous leaps on either side of the ball. Magical transformations, however, do not happen suddenly and sustainably. If the Pats play solid 'O' and don't give the ball away, they'll embarrass the Colts and Gay-ton Manning.

Sean, you have only yourself to blame for my out-burst...and your subsequent burst-out. I'm slowly learning from the best.

I've consistently held the opinion that the use of perf. enh. drugs goes way beyond guys hitting 50 HRs per year. My suspects, past and present, include Nomar, Petey, Trot, Tek, Pujols, Luis Gonzalez, Juan Gonzalez, Thome, Sexson, Glaus, Chipper, Berkman, Chavez, Abreu, Burks, Tejada, GArret Anderson, Tino, Bagwell, Buhner, Justice, Albert Belle, Burnitz, Teixera, Soriano, Ensberg, Griffey, Jr., fk it. I could go on all day. Until they find EVERY guy who EVER did the sh*t, including the fringe players who only ever got any decent MLB time because of their use, I don't agree with persecuting only the high profile guys. Bonds was great anyway, and despite being a total a-hole, why should he get hammered more than the guys who get 300 HRs in their careers with the juice when they'd have no career at all without it? The use of PEDs is so pervasive and probably extends back way further than the look-back period baseball seems to want to use. Did Mike Schmidt use something? Reggie Jackson? George Bell, Jack Clark, Andre Dawson? Christ, Phil Plantier hit 34 HRs for San Diego in 1993...what about him? Frankly I don't care who used what, and who continues to destroy their body for relatively short-term gains.

so true crunch. I am thoroughly convinced that instead of preparing for Sunday's game as he should, the Dung-man will be having his turd tickled by Peyton Manning, using the pole from Gordon Johncock's 1982 Indianapolis 500 checkered flag. fkn femmes.

or maybe it was a fluke. Sean, I'm fine, thanks for asking (10 days ago!) Hey, I was on youtube looking for Bruins fights and I came across the Stan Jonathan vs. Bouchard fight where Jonathan bloodied the big guy. Damn I miss that stuff. The link is below:

This is as much a Tony Dungy issue as it is Manning. Mannic needs to be unreal to beat the Pats, IMO, because as a TEAM the Colts are not nearly as strong, top to bottom, as the Pats. Chargers lost for the same reason...when the chips were down they didn't have the playmakers or the coaching to win. In fact, stealing a line from the Barenaked Ladies "Wind It Up" I could see Tony telling Marty: "I was a baby when I learned to suck But you have raised it to an art form"

Probably an underlying reason why I liked him.

I think it was "Bend Over Like Beckham"

I prefer to focus less on Peyton himself than to look at the entire Colts team, from the head coach down. Manning isn't playing for a team nearly as good as the Patriots. The entire COlts team will shi*t themselves next weekend. I don't even expect that close of a game.

silly question...he does what they all do. stars in gay porn.