Bramble Tamble

"We're not going to beat them with field goals," I told Mrs. Tamble as the Colts' Adam Vinatieri knocked through another chip-shot to cut the New England lead to 7-6 in the first half.

And we didn't. Rats.

Sad how the Colts dominated the best team in football, the unstoppable New England juggernaut, for the better part of three quarters before petering out in the 4th. A 10-point lead with 9 minutes left in the game? How many times have we seen Manning and company chew up the clock in this situation?

Yet last night, with so much on the line (homefield advantage when these two teams surely meet again in the playoffs, continued dominance over their main nemesis, restaking their claim as the best in football after so much attention had been given to the Patriots through the first half of the season), the Colts withered. And now they'll probably have to make plans to go to that shithole New England in January.

Oh well. It was a great game, for sure - the outcome just wasn't the preferred one for this Colts fan.

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