36 posts tagged “colts”

They had a big shindig last night at "The Luke?"  aka Lucas Oil Stadium.

It is about 1 hour
until the kickoff of the Colts pre-season - well actually the NFL pre-season to be specific.  The Hall Of Fame game starts the Sunday Night NFL games on NBC.  Yeah, these games are meaningless but they are a good warm up and excitement builder for me.  I thought the NFL reserved tongiht's game, The Hall Of Fame Game for good teams - so I'm surprised to see the Skins scheduled for this game.  ---  Oh, I think that was trash talk? Yes.

My "no TV" experiment
may be seeing it's last days.  I'm not extreme enough to go without a TV during football season.  I might have to go and panhandle my way to a new one.  It is wierd telling people that you don't have a TV - they just look at you funny.  I might as well just say that I don't have a refridgerator - the response would be the same.

For the last 10 days
I have been on vacation and I had Circle Face for 8 days of it.  She started missing her mom badly at about day 7.  We were supposed to go to Tenn. and visit my mom but the car took a crap and I had to pull funds away from vacation to get the car back in shape.  I do have solo vacations in Colorado in Oct and Organce County CA next spring which thankfully I pre-paid everything except hotel on those.  I plan to use points for lodging on both trips.

PS: 208 days - a couple of you will know what that means.  It feels very damn good too.

Crap.
Where did this come from?  Manning Out 6 Weeks After Knee Surgery.  Yet another ominous sign for the 2008/9 season.  As if we needed another one.

Haters up north ... enjoy your gloating ... for the moment.

Flood waters
damaged the data center and telecommunications center Tuesday night at the Colts new home, Lucas Oil Stadium.

Stadium Flooding Won't Stop the Clock, Official Says
Stadium Flooding is being minimized, Joey says

Of course they
are downplaying it. I was told that better than 40% of the servers and all of the telephone system have to be replaced.  They can get servers re-delivered in less than a week but I wonder if they had backups since they weren't in production yet ...  hmmmm.  Phone systems don't just get gutted and replaced in a "few weeks" as the article says.

First pre-season Colts game: Aug 24th with the Buffalo Bills.
First regulation Colts game: Sep 7 with the Chicago Bears (Sunday Night)

PS: Nose bleads for the Bears game are now $252/each.

The NFL decides
the host city for Super Bowl 46 today.  Last year we were out bid out bought narrowly defeated by Dallas/North Texas for the 2011 game.  The pundits claim that we have the better shot if the superiority of last year's presentation is any indication.

IF
we get the game then it will be hosted at Lucas Oil Stadium which opens in less than 4 months.  The first game there will be the opening game of the season for the Colts and the Bears.

Marvin ...

;)

It doesn't hurt
as bad I thought it would, thankfully.  The Pats were the better team - today.  Good on them.

I think the take aways
from today's game are are that the Pats are overrated but still damn good.  The Colts D performed very well against the best offense in the league.  The Pats' patty cake schedule came to an abrupt halt today and it doesn't look good for them.  The Colts need to get healthy.  I'm hoping to see these guys again in January.

Anyway, I think
both teams will lose 3 more games.

Wowzer!
Colts vs. Patriots tickets going for $5,000-plus.  Ticket scalping is legal in Indiana.  It's too bad we can't ship the Pats to the NFC so that they can actually have some competition against the AFC.