Your Indianapolis Colts
Thank you. Thank you. I think many people owe me an apology for attacking me for not picking the Colts. There are three rules that every NFL fan should live by:
1. Never let your money ride on Peyton in the postseason.
2. Never let your money ride on Tony Dungy in the postseason.
3. Never, under any circumstances, rest all of your starters at the end of the season. Sure, they can sit some in the final game. But DO NOT sit them completely. Mike Shanahan learned that lesson two years ago. Apparently every NFL reporter, columnist, and half the coaches haven’t figured this out. Peyton and Marvin Harrison played a total of like 5 possessions in their last three regular season games. And then everyone wonders why they weren’t clicking against a hard-ass, tough-nosed Pittsburgh Steelers team. Foolish.
I also want to apologize to my boy Jerheme Urban and his teammates in Seattle. I didn’t even pick them to make the playoffs. Then again, how was I to know that three brand new starting linebackers, two of which were rookies, would completely turn around the ‘Hawks defense.
While, I’m here: A few people that MUST be All-Stars this year in the NBA.
Chris Bosh - I don’t care how bad their team is, Bosh is turning into one of the great power forwards in the game, especially in the guard-heavy Eastern Conference.
Paul Pierce - quite possibly his best season, statistically.
Tony Parker - You all already know how I feel, but just to back it up, T.P. leads the league in points in the paint. Flat out awesome.
Chris Bosh - Best rookie, and possibly the reincarnation of Isiah Thomas.
Pau Gasol - Replacing Yao and Camby.
Mehmet Okur - Best center in the West, since Camby is hurt.
One additional thing to add to the list of things that te Indy fans should be concerned about.
* This was the Colts best shot, This was THEIR year. They had home field advantage (which they earned by playing a soft schedule) and the Superbowl was being played in a domed stadium. –AND– The team that had terrorized them for the last 3 years had been knocked out of the playoffs. Things couldn’t have been laid out nicer for them if they had written the script theirselves. Unfortunately for them, They’ll never recover from this.
Unrelated comment … a request
I’m looking for fans of Scott Turow’s “Presumed Innocent” for a BBC radio programme. We’re interviewing the author about this book later in the week, and we take interview questions by email from booklovers around the world. A google search just brought me to your review of one of his other novels in this site.
If you’ve got a question - please get in touch: gary dot stevens @ bbc dot co dot uk.
Thanks. gary
The interview with Scott Turow is in a BBC World Service series called: “World Book Club”.
You can find information about the programme on our website:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/world_book_club.shtml