You Know It’s Patriots-Colts When, Volume I
January 21st, 2007
1. Bill Belichick is looking sloppy and wearing a cut-off hoodie. (Wait, that doesn’t mean he’s playing the Colts, that just means the Patriots are playing.)
2. Peyton Manning is frustrated on the bench, licking his fingers and scrolling through those still-pictures he’s always liked gawking at angrily. He’s launching long-balls towards his pro-bowl receivers, and New England’s defensive backs are making terrific plays to break-up potential completions.
3. A fumble that the Colts should have recovered without incident somehow squirts out of a pile of bodies, and rolls right to a New England offensive lineman standing in the endzone, away from the play. The lineman, Logan Mankins, pounced on the ball for a score - the kind of luck that allows a team to win three Super Bowl Championships in five-years.