Manning Face

Cornelius Wellington III    Indianapolis Colts, NFL, NY GIANTS     Manning Brothers, Manning Face, Peyton Manning Super Bowl XLIV

Someone please explain to me why the Manning boys always make the “Manning Face”?

It’s somewhere between disappointed, smug, and retard.

Don’t worry, Phillip Rivers has retard down to a science.

Peyton Not The Best Ever.

Michalis Hatzigiannis    Indianapolis Colts, NFL, New Orleans Saints     legacy, loser, not the best, Peyton Manning, Super Bowl XLIV

Let’s start this by saying that this is way too nerdy of an argument, but fine if we are going to take the man’s legacy over the one interception that he threw, then let’s do it.
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Exclusive Super Bowl Interview with Colts’ Curtis Painter

Cornelius Wellington III    Featured, Indianapolis Colts, NFL, New Orleans Saints     Curtis Painter Interview, Dwight Freeney Injury Update, Super Bowl XLIV

This week’s Super Bowl hoopla can be dizzying for NFL rookies. Especially rookie Quarterbacks who may be looked to lead their new team on the biggest stage of them all.

We caught up with the Indianapolis Colts’ rookie QB, Curtis Painter this week to find out how he’s handling the media frenzy and intense pressure he’ll face on the bench this Sunday in Miami.

FTR: ” Curtis, how does it feel to be playing in your first Super Bowl in only your first year in the league?”

CP: ” I won’t be playing. Coach told me to stay as far away from the field as possible this Sunday, or he’ll trade me to the Browns.”

FTR: ” Haha, no seriously. What has been going through your mind as you prepare to take on the Saints? How do you gameplan around someone like Darren Sharper?”

CP: ” Honestly I don’t know. I’m not allowed to even go into meetings this week, because Coach is afraid that the Saints will pick up on passing plays just by the look on my face if I know what the play is when I’m on the bench.”

FTR: ” Ok. Tell us about media day. Over 2,000 media members this year attended media day making it quite the spectacle. How did you handle the barrage of questioning?”

CP: ” I couldn’t get in. Security laughed when I told them I’m on the team. It was embarrassing actually.”

FTR: ” Wow. Sounds like you’re not even really getting the Super Bowl experience.”

CP: “It’s not all bad. Coach gave me a souvenir T-shirt and hat.”

FTR: ” Well that’s cool. So how bad is Dwight Freeney’s ankle? Is he still gonna be an impact on the Saints offense?”

CP: ” I’m not allowed to talk about Mr. Freeney.”

FTR: ” Oh, so the team is trying to keep that close to the vest huh?”

CP: ” No, it’s just that, well, Mr. Freeney told me after my performance against the Jets in week 16, I’m about one step away from being put in traction for the rest of my life. So, I’d rather not talk about Mr. Freeney. He is a great man.”

FTR: ” You’re kind of a tool huh?”

CP: ” I hate my life.”

NFL Divisional Playoff Recap

Cornelius Wellington III    Arizona Cardinals, Baltimore Ravens, Dallas Cowboys, Featured, Indianapolis Colts, Minnesota Vikings, NFL, NY Jets, New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers     NFL Playoffs

Well, the title games are in place after a great weekend of football. 3 of the most elite quarterbacks in the NFL are joined by rookie playcaller, Mark Sanchez and the upstart Jets. Here’s what went down.

New Orleans Saints – 45   |   Arizona Cardinals – 14

Sean Payton and the New Orleans Saints put the hurt on Kurt Warner and the Arizona Cardinals in a game that was only close for about 10 minutes. The Cardinals’ Tim Hightower shocked the South when he bolted for a 70-yard TD score on the first play from scrimmage, but Reggie Bush put that show on the back burner with some highlights of his own coupled with Drew Brees’s masterful dismantling of the Cardinals porous defense.

In the 2nd quarter Kurt Warner took a hit that may finally push him into retirement, likely to be a sure-fire Hall of Famer.  I can’t imagine he’d want to come back after being hit like this.

Indianapolis Colts – 20   |   Baltimore Ravens – 3

Haters beware, the Colts and their well-rested starters are headed to the AFC Title game with a full head of steam and a point to prove. Peyton Manning showed young Joe Flacco the difference between a promising future and a legendary career. Manning went completed 30 of 44 pass attempts, and rarely handed the ball off as the Colts D completely dominated the Ravens young and talented offense.

Under intense scrutiny for giving up on a perfect season, the Colts look poised for redemption as they go into the AFC Title game to face the team that handed them their first “loss” of the season.

Rumor is Curtis Painter will not even be on the sideline for this game, because as we’ve all seen, even if Rex Ryan were to sit on Peyton Manning’s head and kill him, the Colts would rather have a dead Peyton Manning taking the snaps than Painter.

Minnesota Vikings – 34   |   Dallas Cowboys – 3

This was the scene for much of the day in Minnesota as the Vikings swarmed Tony Romo all day long. The Vikings D sacked Romo 6 times, never letting the young QB ever get a grip on the game, while veteran old-timer Brett Favre played like a superstar throwing for 4 TDs within only 15 completions. One TD was late in the 4th quarter when the Vikings were already up by 24 points which pissed off some of the Cowboys defenders, who showed more aggression  yelling at Favre than they did all game trying to stop him.

New York Jets – 17   |   San Diego Chargers – 14

The San Diego Chargers are a veteran led 12-4 division champion football team. Unfortunately for them, they are veterans who are accustomed to losing big games in the playoffs to lower seeded teams, and they are the champions of the AFC West division, arguably one of the weakest divisions in the league.

Mark Sanchez never played like a star, but also never played like a bum, which is what San Diego’s placekicker Nate Kaeding did. Kaeding, the best regular season kicker in the NFL, is probably the worst playoff kicker of all time. He has managed to blow no less than 3 playoff wins for the Jets dating back to 2005, when he blew another game against the Jets, and 2007 when he blew a kick to beat the eventual Super Bowl Champion Patriots.

Norv Turner will never win a Super Bowl as a Head Coach, but this one is not his fault.

FTRsports Week 17 NFL Power Rankings

Cornelius Wellington III    Arizona Cardinals, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears, Cincinnati Bengals, Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, Minnesota Vikings, NFL, NY GIANTS, NY Jets, New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, Oakland Raiders, Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Diego Chargers, San Francisco 49ers, St Louis Rams, Tennesee Titans, Washington Redskins     nfl news, Week 17 NFL Power Rankings

Week 16 may have the worst gambling opportunities for football fans in the history of gambling. The bottom-feeding Bucs beat the Saints, the Colts pooped on their fanbase by laying down and dying against the Jets instead of trying to go undefeated, and Brett Favre proved that cold air really does affect people with arthritis. Let’s see if any of this affects this weeks rankings:

1. No one deserves to be #1 this week. The Colts proved their as masculine as Lifetime airing the Tony awards, and the Saints are making me question whether that’s a birthmark on Drew Brees’s face, or the beginning stages of AIDS. The Vikings can’t leap either team considering their QB played like Rex Grossman for one half and Dan Marino another half. I award you all no points, and may God have mercy on your souls.

2. Indianapolis Colts- I hate having to rank this team at all in a league made up completely of men, because this tank job should come with a penalty and a congressional hearing. Colts fans should have burned down the stadium after their team threw away perfection like it was a Christmas card with no money in it. I hope Peyton Manning gets hurt on the first snap of the playoffs, and Jim Caldwell gets hate mail for the rest of his life.

3. San Diego Chargers- The Chargers haven’t lost since mid-October, and don’t plan on them losing to the Redskins even with the reserves in this week. Jumping the Saints was unthinkable a couple weeks ago, but this team is legit going into the playoffs firing on all cylinders. I still don’t recommend betting on any games the final week of the season if teams that are locked into the playoffs are playing in them though.

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Jim Caldwell is a Crappy Role Model

Cornelius Wellington III    Indianapolis Colts, NFL     Colts Suck, Indianapolis Colts, Jim Caldwell, losers, nfl news, Peyton Manning is a Loser

As Jim Caldwell and the Colts laid down and died on national television today, I realized that the sissification of America is finally complete. Other sports blogs will argue whether or not Caldwell’s decision is right or wrong. Passing judgement on a rookie head coach who was handed the keys to a Rolls Royce of a football team with the only goal being not to crash it.

I will not discuss his decision. I will not discuss whether it was right or wrong, but I will say that, as an American, I am disgusted with any professional team that would quit on their fans in the run for glory. Why bother rooting for the Colts if they’re only doing enough to get by? What does this teach the children watching the game? Only do enough to get by? Once your goal is within reach you can relax and not work as hard? Don’t give it your all or you may get hurt? The Jets are a good football team?

That’s all crap.

Long before the days of face guards for Little League hitters, Title 9, and coach-pitch baseball (whatever the heck that is) sports was for the strong and determined. Today everyone plays, and everyone gets trophies.

Where I’m from, losers don’t get trophies, and the Colts are losers.

I hope Jim Caldwell and the Indianapolis Colts lose their first game of the playoffs by 40 points. Not as a Patriots fan, but as an American.