So, what are the Internet-based Colts fans saying about this week's game?

We start our tour at Stampede Blue. (Side note: This is, hands down, the best Colts blog out there. Of course that is sort of like being the best Filipino tranny porn website, but still, it's always good to be number 1.) Man, they are really letting us have it over there. Just look at this post, wherein our old pal Big Blue Shoe...actually talks about how good we are looking and how we are going to win 10 games. Hmm. Nevermind. Moving on.

Over at Colts Couch Crew, there was nary a mention of the game, as it seems Russell Puntenney (which sounds dirty, but isn't) is far more concerned with the cheating nature of Bill Belichick and the Patriots. He also offers up an asinine theory about how CameraGate will make the Colts look better in retrospect, as if all the choke jobs preceding last year's success were the result of subterfuge and trickery. Whatever.

Cranky Colts--what's with all the alliteration?--was at least talking about the game, but only with regard to us being without Andre Johnson and the author's hope that Freddie Keaiho will play.

In the end, I was only able to find one post with any sort of smack talk, and it was this one from ColtFreaks.com (predicted score: Colts 34, Texans 10).

I do look for Ahman Green to have nice day but nothing outrageous like Dayne did last year. Without Andre Johnson, the Texans have no major threats. Yes Houston you do have a problem and I see this one getting away from you fast. The Colts will be a little hungry for revenge and the Texans do not have the personnel to get the job done. Yes you have a few emerging players on D, a good young QB, decent RB, but not enough weapons to get it done.

That's about it. Only one score prediction. Only one poorly-punctuated attempt at trash talking analysis. What gives? The only thing I can figure is that--much like the media and the rest of the non-Texans fans out there--Colts fans can't quite figure out how good this Houston team is, so they are avoiding making much out of the game. If they win, they can chalk the pre-game radio silence up to "we weren't worried about the Texans because we are the world champs;" if they lose, the lack of smack before kickoff lends itself nicely to "we knew these Texans were for real...good job."

Either that, or they really are more concerned with Belichick than with this game. Which would be funny in a revisionist, "our one ring is better than their three" sort of way. Surely that's not it...

Labels: Andre Johnson, Batman, Bloggerating, Colts Shmolts

Posted by matt on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 9:08 AM | Permalink