For the moment, let’s just ignore the Colts’ defensive troubles and the years of having great teams that get stopped just short of going to the Super Bowl. Like Bob Kravitz, let’s just wallow a bit in how good the Colts’ offense was yesterday. Playing Denver, they went up against the stingiest defense in over 70 years and lit them up for 34 points, including 28 points in the second half. At times, it seemed like Denver kind of forgot Reggie Wayne was playing. Note to Broncos – next time you might want to cover him. Rookie running back, Joseph Addai looks like he’s going to be a solid replacement for Edgerrin James. Yesterday, he averaged 5.5 yards per carry and racked up 93 yards. And Manning was, well, Manning. 32/39 for 345 yards, 3 touchdowns, and zero interceptions.
Super Bowl or no, we’re really going to miss these guys when they’re gone.
Go Bears!!!
And on a related note… the dome that cost $77 million to build has $75 million still owing on it 22 years later as we tear it down. Anyone want to guess how long it will take to pay off $2 billion?
We’ll probably pay on it for 30 or 40 years; then lease it to a private company for 75 years, let them substantially raise ticket prices, and use the privatization funds to build more stadiums.
News today is that due to significant cost overruns, they are probably going to have to take money out of the “convention center” portion of the budget. Grief.