If I was a fan of a team who had the chance of a perfect season and they just dismissed it with little thought of how its fans feel about it I'd be pissed. If they had never won a superbowl, I could see doing that. Superbowls are won every year by someone. Perfect seasons arent. Im not even a Colts fan and Im pissed. To me it just shows a lack of emotion, that to me makes the game what it is. Now what if they get knocked out in the 1st round?
Exactly what I was thinking too, I'd be really pissed at the team if I was a Colts fan.
Also those players are all competitors, especially Manning, I'm sure their not happy about the coach making them sit out almost half the game. I could see it being fine with them if they had been winning the game by a large margin, but they were only up by 5 when the coach started benching starters. I thought for sure as soon as the Jets took the lead that you would see Manning back in the game, but no, I can only imagine how upset Manning was sitting on the sidelines watching his chance at history slipping away.
Like Filth said, they've won Superbowls, and someone wins every year, in football the playoffs & Superbowl are single elimination games, every team can win on any given Sunday, but to have a winning streak like they were having, and a chance at going undefeated, and then to just throw it away, it was a chance at something that doesn't happen very often.
One other thing, if they were worried about players getting hurt, and willing to take a loss to prevent it, why didn't they just have Manning and the other starters they took out not play at all today?
