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Colts to be Tested
5/22/2007 1:51:45 PM
(Last Edited: 5/22/2007 1:51:45 PM)
Before you know it the NFL season will be here in full swing. The question that’s on my mind is can the Colts do it again? Are the Colts the new dynasty on the current era or was it just a 1-time fluke?
A lot of challenges are ahead of the Colts if their goal is to successfully defend their title. Their biggest obstacle will be themselves.
In the world of sports, very few can reach the top of the mountain without getting full of themselves; just ask the Miami Heat.
After winning the championship in 2006, they entered the next season thinking they were all that but in the end they only proved that they were full of themselves. But where not talking about the NBA here, where talking about the NFL and repeat champs have appeared before. In fact the Steelers did it twice for super bowls IX,X and then again for XIII and XIV.
ESPN had a recent article about the Colts and here is a snip of it:
“INDIANAPOLIS -- To officially begin a 2007 campaign in which his defending Super Bowl champions will be perched atop the hit list of every opponent on their schedule, Tony Dungy chose to symbolically close the books on the old one.
With the Indianapolis Colts gathered at the 50-yard line of their indoor practice facility on Friday morning, just before they took the field for the initial session of a weekend minicamp, a staffer unfurled the Super Bowl XLI banner that now hangs high on the wall at the east side of the facility. The first nine banners, commemorating, from left to right, the franchise's other postseason appearances since infamously relocating from Baltimore in 1984, all feature white lettering on blue backgrounds.
The 10th banner, though, is different in a lot of ways. And not just because the background is white, with the Super Bowl citation laid out in blue, block letters.
It represents, to be sure, the validation of one of the great stretches of the salary-cap era, with Indianapolis having won four straight division crowns and having qualified for the playoffs in every season of Dungy's remarkable five-year tenure with the franchise. Since the NFL implemented a salary cap in 1993, only four other franchises have won four straight division titles.
For a few seconds as the banner dropped, the players whooped and hollered, and then they did what Dungy always expects them to do.
They got back to the business of viewing football through the windshield of what might lie ahead and not through the rearview mirror of history.”
With that kind of attitude I believe they can do it. I can’t wait for the season to start because this season will determine if the Colts are true Champs or just another Buster Douglas.
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