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[Brylok]

Originally Posted by Brylok

Evan these Patriots have rebuilt. They've replaced the best NFL head coach of all time. The best NFL QB of all time. Taken years off and are now winning playoff games
I'll always love the Colts. They're my home team, but they're finished. I'll just watch because it's important to have an NFL team here locally. They aren't going to win anything though
And I love pro football. The Colts aren't going to win anything significant again though.

Same with the Pacers. They're never going to win a championship, but it's good that they're still in the city.

[Racehorse]

Originally Posted by Brylok

Same with the Pacers. They're never going to win a championship, but it's good that they're still in the city.

Why do you think the Pacers will never win anything? They took it to 7 games last year.

[Oldcolt]

Brylok, Never is a long time. I agree that we will probably never win anything with this current leadership group and it's depressing as hell. Others on this board disagree so lets hope you and I are full of shit (my wife would back up anyone here who believes that)

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Oldcolt

Brylok, "Never" is a long time.

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The White Sox went 88 years without winning a World Series ...... and then, they won the World Series.

Never is indeed a very long time.

o

[kitekrazy]

Originally Posted by Brylok

Evan these Patriots have rebuilt. They've replaced the best NFL head coach of all time. The best NFL QB of all time. Taken years off and are now winning playoff games
I'll always love the Colts. They're my home team, but they're finished. I'll just watch because it's important to have an NFL team here locally. They aren't going to win anything though
And I love pro football. The Colts aren't going to win anything significant again though.

That tells you the scouting is still there. That's the real foundation of every franchise.
Just think how bad this franchise could've been if they took Leaf and Williams over Manning and James.
You have to feel for those Cowboy fans who are over 60 when that organization had great scouting and doesn't even come close after the Aikman era.
We are in the dark ages of being a Colts fan. Some of us who followed the team back to the Baltimore days been through that.

There is a "new" owner that doesn't have the experience of hiring and firing yet. Firing is easy, hiring is not.

[ChaosTheory]

Originally Posted by Brylok

Evan these Patriots have rebuilt. They've replaced the best NFL head coach of all time. The best NFL QB of all time. Taken years off and are now winning playoff games
I'll always love the Colts. They're my home team, but they're finished. I'll just watch because it's important to have an NFL team here locally. They aren't going to win anything though
And I love pro football. The Colts aren't going to win anything significant again though.

We're also always comparing them to the field every year. You bring up the Patriots this year. But last year I was reading about how the Vikings were a model franchise we should be emulating. Same with the Commanders.

You're not reading that this year because nobody is writing it. This year it's the Patriots and Bears and Broncos who have the league figured out. We'll see who it is next year.

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And looking at the field vs your team, you see a SB winner every single year and it's not you. Something about that must make people think there's more than a 3% (1/32) of winning.

Because the Bills never won, the 49ers never won, the Jackson Ravens never won, the Burrow Bengals never won, Campbell Lions never won, LaFluer Packers never won.

It's been pointed out lately that the Colts have won a playoff game more recently than the Steelers. Point being... the Super Bowl is zero-sum. Keep some perspective.

[IndyNorm]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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The White Sox went 88 years without winning a World Series ...... and then, they won the World Series.

Never is indeed a very long time.

o

Even better the Cubs went 108 years, which I very much enjoy giving Cubs fans shit about by making the statement that if a professional sports team doesn't win a championship in a 100 year span that it should be dissolved .

[Oldcolt]

Originally Posted by ChaosTheory

We're also always comparing them to the field every year. You bring up the Patriots this year. But last year I was reading about how the Vikings were a model franchise we should be emulating. Same with the Commanders.

You're not reading that this year because nobody is writing it. This year it's the Patriots and Bears and Broncos who have the league figured out. We'll see who it is next year.

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And looking at the field vs your team, you see a SB winner every single year and it's not you. Something about that must make people think there's more than a 3% (1/32) of winning.

Because the Bills never won, the 49ers never won, the Jackson Ravens never won, the Burrow Bengals never won, Campbell Lions never won, LaFluer Packers never won.

It's been pointed out lately that the Colts have won a playoff game more recently than the Steelers. Point being... the Super Bowl is zero-sum. Keep some perspective.

To me it isn't about winning the Super Bowl once or even multiple times like Jim always wanted. I don't need a dynasty to be satisfied (would be nice though). Having a realistic chance to not just make the playoffs but, if you get hot, to make a run gives me personally something to be invested in. You take the chance and most of the time you lose. It's a bummer but fun anyway because it's just a game and there is always next year. I have not felt this way about our team since Luck was here. It is to damn long.

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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The White Sox went 88 years without winning a World Series ...... and then, they won the World Series.

Never is indeed a very long time.

o

Originally Posted by IndyNorm

Even better is the fact that the Cubs went 108 years without winning a World Series, which I very much enjoy giving Cubs fans shit about by making the statement that if a professional sports team doesn't win a championship in a 100-year span that it should be dissolved ) .

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I always use the White Sox as an example because of the fact that Cubs fans and Red Sox fans are a bunch of whiny, narcissistic, self-pitying crybabies.

The White Sox actually went longer without winning it all (88 years) than the Red Sox did (86 years), but all you ever heard about was the droughts of the Red Sox and the Cubs because of their constant, narcissistic whining ...... White Sox fans, in my rat's ass of an opinion, were not nearly as nauseating in dealing with their 88-year drought as were Red Sox fans and Cubs fans.

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