Colts fans lose touch with reality
Following the NFL, I personally am a Jacksonville Jaguars fan. I make it a practice to read the paper of the home city of the team the Jags are playing. My father spends endless hours on sports message boards and I usually have no use for them. But I went to reading the one on the Indianapolis Star and was amazed by the utter contempt that one teams fans have for Jacksonville. I’ve always known that the Jaguars are considered the bastard stepchild of the NFL but it’s a truism in sports that you never look ahead to the next game. All Colts fans can be bother with is the upcoming game with the Patriots. It’s as if they think a Monday Night Football game on the road against a 4-1 team that throttled them 44-17 in their last meeting was nothing more than a pre-season game against an NFL Europe squad.
The Colts may very well win the game, but the experience has left me with the idea that Colts fans are delusional. I’m a Gator fan myself so I understand delusional fans. The Jaguars ran for 375 yards against the Colts defense last December and the only response from Colts fans is that they have too much pride to have that happen again. That’s a fucking fantastic game plan. I guess they had no pride last December. Jacksonville will not run for that much again Monday night, but the fact remains that the Jaguars always play the Colts tough and just because you are coming to the ville does not mean you’ll be playing Beuthune Cookman College. They’re not going to face a WAC defense either. For that reason I am predicting Jacksonville will win, at least I hope, because I live in reality, not Indianapolis.
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What fan of an NFL team isn’t delusional occasionally? I was once a Colts fan but lost all delusions about them on March 29, 1984 when they moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis. The pictures of the Mayflower Van Lines trucks moving the Colts’ offices from Baltimore to Indianapolis that appeared in the newspapers serves as an epitaph to many a Baltimore Colts fan.
There is one final Colts memory I share with all the Colts fans who attended opening day of the Orioles at Memorial Stadium in 1984. President Ronald Reagan threw the cerimonial first pitch and then the managers exchanged lineups. Everyone was waiting for the players to take the field when the announcer said, “Ladies and gentlemen, if you will please direct our attention to the center field gate and help me in welcoming our special guest today, MISTER ROBERT IRSAY.”
A dead hush fell over the stadium as every eye was turned to the playing field waiting for the gate to open. The gate did not open and then the announcer said, “Well it looks like he ran out on us too.”