Rear up you Colts and let's fight.  Crash through and show them your might!  - Jo Lombardi & Benjamin Klasmer

Public Service Announcement:  Ok, here we go!  Whats crack-a-lacking sports fans?  It's gut check time.  Make or break or time.  Do or die time.  Win or go home!  We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me.  And, we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light.  We can climb outta hell...one inch at a time.  Hoorah!

Like it or not, that's what Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts have to do.  They have to climb outta hell...one inch at a time.  It all starts tonight.  It all starts in the Music City.  It all starts against the Tennessee Titans.  The undefeated Tennessee Titans.  Is it Monday yet?

You may say it's early.  You may say there's plenty of football left to be played.  You may say I'm a dreamer.  But I'm not the only one.  Know this sports fans.  Know that when the Colts lost last week, they fell to three games back in the division.  Fell to three games back in the division for the first time in the seven years there's been a division.  Losing again, tonight, to this Titans team, could very well mean the end of the line.  No team in the history of the NFL has ever come back to win a division title after being down four games at any point during the season.  No team.  Not ever.

It will not be easy.  Not a task for the faint of heart.  Like my main man Ronald Reagan always says, "The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted; it belongs to the brave."  It will take bravery to face this Titans defense.  You've heard of the Steel Curtain?  This is the Titanium Curtain.  It's the new style.  Four and three and two and one, when I'm on the mic, the suckers run.   Suckers have been running all season.  Running from Albert Haynesworth.  Running from Keith Bulluck.  Running from Courtland Finnegan.  Running, but not getting very far.  The Titanium Curtain has not allowed more than seventeen points in any game this season.  Big deal you say?  Who cares you say?  I say nobody has started a season at 6-0 while holding their opponant to seventeen points or fewer since 1981.  Since the Philadelphia Eagles.  Since Charlie Johnson.  Since Jerry Robinson.  Since Roynell Young.  Since guys like that there.  I say the Colts have their work cut out for them.

Peyton Manning is playing behind a makeshift line on a makeshift knee and he is struggling like he has never struggled before.  He just hasn't had the time or the mobility to connect on those deeper routes that have been so successful in the past.  For the Colts to have any shot, any shot at all, the offensive line must protect the six foot five, 230-pound quarterback with the laser rocket arm.  Jaws:  "If a defense gives Manning time to throw, he's going to win.  It doesn't matter how good the defense is."  Manning has been an MVP, a Pro Bowl MVP and a Super Bowl MVP.  Tonight, he has to play like one again.  His season depends on it.

Public Acknowledgements:  Any Given Sunday, John Lennon, Beastie Boys and USA Today

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Peace out homies.  Six Two and Even!