Here’s a really good article by Dan Wetzel in Yahoo! Sports.
His argument or pleading more accurately is for Tony Dungy and the Colts to make the run for perfection. With the opportunity to clinch home field advantage throughout the playoffs, there’s been speculation that Tony Dungy will sit his starters and rest them for the playoffs and reduce the risk of injury in a game that largely doesn’t matter.
I agree with Dungy and the rest of the team for that matter, the goal is the Lombardi trophy and Super Bowl rings. But it sure would be nice to have a perfect 19-0 season and personally to remember it first hand.
Dan Wetzel argues the point for another reason though. He wants the 1972 Dolphins to get knocked off their high-horse because of their attitudes towards teams who have challenged the record in the past and to the Colts who are challenging it now. I’m sure anyone that watches ESPN’s SportsCenter has heard the quote, “don’t call me when they’re in my town, call me when their in my neighborhood” or something like that.
In Dan’s own words:
I understand they want to own the only perfect season. But at this stage of the game, classy record holders are supposed to recognize others’ greatness and at least outwardly applaud being joined in the pantheon.
Even Roger Maris’s family cheered Mark McGwire and his Andro bottle.
The Dolphins, though, root against, denigrate and pound their own chests. It makes you cringe. You wish they were better than this.
They aren’t. Which is why the Colts need to go 19-0. Manning, Edgerrin James, Marvin Harrison and Dwight Freeney need to play. We know it isn’t the smart thing to do, but we need to be saved from those old Dolphins.
And those great Dolphins need to be saved from themselves.
Let’s see how it goes. 4 games left and 3 should be battles, nothing my team can’t overcome, but battles still.
Read the entire article, Open-and-Shut case by Dan Wetzel in Yahoo! Sports