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Monday, January 17, 2005

Snow Bowl II: Pats pummel Colts in the Foxboro snow

Ah yes. Let's turn to the Indianapolis Star for a wonderful recap of last night's Patriots 20 - 3 dismantling of the supposedly unstoppable Indianapolis Colts. (I was at the game, as you might expect, as I attend most home games):

The snow began about an hour before kickoff. It came in swirling sheets like white mist, and most of the sellout crowd of 68,756 stood throughout the night, huddled against the damp chill. The temperature was 25 degrees at halftime, and falling. Steam rose over both teams' huddles.

It was a frosty night in Foxboro, a night for tough-guy football, and no one plays it better than the world champion New England Patriots. They outplayed, outhit and outscored the Indianapolis Colts 20-3 on Sunday in an AFC divisional playoff game.

The Patriots extended their domination of the Colts (13-5) to six games. They have won 14 of the team's past 16 meetings, including all nine in Foxboro since 1995.

The Colts couldn't make plays, couldn't sustain drives. After scoring 49 points in a wild-card playoff victory over Denver last week, they failed to score a touchdown for the first time since a 9-6 victory at Cleveland in their 2003 season opener.

Manning was 27-for-42 for 238 yards with one interception. He is 0-7 in Foxboro.

And in equally good news, the inept New York Jets blew yet another chance to get past the divisional round despite a hapless Pittsburgh team handing them their worst game of the season. How did the Jets respond to this gift? It's over-rated offense didn't score a single touchdown. So much for that "rivalry." Now it's on to Pittsburgh and then the Super Bowl. New England has proven itself to be the best team in the league: No matter what happens next week, 2004-5 was a banner season, no doubt about it.

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