(September 14, 2020 at 11:31 am)arewethereyet Wrote: Peyton Manning and the Colts were my guy/team. I tried, briefly, to get interested in the Broncos when Peyton returned to football after his neck surgery. I didn't last through the agonizing end to that debacle. Peyton should have walked out when he was up and had the perfect reason to hang up his helmet and cleats.
I also briefly tried to follow the Colts but that didn't take either. Actually the end of the Peyton Manning era was pretty much the end of football watching for me. There was a lot of team switching all across both leagues and guys retiring and I just didn't find the chemistry I enjoyed anywhere.
Husband is a Steelers fan but Big Ben is too iffy for me to care about though I did watch now and then just to see Troy Polamalu come flying in from who knows where to make awesome plays. That's a guy who knew when it was time to walk away.
With the Brady/Belichick thing done and over I only have one team to hate...the Cowboys...but that's mostly because of Jerry Jones.
Wife 2 minus 1 was from Denver, so that was my team for 25 years and still is when my son comes over to watch a game. I was happy to see Manning get another ring, Cam Newton take a beating, and my boy watch a Super Bowl victory he'll remember. He was 4 when Elway won and walked away.
I discussed the Cowboys with a Texan at a ski lodge in Taos in March '92. He was so Texan, he wore a shirt that buttons across the top. In Arkansas, if you dress like a cowboy, but aren't, you are a goat roper. Anyway, this guy told me that when Jones, which he termed "Your guy," bought the Cowboys, he pledged to not root for them for 5 years. Next season, the Cowboys won the Super Bowl. That's the only thing I like about Jones. He made a bunch of drugstore cowboys spite themselves. Jerry's an old knucklehead. He interfered with the Razorback program and is partly to blame for our ongoing disaster.
There are so many emerging talents, I also am struggling to find a new team to hate.
