your words we hear/but we cannot sympathize

So that's the way it ends. No team earned a victory over the Colts this season. We gave it to the Jets, and we're likely to give it to the Bills. It was pretty hard to watch... after seeing these guys do so much to win so many of the games this year. Then it just gets thrown away.

For what reason?

Bill Polian said that Peyton was excused from finishing the game because Jim Sorgi got hurt.

Whatever, Bill Polian.

He also said that most wins in a decade and most consecutive wins was more important than going undefeated. He said that's why we played balls out against Jacksonville... except he forgot to mention that we got those records after the Broncos game. There was NOTHING to play for in the Jacksonville game. But we did it anyway.

Why, Bill Polian?

Losing isn't the problem. Losing for the reason we lost is the problem.

Bill Polian being a complete jackass about it afterword compounded the problem.

But hey, let's be remembered for something nobody really cares about like consecutive regular season wins or most wins in a decade. Be honest: did you know, or even care, what team had the most wins in any particular decade and how many wins they had?

Something else to consider: going undefeated has been done before. Way back in '72. Before parity. We had a chance to not only excede the 17-0 mark set by those '72 Dolphins, but to do it in a time when it shouldn't be possible. But that's not important, is it Bill Polian? I mean, who needs actual Football Immortality when you can have those other marks that nobody cares to remember.