you can't say you didn't ask for it, Freative.

some of you may be wondering what i mean. let me tell you a story.

last week, on Freative's unnamed rock show... the aforementioned host of the 9 o'clock hour of The Pit played Bad Company's Bad Company in response to my playing the same song, but by Five Finger Death Punch, the week before... adding "it's a nice cover, but nothing can beat the original."

in typical KY fashion, i took it as a personal challenge.

you drew the line, sir. i'm stepping across it.

this week, on Iridium (the 10pm hour of The Pit), you'll be hearing somewhere around an hour's worth of covers. ALL of which are better than the original incarnations, save one... MAYBE two. but those songs are at least as good as.

Freative says "you can't beat the original."

i says "anything you can do, i can do better. i can do anything better than you."

it's just the good ol' boy in me/got my friends, got the recipe/for a helluva life

as announced earlier in the week, West 70 is joining the devil's circus, aka The Pit, on Saturday Nights. fun begins at 8pm eastern with West70... the perfect soundtrack to getting your buzz on, then Freative's hallucinogen-induced (read: 70s and 80s) romp through classic rock, and all the way through to whenever i can no longer put together a coherent sentence.

after successfully celebrating my birthday (read: got all kinds of drunk on someone else's dime), i reckon i've got a good playlist together for tonight.

tonight, you'll hear the likes of Nonpoint, Meshuggah, Lacuna Coil, Five Finger Death Punch, Nazareth, and a few others to go along with Mandatory Metallica and Cannibal Corpse.

also, rumor has it a new show will be joining Saturday nights. well... not a new show, but new to The Pit. more details as they emerge.

it might, rabbit. it might.

The Show With No Name (more info on that later) will be coming on Saturday at 9pm eastern, an hour before Iridium. hosted by the Dark Overlord from the Howard The Duck movie.

before that, at 8pm eastern (if a couple technicalities can be worked out), Southern Fried Abomination will return to the airwaves.

get your big girl britches on, bitches.

"you ain't gonna swing with my daughter no mo' "

tomorrow night at 10pm eastern, 7 pacific... Iridium takes on a whole 'nother persona.

gonna kick off the holiday weekend correct.
tune in and turn the party on. you may not dig Cannibal Corpse and Pantera and Satyricon and the likes... but they ain't nobody... NOBODY what don't like what i've got goin' on tomorry night. tune in.

and remember... the chat is open during Iridium.
the topic is, as always, how drunk i am.

But enough about that.

In light of Peter Steele's death, I've decided to piece together the greatest band of all time, comprised entirely of dead guys. Peter Steele didn't make the cut because, let's face it, Cliff Burton is one of the great musicians of all time. Steele never had a chance, may he rest in piece.

"I'm a big fan of the effects of alcohol." -Peter Steele

Alright, bitches. It's Tournament time.

"But KY, this is an Indianapolis Colts website!"

Yeah, yeah. Anyway, with little going on in the NFL world right now we can turn our attention to other things until the Draft. So join the ColtsDigital NCAA Tournament group and get your bracket filled out. You could win a hat of your choice from the Colts Official Pro Shop.

Must be a member of ColtsDigital to qualify.

Tonight at 10 eastern, Iridium (hosted by yours truly) is doing a Pre-Super Bowl Spectacular Extravaganza Mega Happy #1 Special Show.

Then tomorrow starting at 4pm eastern, Freative and Gsmack will be hosting a live call-in request/tailgating show from Miami. The number to call for that is 888-429-2760.

ColtsDigital Chat will be open for both and all y'all are welcome to join.

showdown, shootout/spread fear within, without

Let's head on over to the Really-Real World for a minute. All I've heard all week is how Baltimore is the last team the Colts wanna face in the Divisional Round. The reason? Well, because the Ravens can run the ball and because the Ravens defense always gives P-Money problems.

Really?

Sure, they can run. But so can Miami, the Jaguars, the Titans, and the Rams.

What do all these teams have in common, other than losing to the Colts? That's all they can do.

But does the Ravens defense always trouble Peyton Manning?

The answer is simple enough. Hardly.

Over the last 7 years, the Ravens and Colts have played 7 times (including earlier this season). In these match-ups, the Colts are 7-0. The Peyton Manning lead offense, in those 7 games, has scored 173 points (roughly 25 per). As a matter of fact, the Colts have outscored the Ravens 173-81 over that span. The Ravens are only averaging about 12 points per game. That's a difference of 13 points, so we're more than doubling the average offensive output by the Ravens... but that's neither here nor there (at least, as far as this post is concerned. i'm focusing more on Peyton Manning vs the Ravens defense).

So let's get into it, shall we?

Over these 7 games, #18 has piled up 1776 total yards (averaging 254 per game), 12 touchdowns (almost 2 per), 5 interceptions (just over 0.7 per game) with a high of 299 passing yards vs a 170 low, 4 touchdown high vs 0 low, and 2 interception high vs 0 low (4 games with 0 INTs).

He's only had 1 bad game, the 2006 playoff game. He went 15 of 30 for 170 yards and 2 interceptions with 0 touchdowns. That's a bad game, by any standard, but we won.

Counter that with one most excellent game in the 2007 regular season where he went 13 of 17 for 249 yards and 4 touchdowns with 0 interceptions.

What're we left with?

5 still pretty good games.

Only one of those 5 games left did he throw for multiple interceptions. A game where Manning was 1 yard away from throwing for 300 and completed 71% of his passes.

So 3 games gone, leaving 4. Over those four games, he threw only 1 interception vs 7 touchdowns.

I'm not seeing anything that says to me that the Ravens defense troubles Peyton Manning regularly. Quite the contrary, actually, as Peyton has only played 1 bad game against the Ravens. A game we won anyway.

Where's the basis for this silly thought? Because there's certainly no proof of it.

You can't point to the 2006 playoff game, because that's CLEARLY the exception, not the rule.

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.