Justin

Sports, music and video games. Fantasy football addict. #colts and #iubb fanatic. Old soul.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

The Inside The NBA crew reacts to Ernie Johnson announcing this will be his last season on the show ❤️

[Indianapolis Colts @Colts]

Thank you for everything @DeForestBuckner 💙

[Indianapolis Colts @Colts]

Thank you @BigQ56 💙

[Justin @jdm3318]

This song will forever remind me of traveling with my folks on road trips growing up.
RIP #johnanderson

John Anderson Seminole Wind https://t.co/NrslVJTDd8 via @YouTube

[Luke Schultheis @LuckAtLuke]

If Colts QB Daniel Jones would fetch a first round pick, Blue would be driving him in an Indy Car to the airport.

[Big Cat @BarstoolBigCat]

They actually did the right thing. Congrats Colts fans. It’s crazy how utterly mediocre the past 10 years have been under Ballard. You deserve something fresh

[Mike Chappell @mchappell51]

Deforest Buckner kept some thoughts to himself, but the Colts best defensive player isn’t happy.
“Yeah, I’m pissed off, too. I’m sick and tired of the same song and dance every . . . every year.”
The booing?
“Yeah, they’re upset. We lost to the Tennessee Titans, who were 0-5. And now they’re 1-5.’’

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

No. 1 overall pick Fernando Mendoza checks in for the first time in his career.

(📺 CBS)

[Justin @jdm3318]

Hey @daverichard is that Jake the Snake Roberts behind you? #askfft

[FanDuel @FanDuel]

23 years ago today (2003) 🗓️

Peyton Manning led the Colts on one of the GREATEST COMEBACKS IN NFL HISTORY.

Down 35-14 with 5:09 to go, Indianapolis STORMED BACK against the Bucs AND WON 🤯

via @NFLLegacy | #ForTheShoe

[crimson quarry @crimsonquarry]

thank you

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

John Madden was EA's third choice for the game that sold 130 million copies. Joe Montana said no. Joe Kapp wanted royalties. So EA's founder boarded an Amtrak train, because Madden refused to fly, and spent three days pitching a retired coach on a computer game.

Madden said yes for one reason. He thought it could teach people football.

Then EA told him the computers of 1984 could only fit seven players a side on screen. Madden told them that wasn't football. Real 11-on-11 or no deal, even if it took years. It did. John Madden Football didn't ship until 1988.

The refusal turned out to be the whole franchise. Realism was the moat. By 1993 the NFL licensed it, and to this day it's the only licensed NFL video game series in existence.

Here's the part that stings. Trip Hawkins offered Madden as much EA stock as he wanted at $7.50 a share. Madden waved him off. "I gave you my time. I'm not giving you my money." Ten years later the stock hit $70. He called it the dumbest thing he ever did.

Didn't matter. In 2005 EA paid him $150 million for his name in perpetuity, plus annual royalties. The name outlasted the share price.

And the ending nobody remembers. A knee injury ended Madden's playing career before he took a single NFL snap. The man who never played a down put his name on the game 130 million people bought so they could.

[Derek Schultz @Schultz975]

Was thinking about this the other day. If you flip all five of those results (which I know you can't do, but just play along), the Colts are coming off three-straight playoff berths.

Their issues obviously go deeper than that, but losing five straight coin-flip games to the Texans alone essentially ruined three seasons.

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

Indiana has not committed more turnovers than an opponent in any of its last 27 games.

That is tied for the longest such streak by any FBS team over the last 30 seasons (Air Force 2007-2009).

[Justin @jdm3318]

@heathcummingssr @AdamAizer

[OptaSTATS @OptaSTATS]

The Chargers are the second team in NFL history to lose back-to-back games by double digits with both coming at home against teams that had a sub-.200 win pct the previous season.

The other was the 1926 Racine Tornadoes (Oct. 10-17), who played just one more game before folding.

[Theo Gremminger @TheOGfantasy]

Tyler Shough at QB6 overall on the Week headed into Sunday Night Football …

Another QB1 weekly finish incoming

[Ari Meirov @MySportsUpdate]

#Chiefs undrafted rookie LT Kahlil Benson on Monday night:

• 32 pass-blocking snaps
• 1 pressure allowed (3.2% rate).
• Excellent in the run game

His story is unreal: Benson won a National Championship at Indiana last season but went undrafted and unsigned. He attended Chiefs camp as a tryout player alongside 75+ players, earned a contract, made the 53-man roster, started Week 1—and balled out against Denver’s vaunted defense.

Per @NextGenStats, Benson allowed the fewest pressures among all rookie OTs in Week 1, which includes 3 first-round picks.

[BaseballHistoryNut @nut_history]

Most no-hitters - Nolan Ryan(7)
Most one-hitters - Nolan Ryan(12)
Most two-hitters - Nolan Ryan(18)
Most three-hitters - Nolan Ryan(31)

[Rich Cimini @RichCimini]

While the NFL mulled whether to play after the attacks, the #Jets and #Giants players were steadfast that the league needed to pause. Behind-the-scenes accounts from Testaverde, Herm Edwards and Mawae, who said the Jets were prepared to forfeit. https://t.co/xTrVzazhxC

[Sterling Snow @sterlingmsnow]

I reread this every year.

I cry like a baby every year.

Todd Beamer died a father, husband, and hero.

Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.

Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?

Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.

Lisa: Your name?Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.

Lisa: Are you okay?

Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.

Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?

Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.

Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.

Lisa: I promise.

Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.

Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)

Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.

Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.

Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.

Lisa: What are you going to do?

Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.

Todd: Would you pray with me?They pray the Lord’s Prayer. Then: Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Todd: God help me. Jesus help me.Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.