Barf

If there were ever any questions about why Roger Goodell smartly wants to shorten the preseason, all it would take to dispel them would be to watch a tape of the latest eye bleeder from a team that everyone concedes is one of the best in football. Here’s my random thoughts for the night:

• We were going to do a sweet photo blog, but my buddy Nate forgot his camera. No problem, man. That’ll be $75 for the ticket.
• The ushers were WAAAY overzealous. I almost got into a shouting match both with an elderly black lady and a guy with a voice box (both ‘event staff’). It wasn’t my finest night. The old lady insisted on checking my ticket (in the upper bowl!) every time I got up. It was ridiculous. Voice box guy was the third usher to move my group of friends out of an ‘aisle’. The last time we were in a corner. I couldn’t figure out where to go. On the way home, I heard the announcers lauding The Luke for wide concourses where people can congregate and talk. Yeah right. They treated every conversation like an Al Queda planning meeting. Get a grip, Lucas Oil staff. Start treating your CUSTOMERS like people and not annoyances. I know you are just doing your jobs, but don’t let the power go to your head.
• The stands were shockingly empty.
• Dungy talked about keeping 4 QBs. There’s no way that happens. Gray is cut. 3-12 with a fumble is inexcusable. He showed no pocket presence or accuracy.
• Courtney Roby did his best to make the team, but injuries may make that impossible. If the Colts keep Saturday off IR, and keep Sorgi even if he’s hurt and not really available, I’m not sure that there will be room to keep a guy who ONLY returns kickoffs and would be a 6th WR. I hope he makes it, but keeping 3 QBs would be tough on him
• Jared Lorenzen is horrible, but he could well be a heartbeat away from the throne if Sorgi can’t go. Chris Simms? Dante Culpepper? Dare I say….Jeff George? There has to be a better solution than this.
• So long KK. I wish you could have caught that ball last January. I at least wanted you to play ok to showcase your skills to someone else. Dress warm up in Canada, ok pal?
• The biggest cheers of the night were for a replay of MJax picking of Brady to send us to the Super Bowl and for #18 waiving to the crowd on his way out at half time. He was active and throwing on the sidelines (he dressed for the game), and looked fine in pregame workouts. I’d say the Floria/Lombardi train is very close to having officially jumped the tracks.
  All in all, we can mercifully close this sordid chapter in Colts preseason history. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to clean my face. My eyes have been bleeding all night. Both from the football I was forced to watch and from my fingers desperately clawing at eyes so as to stop the pain of watching Quinn Gray “play football”.