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[soxfan121]

h/t to @MarkSchofield & @DaveFurst
 

 

[Stitch01]

That is not the first one of those hanging in Indy.   The rafters are littered with participant banners.

 

[bakahump]

I imagine its waving because of the Pumped in Crowd noise played during its unveiling.

 

[BannedbyNYYFans.com]

Dear Penthouse Forum,
 
The other day I almost had sex with a girl.  I'm telling you, I was soooooo close.  
 
Regards,
Colts 

 

[NortheasternPJ]

This is the same team that has Jim Harbaugh in their Ring of Honor. 4 seasons 20-26 record but he's in there because he got them to the AFC Championship in 1995. Pathetic. 
 
They also have "The 12th Man" in the ring of honor. I'm shocked they haven't elected "Pumped in Crowd Noise By Bose" and just topped it off with losers.

 

[PC Drunken Friar]

That is not the first one of those hanging in Indy.   The rafters are littered with participant banners.

I mean, I know it's not the same, but the Pats have a 16-0 banner up at Gillette. I'd rather they take that one down.

 

[Super Nomario]

This is the same team that has Jim Harbaugh in their Ring of Honor. 4 seasons 20-26 record but he's in there because he got them to the AFC Championship in 1995. Pathetic. 

Don't sell Harbaugh's contributions short: he also got Screech's whole class A's: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuKrcjskQiU
 
 

I mean, I know it's not the same, but the Pats have a 16-0 banner up at Gillette. I'd rather they take that one down.

I hope in the fullness of time we can recognize what an accomplishment that was regardless of how it ended.

 

[bougrj1]

I mean, I know it's not the same, but the Pats have a 16-0 banner up at Gillette. I'd rather they take that one down.

I think they did. At least it's not up where it was in previous seasons.

 

[Papelbon's Poutine]

I mean, I know it's not the same, but the Pats have a 16-0 banner up at Gillette. I'd rather they take that one down.

There are two AFC finalists every season. There's been one 16-0 team in the history of the game.

I'm fine with that banner hanging.

 

[SeoulSoxFan]

Rumor that the Jets will raise this banner on their home opener is not yet confirmed.
 

 

[NortheasternPJ]

I think they did. At least it's not up where it was in previous seasons.

 
It's still in the corner in the lighthouse end next to the Toby Keith banner isn't it?
 
I hate that banner as well. 

 

[Devizier]

The Patriots have a Toby Keith banner? Did Keith at least pay them for this?

 

[Leather]

IMO, banners should be arranged thusly:
 
1) Full size, stand alone, banners for each Championship.  Hung prominently.
2) Somewhat smaller, or differently colored (like the Red Sox do), banners for Conference championships.  Hung below or aside from Champ banners.
3) A single banner titled "Division Champs" (or the like) with the years listed underneath.  Hung below or to the side of the Conf. champ banners.
 
And, if they do retired numbers, those go somewhere else in the main stadium/arena area.    
 
"Special Banners" related to the sport (12th man, 16-0, 300 game sellout streak, etc...) are easily differentiated at first glance from the banners above as being "less notable"; smaller, different shape, whatever.  Those go yet somewhere else in the main stadium, preferably in a location less prominent.
 
Banners unrelated to the sport (Toby Keith, Springsteen Sellouts, 20th Anniversary of the stadium, etc...) are hung in a place that is not visible from the main seating area.  In the atrium or in the concourse or whatever.   Get that shit out of there.

 

[Trlicek's Whip]

 

[Ralphwiggum]

I mean, I know it's not the same, but the Pats have a 16-0 banner up at Gillette. I'd rather they take that one down.

Yeah, not remotely the same. I have no issues with the 16-0 banner and hope they keep it up as a reminder of the amazing accomplishment that was.

 

[Reverend]

Rumor that the Jets will raise this banner on their home opener is not yet confirmed.
 

 
Is this your work? Either way, it's marvelous.

 

[NortheasternPJ]

Agreed. It's a far more impressive accomplishment than being one of those 9-7/10-6 teams that caught fire in January and won a title. Deserves to be recognized in some format.

 
"What are great problems to have?"

 

[RedOctober3829]

This is old news.  I took a tour of Lucas Oil Stadium last week but they had the banners in the stadium down on the field as they were doing some work to them(presumably to add this one).  However, I was in their locker room and it turns out they have mini-banners hanging in there.  I've been in more than a few NFL locker rooms and this was the only place that had these.  It's a joke.  I took this picture and tweeted it out but nothing came about.
 

 

[RedOctober3829]

Last season's playoff run was something to celebrate and remember. Getting to the playoffs is difficult in this league, even if the Colts have made it look rather easy the last 15 years or so. Getting to the AFC Championship Game, reaching that Final Four, is really difficult. You can argue all you want that it was diminished by the fact the Bengals were missing key skill-position players, and that Peyton Manning wasn't exactly Peyton Manning when the Colts went to Denver and dominated the Broncos, but it's an accomplishment nonetheless.

Like going 16-0 in the regular season.

For which the Patriots fly a banner in Gillette Stadium.

Look, if you want to take issue with the Colts, take issue with the Ring of Honor, which includes a handful of players, and one repugnant former owner, who don't really belong there. But a banner commemorating a season when the Colts fell one game short of reaching the Super Bowl, and that's the most embarrassing, the most Colts-like thing ever?

Please.

It seems to me the Patriots and their legion of pom-pom-wearing media should worry more about SpyGate, and Deflategate, and Aaron Hernandez, and Brandon Spikes. Not to mention the fact they've lost Darrelle Revis and Brandon Browner and Vince Wilfork and some other folks who made such a big impact during the team's glory years. But they're too busy going through the Wells Report with a fine-toothed combed, fully buying the Patriots' insistence that the “deflator'' mention simply referenced a guy who was trying to lose weight.

Right. I lost 16 pounds the last two months. I deflated. Doesn't everybody use that terminology?
 

Personally, I think banners should be reserved for a few accomplishments. Division Champion – although the AFC South is the worst division in football, and therefore no great feat. Conference Champion – that's a big deal. Super Bowl Finalist – just getting there has to mean something. And, of course, Super Bowl Champion, which the Colts accomplished by beating the Chicago Bears in Miami on that rainy Sunday afternoon.

Simply making the playoffs ought to be a baseline expectation for this and every team, especially this team as it's presently constituted, and thus not terribly worthy of its own banner. Maybe do it like the Detroit Lions, who have two banners commemorating their playoff appearances, which have been few and far between.

This wouldn't be my choice; no it wouldn't. But I'm not ready to put it on blast, either, as our friends in New England have chosen to do. Again, they've got a 16-0 banner, so I'm not sure they've ascended the moral high ground. And couldn't you make a case that all those Patriots' Super Bowl banners ought to have asterisks affixed to them? Just asking for a friend.

Somehow, though, this has been cast as an example of the wussification of America, where we give out blue ribbons for participation to every good little boy and girl.

"This is the most Bob Kravitz banner I have ever seen,'' wrote a blogger named Turtleboy who write for something called Turtleboy.com.

Which is funny. Right after this column, I'm going to hang a small banner in my home office to celebrate the end of this piece and the fact I'll be leaving for the Bahamas in a day's time. Because, you know, that's the way I roll.
 

http://www.wthr.com/story/29299229/kravitz-the-colts-new-banner-seriously-whats-the-big-deal

 

[Leather]

Maybe the Colts can hang that Patriots banner that's been rolled up and stuck up Kravitz' ass.

 

[Ed Hillel]

I enjoy the part about how New England fans are sitting at their computers anxiously awaiting for the Colts to do something to laugh at. There is some irony in that, I'd say. I'm not sure there's a team more obsessed with another than the Colts and that ownership is with the Pats.

 

[54thMA]

Nice article; especially liked where he decided to break balls and mention that all four of the Patriots banners should have asterisks affixed to them.
 
I could break balls too and say the lone Colts Super Bowl banner should have one too for the piped in crowd noise and cranked up heat during the 2007 AFCCG.
 
It must really jerk a knot in his ass that if it wasn't for the Patriots, the Colts could have gone to three more Super Bowls.
 
Too fucking bad.

 

[kenneycb]

Holy hell why do you all feed/click the troll?

Edit: That said, I did enjoy the part quoted about the fact the Pats media should worry about Deflategate which was immediately contrasted with the assertion that they shouldn't review the Wells Report with a fine toothed comb. To reiterate, Kravitz is kind of a shitty writer.

 

[SeoulSoxFan]

Is this your work? Either way, it's marvelous.

 
Why thank you sir, you're an officer and a gentleman.

 

[mwonow]

I enjoy the part about how New England fans are sitting at their computers anxiously awaiting for the Colts to do something to laugh at. There is some irony in that, I'd say. I'm not sure there's a team more obsessed with another than the Colts and that ownership is with the Pats.

 
I dunno - there's at least a little evidence that the Jets have an even worse case of Patsitis...
 
I'm just happy to be on the other side of this, having grown up with the MFYs and Habs