Today is opening day. The Colts at the Patriots, all alone on the big stage to open the 2004 NFL season tonight in Foxboro. And while the Colts keep saying it is the start of a new season, not a rematch, and that they don’t think about revenge, they are human and this game has to be the one they have been salivating over for 8 months.

In case you have been in a hole for the last year the Colts lost the AFC Championship game to the Patriots last season 24-14 as Peyton Manning and company laid down and died for a half before actually making a game of it late.

The Patriots have run roughshod over the Colts for years and it is time to take the bull by the horns and change that shit! Tonight the Colts will win in Foxboro and it will be the result of a balanced attack on offense and a solid effort on D. Expect Edgerrin James to run for a hundred and Peyton to throw for 250 and a couple TD’s. Look for an opportunistic D to take the ball away from the Pats and looks for Willie McGinnest, Teddy Bruschi, the Purse Boy and Bill Belichek to be pissing in their Wheaties by tomorrow morning.

Colts 27 Patriots 10!

I feel like I better make a season prediction today as well. At the top of the preseason I thought the Colts could pull a 14-2 rabbit out of their hat this year. As preseason progressed I wasn’t certain they could get to 2-14, but after last weeks performance I feel better.

I thought that tonights game and the finale in Denver would be losses, but that we would run the table in between. The thinking was that if the Colts got to 14-1 the last game would not be an issue and players could rest.

I will now predict that we will go 13-3. I really look at the schedule and feel like if we get past tonight we might run the table period. But that is unrealistic and with injuries and bad breaks, even the best teams seem to lose three these days. I don’t know which ones they will be, but I just see 3 in the tea leaves.

But today is all about the Colts and New England. Our bitter AFC East rivals for years, they have managed to stay on our schedule even with us now in the South. Tonight, and granted it is but one of 16 games, the Patriots find out what the Broncos and the Titans already know. Say Peyton Manning can’t win against you or in a big game and you will get burned!