You play to win the game....

Herm Edwards is known to New York Giants fans as the guy that stuck a meat cleaver in our chests in the play that I hate to refer as a miracle. When he coached the Jets He boldly and angrily stood up in front of the media and said" YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME, YOU PLAY TO WIN THE GAME, HELLO!!!" Most of us laughed at what he said and the clip is used in several different capacities all over the sports world. For some reason, NFL players and announcers don't like to play football or talk about football. In the summer, the pre-season is too long. Even though some teams don't decide on who their starting players are until the last moment, some teams need more practice than other, and some teams just plain suck. Every year we hear the same rants about pre-season football as a waste of time. The other time of year when football players don't want to play football is in December when they feel that everything is wrapped up and they can magically turn on this magic switch and begin to play again and win a championship. Resting players is a relative new phenomenon and I can't understand. What the Colts did yesterday disgraced football and all sports.
The Indianapolis Colts are 14-1 because they disgraced all sports yesterday. They had a 5 point lead in a game that "meant nothing to them"but meant the world to 7 other teams. The Jets offense had not done a thing and their defense was hanging in but they were losing. The Colts last week became the third team in NFL history to become 14-0 and were a shoe in to finish the regular season undefeated. So instead of playing the game for 60 minutes, the Coach of the Colts decided to pull his starters and the Jets got hot and won the game by 2 touchdowns. I am disgusted. I am appalled and cannot believe that in this day and age of gambling and fantasy football leagues, no one has gone to the coaches house and slapped him around. I can't believe that people are defending what they did. Ron Artest got injured in his home "allegedly" he slipped and fell. People get injured all of the time doing simple tasks. I wish I remembered the name of that baseball player ( I think it was Torii Hunter) who got injured playing play station. I remember the Niners would rest Montana for games, but they had Steve Young and most of the regulars played. I know that football is not life and death but what they did yesterday makes no sense especially since fans paid money to watch them play. Plus they were going for history. Can you imagine Tiger Woods playing in the Players Championship and saying well I am up by three with nine holes to play, Stevie you finish for me, I only want to win the U.S. open next week. I don't want to win any tournament that is not going to allow me pass Jack Nicklaus. You play the other tournaments to make sure that you have the fortitude to stand in there and make a putt with all of the pressure on the line. You play a 16 game season knowing that you are going to have peaks and valleys.How many teams get the opportunity to go undefeated. Remember when the Bulls broke the record for 70 wins in a season. They played all of the games out that year and won 72 total. When Bonds passed McGwire he wanted to put the record so no one could touch it. Tony Dungy said for weeks that this would happen. We thought that Peyton Manning would want to be known for something that his father wasn't known for. His father quarterbacked the Saints back in the day when they would lose in the most ridiculous ways. Look at the Saints. They have lost two games in a row and for some reason, their defense can not stop anyone after killing everyone. They have beaten the Giants, Eagles, Patriots in big blowout games and now they cannot beat the Buccaneers? I hope they lose in the second round of the playoffs. I hope that Patriots get the 4 seed and play the Colts in the second round and beat the hell out of the Colts. GO Chargers!!!!!