It's amazing that the Patriots continue to win SUper Bowls or go undefeated in the regular season despite the fact that the league is soooo against them. It must just be the genius of Bill Beeeelichik.
Yeah, how does that happen?
Debating football with JCC kind of makes you feel like this guy:
specially when JCC's team whoops the shiite out of dallas IN THEIR HOUSE
so tell us why the Colts get to play the Pats at home AGAIN ...if its not the NFLs BIAS ??
Okay, that was weird. I had put up a post that basically refuted your contention that the Colts and Pats always play in Indy (I don't know what happened to it). Actually, since the 2002 realignment (when the current scheduling formula went into force), the teams have played five times during the regular season, three in Foxboro, two in Indy. And they haven't even played enough consecutive times in Indy to make it "seem like they never play in Foxboro". Before last season, the Pats hosted three consecutive years.
ETA: Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colts-Patriots_rivalry
hey wikipedia boy... your post prolly got deleted cause it was WRONG !!
I've watched EVERY SINGLE GAME you're talking about & you forget to mention the PLAYOFFS .... the reg/. season game has been the deciding factor in who gets homefield in their playoff matchup....
the ONLY reason there was consecutive homefield games for either team, was because the winner of the regular season game had clinched homefield in the PLAYOFFS....
thats one reason why their rivalry has been so fierce..... so yeah, their regular season games have alternated homefield advantages EVERY year up until this year...
historically, whoever wins the regular season game, has moved on to homefield in the playoffs & ALWAYS advanced to the SB after beating the other ....
I have no idea what you're trying to say and I doubt that you do either. From 1970-2001, they were division rivals. That means that they each played one home game and one away game every year, and because they've each been so good, they've played each other each of the last five seasons. You don't seem to be contesting my point that the Patriots have hosted more than the Colts since 2003, and I fail to see how the playoffs are relevant. In these last several years, of the three times that they've met in the playoffs, the host team for the regular season game lost in the playoffs.
Your main point, however, has been that there is a bias in which team hosts there regular season game. That's just not true. The scheduling "formula" has been out there since 2002. Since NE and IND are in the same conference but not in the same division, they are guaranteed to face each other at least once every three years. Three years after that meeting, they switch stadiums. However, in the interim, they may face each other again if they finish in the same spots in their respective divisions. This is why they've faced each other every year since '03. The only question, then, is how the NFL decides exactly who plays at home in those games. My guess is that they switch off somehow, but Im not sure.
WHO CARES ABOUT 1970 -2001 ??
from 2001 on up is THE COLTS/PATS rivalry ....
and as I just told you, they used to alternate thier reg season game homefield advantage from 2001 up until THIS YEAR...
and the WINNER of that regular season matchup ALWAYS went further in the playoffs & ALWAYS beat the other in the post season....and they ALWAYS had homefield advantage in the playoffs as a result of their reg season metting, because that 1 game made the difference as far as 'best record'..
you don't seem to realize that the colts/pats have had the best records these past 7 years & which ever team loses their reg. season matchup against each other, ALWAYS loses homefield advantage & ALWAYS loses in the playoffs when/if they meet again...
basically, their reg. season matchup game has been THE deciding factor in the outcome of their entire season...
this year, the NFL is loading it for the Colts, AGAIN, because they have broken the mold & granted the colts another homefield against the PATS this season ....the colts had homefield last year , so this should've been the Pats turn at homefield...
are you still confused ?? ....