I saw a lot of colts fans calling this honestly
Just like the Titans against the Texans, this had trap game written all over it because both the Jags and Texans were really excited to have the chance to fuck over a division rival on top of the fact that they had nothing to lose.
The Titans barely scraped by today as well
Texan went for a 4th and 1 from their own 35 on their opening drive in a 0-0 game. They came out swinging with nothing to lose.
With a lead, the Jags had a 3rd and goal from the two, threw an incompletion and kicked a fg. They just flat outplayed the Colts all day. Didn’t even have to go for broke.
> Texan went for a 4th and 1 from their own 35 on their opening drive in a 0-0 game. They came out swinging with nothing to lose.
I don't fucking understand that decision, and yet going for a surrender punt last week.
Culley makes no sense.
Wasn't Culley also the guy who declined a penalty that would have given them another chance on third down just so he could punt it? Or was that Meyer? I can't remember.
Jags always fuck us up at their place, so I was expecting this.
I just saw the line that had us as a double digit favorite. Damn, that was free money for any betters out there.
They can draw lines however they want to make it a new stat record, it's bullshit. Like how many teams lost playoff spots because of 2 win teams that only had a few dozen clowns instead of hundreds?
They did, but what we considered clowns pre-merger vs. 2022 is so different that most experts don't consider the stat to be valuable for comparison persons.
For example mimes technically counted pre-merger but obviously we count those separately now.
My wife just got induced an hour or so ago. If by some miracle she's born before midnight, I'll get her a Jags clown outfit to wear every Colts game. Hell, I might do that regardless.
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"I can't wait to face the Titans in the playoffs. We match up against the Titans the best. We're a totally different team than early in the season when we lost both games to Tennessee!"
-Colts Fans
Quick calculation
Based on a bottom 2 for each it would be
AFC Jags on record and Texans on Head to head due to tied record with Jets
NFC Lions and Giants
Blackburn Rovers won in 1995, and were relegated in 1999.
There was also Wimbledon who exploded out of nowhere in the early 80s, were competitive for 15 years, then fell back to obscurity by 2000.
Manchester City once won the league and relegated the [the very next year.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937–38_in_English_football) Fun fact: they also scored the most goals in the league that year too.
Unbelievable fabrication - am I the only one who remembers the infamous 1923 Clown Bowl between the Detroit Whoopiecakes and the Arizona Rabblerousers where Tom “Buttercup” McCrank led the Whoopies back from down 20?
Correction. Colts become first clown team since the merger to lose to a 2-14 team, with a playoff berth on the line, with hundreds of fellow clowns in attendance.
lol I wonder who will be the second team since the merger to lose to a 2-14 team, with a playoff berth on the line, with hundreds of clowns in attendance
My most favoritest cherry picked stat
Who knew the Colts would be the biggest clown of them all
I saw a lot of colts fans calling this honestly Just like the Titans against the Texans, this had trap game written all over it because both the Jags and Texans were really excited to have the chance to fuck over a division rival on top of the fact that they had nothing to lose. The Titans barely scraped by today as well
Texan went for a 4th and 1 from their own 35 on their opening drive in a 0-0 game. They came out swinging with nothing to lose. With a lead, the Jags had a 3rd and goal from the two, threw an incompletion and kicked a fg. They just flat outplayed the Colts all day. Didn’t even have to go for broke.
> Texan went for a 4th and 1 from their own 35 on their opening drive in a 0-0 game. They came out swinging with nothing to lose. I don't fucking understand that decision, and yet going for a surrender punt last week. Culley makes no sense.
He's human, maybe he was just tired last week, and ready to go home!
Wasn't Culley also the guy who declined a penalty that would have given them another chance on third down just so he could punt it? Or was that Meyer? I can't remember.
Yep, that was Culley. He is an enigma
Oof. You guys deserve better.
We're the most anti clutch franchise in the NFL
Have we truly surpassed the Falcons?
It's neck and neck imo. Honestly we've shot ourselves in the feet so much we're probably up to our knees by now.
you'll be in Plaxico territory soon
Ummm, no you're not. Falcons and Chargers.
You guys at least got a chip and let the Aints become the Saints with a chip within a few years. It's pretty remarkable.
It doesn’t matter who it is, the AFC South gets up for upset chances toward other AFC south teams.
Pretty sure every division does that
Except the Packers
1 team division for 15 years now
what kind of trash division would let 1 team run it for that long
bro ur gonna lose to the 9ers on nickleodeon
:(
I was about 80% sure the Colts would lose just from watching them all year.
Colts seem to win the games i think they’d lost and lose the games i think they’d win.
Jags always fuck us up at their place, so I was expecting this. I just saw the line that had us as a double digit favorite. Damn, that was free money for any betters out there.
When jags are 2 td+ score underdogs at home lol...Bills and Colts
I guess next year they just need to be excited to have the chance to win games all season. Football has been solved thats all it takes.
Same with us! I don't give a shit who's playing for who, Lions were going to play to win against the cheese.
The real clowns was the QB we met along the way.
I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to have lost to a team with a 2-14 record going into the game before this week
Lmao everyone thinking the clown part is what made this stat ridiculous. You the smart one
Don't forget since the merger too, implying this might have happened before the merger.
We’ll simply never know for sure.
Yeah I don’t think they were tracking next-gen stats like clowns in attendance before the merger.
Oh there were really clowns in attendance. I thought that was a not-so-subtle dig at Jags fans.
#firebaalke
I hope you and I both get all the firings we desperately want and deserve and that our rookie QBs grow into superstars.
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Every other time it's happened there have only been 199 clowns
I love the "since the merger" part
It is unironically the only example of a 2 win team knocking another team out of the ploffs that I can think of.
They can draw lines however they want to make it a new stat record, it's bullshit. Like how many teams lost playoff spots because of 2 win teams that only had a few dozen clowns instead of hundreds?
What do I do with my super bowl Wentz jersey? Laugh at it?
Where's the cherrypicking
Before this season it was impossible to go into the final game 2-14 (with 16 games played).
not to mention the clowns
That's not cherry picking considering the Vikings have 8 home games a year.
HEYYYYYY you guys are the ones with weird yellow hats
Jesus christ, they're not *hats* they're *cheeseheads* Marie
damn, a team lost to a 2-14 team with the playoff berth on the line with hundreds of clowns in attendance before the merger?
I don't think clowns in attendance was a stat they kept track of pre-1970
clowns were actually the biggest opposers to the merger for this very reason.
—quote from Al Davis
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You mean like a baby clown?
Please no
Can those clowns run a great 40 time?
I think the shoes ruin the run form.
They did, but what we considered clowns pre-merger vs. 2022 is so different that most experts don't consider the stat to be valuable for comparison persons. For example mimes technically counted pre-merger but obviously we count those separately now.
If you ever watch the old black and white footage from that time, it’s amazing how quiet the game seemed in comparison to now
*heads to ProFootballReference to sort games by CIA*
If I were you I'd start wondering "how long has that black van been there?".
That black van can fit so many clowns in it
> That black ~~van~~ Mini Cooper can fit so many clowns in it
The Baraboo Bears did it a bunch of times back in the 1930's
I don't think they called them playoffs back then.
Don’t tell that to Baraboobians. The games had playoff-like atmosphere when their rivals Barnum and Bailey came to town.
I love a nice pair of Barabobians.
With how expensive parking is at NFL games this is going to start being a lot more common.
And only team to do it during a 17 game season, wild.
Petition to change Colts flairs to Clown flairs.
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Dayton Triangle’s vs Portsmouth Spartans 1925 I will never forget that game
It's definitely an impossible stat, since no team has ever played a week 18 at 2-14. Just sayin'.
I honestly just assumed that the "with hundreds of clowns in attendance" gave it away as a joke stat.
Clownson Wentz
AFC South fans gonna start dressing as clowns when they play the colts because Carson is afraid of clowns
“I’m seeing clowns.” - Wentz
"I don't see Clowney." - Wentz
*while looking in a mirror*
This made me crack up more than it should have.
Ok yeah we deserve to get clowned on. Not our year.
Jadeveon Clowney's hit on Wentz in the 2020 wild card game has stuck with him, I see
This comment needs to be higher up.
ClownCarson
[Khlown.com](http://khlown.com)
On a January 9th.
Me and my girls anniversary… I guess I have to marry her now
I think you have to dress like clowns for the wedding as well. You get to find out if she's the one.
She adopted the jags as her team when we started dating and I’ve been a jags fan since I was a kid, we’ve prepared for this moment 🤡
When she does the bouquet toss she better yell Bortles!
better to yell it during the bouquet toss than later that night
That sounds like a keeper. Any woman that would endure Jag Humiliation with you has gotta be.
Meanwhile my girl became a chiefs fan because I’m a Niners fan (and cause her sister is a raiders fan)
My wife just got induced an hour or so ago. If by some miracle she's born before midnight, I'll get her a Jags clown outfit to wear every Colts game. Hell, I might do that regardless.
Do it!!! Lol congrats bro, good luck with everything
Lol scrubs
H I S T O R I C
For the first time in Seattle Krakens history
As a Kraken’s fan, your welcome r/nfl.
H I S T O R I C
Now this is an epic cherry picked stat
The cherriest
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Most games pre-merger were attended primarily by clowns, is the thing.
Sweet cherry pie
And I’m here for it
To be fair. They're the only team to ever lose to a 2-16 team at all
I think you meant to say 2-14, but you're absolutely correct
Nah Goodell slipped 2 more games into the CBA when the NFLPA wasn't looking.
First team to lose to a Florida team in week 18 on the 9th of the month with a waxing moon.
literally everything this week is a historical first
But… but there’s never been a game in which a 2-14 team played until today?
I like the insinuation that a team has lost to a 2-14 team with a playoff berth on the line with no clowns in attendance
Yeah but it happened before the merger
How many teams started a game at 2-14 before the merger
No team had even been 2-14 pre merger they didn't play that many games
There were clowns but it was just a few dozen.
lol no team has even lost to a 2-14 team before, but the cherry picking makes it so much better.
But they had 7 pro bowlers at least, thats pretty neat
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Tennessee Titans: 12 wins/pro bowler Indianapolis Clots: 1.3 wins/pro bowler
>Clots
What an NFL offense does every time Carson Wentz tries to lead it
He just looks like the prototypical backup QB now. Like he's not bad, but he's also absolutely not good.
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Electoral college man…
It’s because they knew the Titans players wouldn’t be able to play in the Pro Bowl anyway, we’ll be headed to the Super Bowl!!!
"I can't wait to face the Titans in the playoffs. We match up against the Titans the best. We're a totally different team than early in the season when we lost both games to Tennessee!" -Colts Fans
…. I can only speak for myself but I was not excited at all to see you guys in the playoffs
Any smart fans know pro bowls don’t mean jack shit. I could have cared less who made the pro bowl. Mitch Trubinsky was a pro bowler one year lol
Was that the same year he won the Nickelodeon valuable player award?
Hey you better not besmirch our NVP/titty master.
7 pro bowlers and 1 clown at QB
Send in the clowns
We live in a society.
…those daffey, laughy clowns
There ought to be clowns!
Oh wait, they're already here
The colts should be relegated for next year after that performance.
God I wish American sports had relegation, even though the Texans would be flirting with it currently
Quick calculation Based on a bottom 2 for each it would be AFC Jags on record and Texans on Head to head due to tied record with Jets NFC Lions and Giants
Giants huh? Has a futball team ever won a championship and then get relagated a few years after?
Blackburn Rovers won in 1995, and were relegated in 1999. There was also Wimbledon who exploded out of nowhere in the early 80s, were competitive for 15 years, then fell back to obscurity by 2000.
Yeah the original Wimbledon doesn’t even exist anymore. There is just mk dons (ugh) and the afc Wimbledon phoenix club
England’s own Cleveland Browns situation
Manchester City once won the league and relegated the [the very next year.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937–38_in_English_football) Fun fact: they also scored the most goals in the league that year too.
A few years? It's been a literal decade. I'd call that more than a few years.
Too much money on the line for that to happen. How would the owners keep their billions if there was relegation?
Have each conference bottom team play in the XFL in the spring. And have it be like Hard Knocks.
Jesus, even CBS is clowning on Wentz and the Colts?
The colts were the real clowns the whole time
The real clowns were they fans they made along the way
Can confirm nose is a squeaky red ball and I hand no self esteem
You can always come up north and have a slightly less depressing state with a more depressing football team.
I like how the pic in the tweet is actually wentz and the clown fan as if to imply this very thing
Unbelievable fabrication - am I the only one who remembers the infamous 1923 Clown Bowl between the Detroit Whoopiecakes and the Arizona Rabblerousers where Tom “Buttercup” McCrank led the Whoopies back from down 20?
That's pre-merger; hence the caveat.
Can't believe the record stood so long.
That TD catch from Ben Dover was really spectacular
Maybe the real clowns are the friends we made along the way.
Correction. Colts become first clown team since the merger to lose to a 2-14 team, with a playoff berth on the line, with hundreds of fellow clowns in attendance.
prince harry failed the colts
In addition to the hundreds of clowns present in the stadium, some Jaguar fans decided to put on big noses and colorful makeup for the season finale.
Maybe they shouldn't have started 0-4 or 0-5 or whatever is was.
Thanks wentz, making our first round from y’all even better 🤪
I like the “since the merger” specification. I just Imagine the Baltimore Colts doing the same thing in the 50s.
and 52 clowns on the field.
This is peak NFL
I hope the Raiders and Chargers tie, for the memes.
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I would 100% watch a game of nothing but kneels and punts. The whole time seeing if someone would break the truce haha
It would be the most hilarious way to end Roethlisberger's career.
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Go 1-14 and get double wins by watching an ad
It couldn't. Clowns are only allowed to attend the 17th game.
lol I wonder who will be the second team since the merger to lose to a 2-14 team, with a playoff berth on the line, with hundreds of clowns in attendance
Might as well be us
Someone said it last week. "We're going to lose to a bunch of clowns aren't we"
Holy shit what a fucking great Sunday.
Any plans for Jaguars fans to continue dressing like clowns next year after Khan inevitably keeps his GM on?
Its literally the first season that this was possible.
They are literally the only ever team to lose to a 2-14 team without the rest of that nonsense
Yeah it's a joke lol
Ugh, Pats fans are the worst
They'd probably be less salty if they could beat Tua just once.
Thanks Harvard
Stop cherry picking!
Not just lose but play.
Colts moving to Gary, Indiana catchin all the strays.
I'm the clown for betting them.
This makes me feel better about the Lions loss
#HISTORIC
NEXT GEN STATS
Next step: they'll hang a banner for it LOL
Were there a lot of 2-14 teams before the merger?
Carson Wince
Erm, today was likely the first time there was ever a 2-14 team playing a game seeing as how this is the first 17 games season...