I wanna say no just because I don’t wanna believe the niners would do that but both times the injuries were cramps, which can be easily faked so I dont know.

to BBS… He gets madly offended. Peyton Manning never does anything wrong, the game was only close because we cheated, and Peyton tore apart our D all game, and the 49ers D was not prepared and played terribly.

Singletary? No.

I could never see Fooch making ridiculous accusations or calling another teams player or coach a vomit-inducing complete tool and a dirty schmuck. Makes me glad to know we have someone like him reppin’ us Niner fans.

Here’s a news flash: Every team in the NFL fakes cramps/injuries. It happens all the time.

I mean who’s to say Singletary even told them to do it? How do you know Haralson didn’t just decide to do it himself? Oh! that’s right the COLTS RADIO ANNOUNCER saw Singletary giving the team signals, which of course were “dirty fake an injury” signals. Luckily the radio announcer is a professional hand signal decipherer on the weekends, so he knew Sing’s signals were dirty and not just regular defensive signals.

It’s fine to complain and be annoyed by it, but to call someone a bunch of harsh names based off something a homertastic radio announcer said is just plain unnecessary.

Such a hater. He’s mad because we almost beat them. What a doucebag

was the one indicating “strip the ball” late in the game when the Colts were killing the clock.

Why didn’t the Fox announcers make any comments about the 49ers faking injuries? Perhaps because they are impartial, unlike Indianapolis Colts broadcasters. Were the 49ers LBs faking leg cramps? Who knows, certainly not the Colts broadcasters or the bloggers at BBS.

Leg cramps are freakin’ painful, I know that much, and when players are on the field as much as the 49ers defense was, they tend to happen. Seeing as the cramps only happened twice, I can’t decide if they were “faked” or not, and nor can anyone else.

Wonder why the Colts bloggers didn’t mention how the refs failed to call offsides on the play that Crabtree fumbled, or how they didn’t give the 49ers time to substitute while the Colts substituted during their hurry-up offense?

LOL

BBS goes and throws it all out the window. I hope the other two AFC South blogs show a little bit more class.
I do thank you classy Colts fans for staying classy though (ANGELSFAITH).

I don’t know if they were really injuries. I can see why there’s suspicion, but I don’t see proof. Some radio announcers saw signals? Did we use the same signals later for a different situation? How would they even know that, since they’re supposed to be watching what’s going on on the field so they can describe it to their listeners? How do those radio announcers even know what our signals mean? How do they know Singletary was behind it? Say it was a few coaches and Singletary found out later and told them to stop, so you didn’t see it later in the game. Why not call the coaches making the signals bums? Why Singletary and only Singletary? He’s singling out one man and attacking him for something where we don’t know the full story.

And his justification is that the Colts fans in the seats and two announcers (just because they’re good guys and don’t lie doesn’t mean they can’t be mistaken) think the same thing all of a sudden that automatically amounts to cheating? Is he trying to imply that if a group of people believe something to be true, that automatically makes it true? That’s the sort of implication that, in situations more serious than sports, leads to people getting mistakenly harassed/persecuted/killed.

If you want to speculate, that’s fine. We all do that. But you don’t have to hurl accusations and call names based on things that aren’t proven.

To be honest, I assumed these comments came from a Stampede Blue member, not the head. I would expect something like this from an average community member. There’s always kneejerk reactions and every community has people that overreact. But I was surprised to read in the comments here that this was from the editor in chief, and to me that’s just shameful. Not only that, in his full recap he came out and repeated his name calling. There’s plenty of Colts fans on the blog that have managed to comment and speculate and maybe even accuse without being so vicious. I only wish their editor approached things the same way.

Show me proof better than “everyone thinks it therefore it happened” and then you can say all you want. File a complaint with the authorities. Go through all the legal means you want. If you have a case with legs, then it’ll get somewhere. If it doesn’t, then maybe it’s not as “obvious” as you think it is. Until then, this type of character assassination against one man is rash and unwarranted.

And of course, great game, Colts fans. We threw everything we could at you (and you have every right to SPECULATE that we threw more than the rules allowed), but you guys are a quality team and proved it. Much respect and I hope you guys go deep into the playoffs.

and think it is extremely distasteful for two or three guys on that blog to be bashing our team because we actually refused to wilt under the stare of Peyton Manning (who i think IS the best qb in the game). from reading some comments over at Stampede Blue, i get the sense that even some of the colts fans are offended by what their supposed “leader” said. very classless and moot at this point.
Congrats Colts fans, you guys won a close one, be happy about the W and good luck the rest of the year

Manning has to do with this? Or the Colts as a team.

If you take it for what it is, it is cheating. Regardless of whether or not it goes on in the game, that doesn’t make it right.

I am sure that no Colt player has never faked an injury to take a blow, let another player recover from a hit, or to slow down a game. In a related note, all of the Colts double knot their shoes, part their hair from left to right and help old ladies across the street.

It’s freakin’ football. I laughed when Haralson and Spikes went down – it was a good tactic in a good game. It isn’t cheating – there is no rule against it and never will be because it can’t be proven. Furthermore, the Colts don’t need the hurry up to win – they use it as a tactic to catch the other team off guard. Football is a game of chess – both teams play back and forth.

Calling Singletary anything other than smart for this strategy is simply sour grapes. Actually, I would be suprised if other teams don’t try the same thing to slow them down…

And for those overly concerned about this, BBS has been called out a bit on his site for his comments. Please don’t go over there just to complain about what he said unless you can make an intelligent, cogent point. If you just want to yell at him or call him stupid or whatever, don’t go over there and comment.

http://www.stampedeblue.com/2009/11/1/1110395/recap-week-eight-colts-18-49ers-14#comments

Haralson went down almost certainly to slow down the Colt’s offense…and it happens all the time in the NFL.

I love listening to Plummer’s analysis during the games.