Remember the Colts?

Has a potential back-to-back Super Bowl champion ever flown under the radar quite like the Indianapolis Colts?

No reason to see why they can’t repeat except for, well, You Know Who.

New England’s run to a perfect season has cast such a shadow over the NFL that even the Colts and Peyton Manning are afterthoughts.

Blowing a 10-point, fourth-quarter lead at home to the Patriots during the regular season and showing up flat the following week at San Diego is not exactly the way to enhance your status as a possible repeat champion. But the Colts were without a few starters in those games, and Manning’s awful night in San Diego could be attributed to a post-Patriots hangover.

That no one is giving any team a chance to beat New England in the postseason may be the best thing to happen to a defending Super Bowl champ. The pressure is all on Tom Brady & Co.

The Colts can go about their business without having to defend their status as defending champs.
What championship team wouldn’t want that kind of non-pressure?