Sports- Denver Broncos vs. Indianapolis Colts

vs. Indianapolis Colts(L 20-38)
For the second consecutive week, the Broncos flashbacked to an ugly playoff loss. This time, they had a choice, though: relive the Colts Wild Card Playoff Bludgeoning of the 2003 or 2004 season.

The Donkeys ran the ball with Travis Henry in the first half and stayed in the game with the Colts. Second half, Mike Shanahan again tries to turn Jay Cutler into a One Man Gang and they get blown out. At this rate, Cutler will be out of the league within 5 years, when he should have been on the way to a decent 10-12 year career. Sure, the Colts adjusted to Henry's running by the late second quarter, but that wasno reason to suddenly go back to this supposedly "flashy" passing crap. Especially when the Donkeys were without Javon Walker.

What's most frustrating to the Donkeys (and particularly Ian Gold) is how the Colts were down 0-10 and really didn't have to work to get back into the game. It was business as usual and they soon found themselves with a 14-13 lead. So in leiu of actual coverage and in keeping with the retro theme of the past two Donkey games, I feel it is only appropriate to re-visit another Famous Donkey Fuck-Up in History:

The following takes place before the Battle of Valverde on Feburary 21, 1862, a little known Civil War Conflict that took place out in New Mexico.

The Donkey Bomb
The night before the Confederate victory at Valverde, a sneak attack that might have given the Yankees a victory failed. Captain "Paddy" Graydon, commanding a company of Union volunterres, came up with a novel idea. He asked for two old mules and a few boxes of howitzer shells and then rigged them up with fuses, turning them into "donkey bombs". The two armies were encamped on opposite sides of the Rio Grande, and the idea what that Graydon and a few volunteers would swim the river, inflitrate the enemy camp, and set the bomb-carrying mules free near the rebel corral. The Union mules would mix in with the Confederate mules, and the shells would explode, inflicting casualties, and destroying the enemy's supplies. Graydon's request was approved.

That night the radiers swam the river. They came within 150 yards of the enemy corral. They could smell the rebel mules. They lit the fuses on thr howitzer shells, slapped the mules on the rump, and began their retreat. But they had forgotten one important detail: they hadn't briefed the mules on their part of the operation. Seeing their masters leaving, the mules turned and trotted toward them.

Paddy and his men took off, running barefoot through cactus and catclaw bushes. Naturally, the mules sped up. The men were running, the fuses were burning, and the mules were gaining (one of nature's laws is that a four-legged mule can run faster than a two-legged man) when KABOOM!, a dozen 24-pound shells exploded, scaterring mule parts over a large chunk of New Mexico and scaring the hell out of the soldiers in both camps. Paddy and his footsore Commandos limped back to camp at daybreak.