Perfection!

Perfection!

Two professional football teams are chasing the unblemished record. Sixteen games without defeat.

Sixteen weeks against the best the NFL has to offer...add to that a couple of playoff wins and a Super Bowl victory...and that makes it nineteen! Highly unlikely and down right impossible. It is hard to do and it is a rarity. It has happened only once. Back in 1972, the Miami Dolphins went 14-0 during the regular season (back in those days, they had it a little easier), won two playoff games and then defeated the Washington Redskins in Super Bowl VII.

Seventeen wins without a loss. I was 26 years old at the time, and if you're my age and a pro football fan, then you'd remember what went down and the names of the guys who accomplished the feat. Do these names ring a bell? Bob Griese, Earl Morrall, Larry Csonka, Mercury Morris, Paul Warfield and head coach Don Shula. Fast forward to this season and you have the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints at 12-0. Two very good football teams with two very good quarterbacks, Peyton Manning for the Colts and Drew Brees for the Saints. I hope I didn't jinx the two teams by bringing this up. I have a habit of doing that.

I can't see it happening this year, but then again, I'm not a very good fortuneteller, either.