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Issue #198 – Brash Brutes from Broadway

thehorseshoe | January 27, 2010 in Issues | Comments (2)

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AFC Championship: Colts vs Jets Haiku Count: 1515
Upstarts land first punch
Ready to plan their parade
after first quarter.
Pride of Port au Prince
No quake can shake his resolve
For team or country.
Unconcerned with stats
Workman like efficiency
Reggie plays decoy.
Fleet-footed brick wall
Colt defenders fly to ball
Soon, names known to all.
Studying old film
from Rex Ryan’s Ravens days
Manning beats the blitz.
Somehow soft Dome team
Out-muscled and out-hustled
Brash brutes from Broadway.
Play action miscues
give Jets chance for big play scores
Second half, shutout.
18 surveys field
Given time and exposure
Defense unravels
Regardless of rest
Fact remains perfect season
Was within their reach.
No greater reward
For fans, city, players
Chance to be Champ’on.

Issue #197 – Twenty ticks, Eternity

thehorseshoe | January 20, 2010 in Issues | Comments (1)

Div. Round: Colts 20 Ravens 3
Haiku Count: 1505
Manning, the Time Lord
Twenty ticks, Eternity
Four chances to score.
Raven runners swarm’d
by sea of would-be tacklers
No daylight; no holes.
Brackett tilts with Rice
Unheralded Scarlet Knight
wins battle and war.
Fleet footed waiter
won’t let Reed feast on bad throw
Great Haitian hustle!
AFC Championship: Colts vs Jets
Real pigskin karma
Colts hand Jets free playoff pass
Now they take it back.
Sixty separate
Colts from second Super Bowl
Miami awaits.
Remind Rex Ryan
Revis can cover one man
Others will break free.
New week, same gameplan
Stop run, limit turnovers.
Recipe for win

Issue #196 – Paintered Into Corner

thehorseshoe | January 6, 2010 in Issues | Comments (1)

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Week 17: Colts 7 Bills
Haiku Count: 1497
Coach sets team adrift
Paintered into a corner
Real snow job: press room.
Curtis a Trekkie?
His Kobayashi Maru
No Gorn; just Jets, Bills
Personal milestones
are worth risking injuries,
not so, perfection.
Polian’s belief
in *his* plan becomes blindess
when faced with logic.
Playoff Preview
Two game boondoggle
Should not deter team from goal
Lombardi Trophy
Bye week heals all wounds
Players bounce back ready; so too
Outraged fanbase
Leader as always,
Manning quells teammates’ strife &
asks fans, “Let it go.”
Playoff map takes shape.
Naptown to Miami trip
takes two games, three weeks.