How I Watch My Colts on Game Day:

Sunday is the highlight of my week during NFL season. I awake early and remember to put on my blue #18 jersey and my lucky horsehoe-charm necklace in anticipation of a Colts victory.  Here's the intriguing part now: I live in New Jersey (the actual home to not one, but two NFL teams as you know) and finding a Colts game airing on television here is virtually impossible, unless it's a prime-time, nationally-televised game. This leads to one of two scenarios for me on game day.

Scenario #1.  If the Colts are playing at 1:00pm or 4:15pm EST, the game is never shown on.....regular cable (that's right Peyton, I said it, I admit I'm still "watching on cable"). I've got, at most, two channels to choose from for Sunday football and, undoubtedly, both will be showing the NY Giants, NY Jets, or one of their division's rival's games. I've tried following Colts games online the past few years and, I'm sorry, but listening online just does not do justice to the amazing, "Can you believe that?!?" plays produced by my Colts. Consequently, I now take my boyfriend and we head over the border into New York to go to a popular bar/restaurant chain famous (you’ve seen the commercials, I’m sure) for showing any and all sports games and serving "wild" buffalo wings. Once we get there, I will case out the entire restaurant (to the chagrin of the host) to see where I need to sit based upon which television (singular) out of about two dozen televisions they will broadcast the Colts on.

So far, I've watched the season opener against the Jags on the smallest TV they had (with no sound or closed captioning), in the actual dark corner of the restaurant, hanging right above a deer-hunting video game. And I've discovered that playing a video deer hunting game is a popular Sunday activity, especially with the children of the other football fans who are all either cheering on the Giants, Jets, or Patriots (I know, don't even get me started on that.). I've also been stuck in watching the Colts play the Seahawks on the baby TV overshadowed by a grid of four huge projector TV's broadcasting the local games with sound!  This is how a Colts fan in this neck of the woods is treated.  RCA, please save me from shelling out money on overpriced wings and drinks, in addition to gas and tolls.

Anyway, I will order my wings & beverages and spend the entire 3+ hours of the game squinting at the TV and yelling out cheers of support for the smart plays, great catches, strong defensive stances, etc of my Colts. Unfortunately, there are no other Colts fans to high-five after an Indy touchdown, except my boyfriend who's more of a Giants fan anyway and who becomes easily distracted by the multiple, enormous TV's with sound showing the Giants. After the game, however, I proudly flaunt my jersey and my grin all the way home where I put on Sportscenter highlights to try and re-live the win.

Scenario #2.  Now, if the Colts are playing prime-time Sunday or Monday Night (thankfully, there have been three games like that already this season!), I will be watching same from home...........on my 17" tube TV. Oh the shame. I must have my snacks prepared beforehand and I will be in my game-day "uniform" of course. Then I will set up my three stuffed-animal Colts teddy bears (which by the way, I won from a claw game last summer on the Jersey Shore boardwalk) so that they face the TV.  These stuffed animals are my Colts fan posse.  I have named one Peyton of course, the others are named Reggie and Dallas.

I then grab my replica yellow flag and red challenge flag and keep them near me on my chair, which I, believe it or not, I do not even sit in. This is because I spend almost the entire game standing about five feet from the TV (perhaps because the screen is so small and dull to begin with) and JUMPING in place (it’s quite possible that one day I may actually jump so hard as to fall through to apartment downstairs), and YELLING out to the players through the TV as if I'm on the field and as if they can actually hear me or care what I'm shouting.

And then I watch the game......and

I shout with each hand-off to Joseph or Donald, and

I jump when Peyton releases a bullet of a pass only Dallas can catch or hurls a perfectly-placed ball right into Reggie's hands up the sideline, and

I pace back-and-forth with Colt defensive stances against a 3rd-and-2 ("Spin Dwight, spin! Get him! Yes!"), and

I kneel in prayer before a Vinatieri (or now Stover) field goal attempt, and

I throw my penalty flag liberally against the other team, and

I throw my challenge flag occasionally at the refs, and

I really don't even eat the snacks which I've prepared because I’m too busy yelling and being in the game, and

I never panic even when the Colts have fewer points than their opponents on the board, and

I just watch and wait for my Colts to finally finish with the "W", and

I just be the Colts fan that I am.

So that's how I watch my favorite NFL team, and that epitomizes why watching the Colts on an RCA LCD would be AMAZING! Then I wouldn't be constrained to watch Colts football in some dark, noisy corner of a chain restaurant while surrounded by deer-hunters on a small TV hoisted 9 feet in the air or on a small TV hanging under four 5-foot TV's showing every other game!

If I could watch from home on a new LCD from RCA, I would sign up for high-def immediately and subscribe to see ALL of my Colts games (and their inevitable trip to this season’s Superbowl) without the shame of admitting that I would be forced to watch them on a 17" tube television. With a new, large LCD from RCA, I could possibly stand farther than two yards from the TV as I watch it the game......or maybe even attempt to stay seated in my chair and just cheer from there. At the very least, if I decide to still stand the entirety of a Colts game, at least the players look big enough and defined enough to warrant my yelling out at them from my living room, right? I think so anyway.  So please consider sending one of those RCA LCD's my way to New Jersey.  This Colts fan is hurtin' here! 

LET'S GO COLTS!