Everybody is talking about Bill Belichick losing his mind and going for it on 4th and two deep in his own territory, up six, with about two minutes remaining, and most noteworthy, Peyton Manning standing on the other sideline.

Belichick and Brady will probably defend the call to their graves, but I assure you they will die wrong.  It reminded me of Marty Mornhinweg taking the wind in overtime as opposed to receiving.  Similarly, the other team took advantage of the horrifying (or gratifying depending on who you are) blunder.

What I want to focus on though is a couple hilarious post-game happenings.  Obviously, everyone expected Belichick to have a quick, nonchalant hand-graze with Jim Caldwell, but what we probably didn't expect was what happened after the briefest of meetings at midfield.

As Belichick was speedwalking off the field, Matt Stover, kicker for the Indianopolis Colts, ran over to Belichick and put his hand on Belichick's arm and said what I imagine was along the lines of, "Thanks for that, Bill.  I got the winning point!"  Bill looked at the kicker like he wanted to spit on him, then quickly gave him the ultimate cold shoulder.

Notice that Stover has the game ball in this picture.  I realize Stover was with Belichick in Cleveland from 91-95, but I can't believe Stover's dumb, or naive, enough to feel he's going to get a warm greeting from Belichick after that game.  It just seemed silly to me, but he's a kicker.  What do you expect?

Almost immediately after that a camerman got boss tossed by Belichick's body guard.

Nope, they're not holding hands.

"Down you go little guy," says Mr. Clean Bodyguard.

I have video, but it was taken on my five-year old cousin's Little Tikes camera, so bear with me on the shoddiness:

Here's a pretty good video of it.

UPDATE:

Interesting discussion going on over at Advanced NFL Stats [via 18to88] regarding BB's call.  I think anyone who thinks BB was right because of these stats is overanalyzing the hell out of this.  In that situation, you punt, put some faith in your defense, and make the Colts travel 70 yards as opposed to 28.  I'm going to go ahead and disregard any opinions from Patrios/Colts fans because based off comments I've seen they're way too absorbed in themselves.  The majority of Patriots fans will probably deflect blame elsewhere because BB is their God.  Colts fans are so cocky with their undefeated team right now, they think they would have won if the Pats punted too

I can't be convinced with the stats provided by ANS.  This isn't an automated robot sport or a freaking video game.  Considering the basic variables, in my opinion, you punt there and hope the Colts can't drive 70 yards on your defense.  And I'd say showing trust in your defense is way more important there than eradically trying to show your offense you trust them because it is ostracizing your defense. Now you're dealing with a loss because your offense wasn't as trustworthy as you thought and your defense has to have the awful taste in their mouths that their coach didn't have enough faith in them to stop the Colts from 70 yards away.   On ESPN all night, I heard Brady back the call up, I heard Faulk back it up, sorta, but I want to hear what the defense is thinking.  And my guess, is they weren't really in a very talkative mood when BB left them to dry at the 28 yard line.

[top photo from The Sports Hernia]

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written by PatsHater, November 16, 2009

How funny that a member of the Pat's would take down a camera guy. I thought they loved cameras

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written by Nattyb, November 16, 2009

Man I love that Bill is on the hot seat right now. Serves him right.

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written by nate k , November 16, 2009

I personally liked the call. hehehe

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written by WhoDey, November 16, 2009

I don't like the call, but BB is notorious for thinking his team can walk on water. What if he would have made it? Almost did. Then everyone would talk about how you can take those types of chances when you have a team like the Pats. Haters, all of ya.

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Not So fast, Bob!
written by Indytim, November 16, 2009

Hey, not ALL us Colts fans are "cocky", just like not all Pats fans think BB is their "God". As a Colts fan myself, I KNOW first-hand that 9-0 doesn't guarantee you ANYTHING. It might put us on the inside track to the division, and home-field advantage, but looking around downtown Indy this morning, I don't see a 2009-2010 Superbowl trophy anywhere, nor do I see a shiny new banner hanging from the rafters of Lucas Oil Stadium.

I agree with you - The Pats should have punted. When I saw they were going for it, I cheered. Not because it was a 'good' decision by the 'genius', but because it was a TERRIBLE decision.

Of course, you have to admit - had they MADE the play, everyone would be spouting about what a 'genius' BB is, how God-like Brady is, etc, etc.

But they didn't. Instead, the Pats get to add another digit to their Loss column - which is perfectly fine by me. A win is a win. Patriots fans don't mind that many of their previous seasons were tainted by cheating (a win is a win! Superbowl champs, spycams or not!), so I sure as heck don't mind that we Colts get a win because of BB's bad call.

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written by spiderman, November 22, 2009

I think belichick ought to fire his bodybuard for shoving that poor camera guy to the ground. He ought to be ashamed of himself for doing that. Johnny

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written by spiderman, November 22, 2009

I also want to add belichick had no right to give the colts kicker the cold shoulder. Belichick should learn to respect other people of the other team. spiderman

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