Give them credit: The Indianapolis Colts are one win from history.
Nine times this season they’ve taken a lead into halftime, a remarkable feat considering how bad this football team is. And seven times they’ve blown it, lost that lead and lost the ballgame.
That’s one blown lead away from tying the NFL record.
In the interest of complete accuracy, the crumbling usually arrives in the final quarter. Five times this year the Colts lost a fourth-quarter lead.
“A self-fulfilling prophecy,” coach Chuck Pagano called it earlier in the year.
He’s right.