Monday Night Football: LeGarrette Blount Carries Bucs Past Colts, 24-17

The video of Foster injuring his ankle is quite gruesome, and it wasn’t a surprise to see so several of his teammates appear to fight back tears while he was being tended to on the field. But as Foster was being carted off the field, he thumped his chest and yelled words of encouragement to his teammates, which you can see in the video below:

Several hours after the game, Foster once again sent a positive message, this time to his thousands of followers on Twitter, many of whom had sent tweets of support:

The Colts have shown signs of life in Monday’s game, but this is clearly something of a lost year. Even if Foster can stage a miraculous return by the end of the season, the odds of the Colts still being in playoff contention are slim to none.

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Gonzalez was drafted in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft. Since then, he’s been a massive disappointment and hasn’t been able to stay healthy, playing just 4 games since playing all 16 games in 2008. Gonzalez has played one game this season, but has yet to notch anything on the stat sheet.

Hank Williams, Jr. will not be inquiring about your readiness for Monday Night Football tonight after ESPN decided to pull the country music star’s traditional opening sequence, the result of controversial comments Williams made this morning about Pres. Barack Obama.

Williams, a Republican who helped campaign for Bush-Cheney in 2000 and McCain-Palin in 2008, called the golf game “one of the biggest political mistakes ever.” When asked to elaborate, Williams said, “That turned a lot of people off. You know, watching, you know, it just didn’t go over.” He then stated, “It would be like Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu, OK?,” adding that Obama and Biden are “the enemy.”

That Painter has even hung around long enough to become the de facto starting quarterback is a bit of an ongoing frustration for the folks at Stampede Blue. But that doesn’t mean they are rooting for him to fail in some kind of “I told you so” schadenfreude:

In case that doesn’t make it clear, Stampede Blue is not very happy with some of Bill Polian. Love for a team can make you do some funny things, though.