I have a hard time counting the legitimacy of the 1965 championship. Chandler's game tying FG that put the game into OT was clearly wide right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IF5dh456Kw

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The 2 biggest historical robberies of Colts teams occurred in 1965 and 1967.


The 1965 Colts should have had a rematch with the Cleveland Browns, who had beaten the Colts in the previous season's world championship game. As a result of that really bad call on Don Chandler's game-tying field goal which sent their playoff game with the Colts into overtime, the NFL decided that they needed to increase the height of the goal-posts ...... but that was too late for the 1965 Colts. And to top it off, the Colts were playing with a running back at quarterback (Tom Matte) because both of their QB's were injured ...... how cool would it have been to have a team playing in the world championship game with a running back at quarterback ???



The 1967 Colts were the victim of Pete Rozelle's idiocy. There were 16 teams in the NFL at the time, and 4 of them made the playoffs. The Colts were UNDEFEATED heading into the final week of the season. They lost to the Rams in the final game of the regular season, and were left sitting home with an 11-1-2 record ...... ONE LOSS, and they didn't make the playoffs !!! If Rozelle had not been such a dipshit, he would have kept the NFL with 2 divisions (East and West), and the 4 teams that would have made the playoffs would have been the 2 division winners and the next 2 teams with the best record ...... so, it would have been either 2 teams from each division making the playoffs, or 1 team from one division and 3 teams from the other division had the 3rd-place team from one division had a better record than the 2nd-place team from the other division.

But because Rozelle had such a moronic playoff format in which there were 4 divisions in a 16-team league, the 1967 Colts remain the only team in the history of professional football to not make the post-season with only 1 loss. ) :mad:

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