Last Sunday during the CBS pregame show, the
handsomely coiffed Charley Casserly
informed us that NFL commissioner
Roger Goodell was turning his attention away from dogfighting and spying to focus on a much more sinister crime: cheerleaders. Yep,
no more warming up in front of the visiting teams' locker room because, well, grown men can't control themselves, apparently. Surprising, I know.
Count the Colts as one of the teams in favor of the rules change. During their Week 2 game in Tennessee,
some of the players complained of the very distraction Casserly described.
"...it was like something from a movie," said Indianapolis Colts cornerback Marlin Jackson. "You come into the locker room and they're lined up stretching. I was like, 'What's going on here?' It's like something from 'The Longest Yard.' They're in here stretching. We're trying to get warmed up. I think that's a good rule to have."
"The Longest Yard"? Really? Is Jackson saying that the
Titans' cheerleaders looked like Tracy Morgan, or is he just confusing his movies?
Whatever, SBM and Colts cornerback
Kelvin Hayden said
he's not affected:"You might (do a double-take) but you're more focused on the task at hand." And the married guys are even
less affected: "I don't know anything about it. If I did, I probably wouldn't care to comment on it," said Colts linebacker
Rob Morris, with a laugh. "I didn't even know there were cheerleaders in the NFL." At least cheerleaders that resembled Tracy Morgan, anyway.
There's never a good time to have half of your defensive backfield hurt, but having it happen immediately before facing the Houston Texans' powerful passing attack is close to the worst possible situation during the regular season. But that is exactly what's happening in Indianapolis. 
