WOW, WAS ’09 FINE! - Ingles

The NFL was fine in 2009!

Passing records broken…historic rushing milestones reached… the Colts and Saints flirting with perfection…new teams making the playoffs… the Chargers streaking to the finish with 11 consecutive wins…CHRIS JOHNSON putting on a weekly show… impact rookies… and it all came down to Week 17 with 17 teams still in Super Bowl XLIV contention!

“Any time you get a win in this league, it’s big,” says Indianapolis Colts head coach JIM CALDWELL, whose club opened the season with a 14-game winning streak.

Wins came in bunches for the Colts and New Orleans Saints. They became the first pair of teams to go 13-0 in the same season, part of an NFL-record 23 consecutive regular-season wins for Indianapolis and a franchise-best 13-game winning streak for New Orleans.

Both teams were among the five new division winners in 2009 and their first losses came at the hands of two of the six new playoff participants, the New York Jets (Indianapolis) and Dallas Cowboys (New Orleans).

“It’s so funny how things can change in a week in this league,” says THOMAS JONES of the Jets.

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