It's official: Suck for Luck is on in Indianapolis. The Colts just benched their starting QB, the immortal Curtis Painter of Purdue Boilermakers fame, for the great Dan Orlovsky, who hasn't started a game since the 2008 season. For those of you who don't remember Orlovsky's 0-7 performance for the 0-16 Detroit Lions in the only winless 16 game season in NFL history, it wasn't pretty. This is probably the most pertinent highlight (lowlight?) of Orlovsky's from that fateful season (sorry about the poor video quality):
Orlovsky very well could play better than Painter has, but throwing the QB who once accidentally ran out of the back of his own end zone into the fire against the 20 point favorite New England Patriots is almost guaranteed to blow up spectacularly. I know the Pats defense isn't particularly good, but the Colts have a chance to be historically bad this year. And it seems to me that the Colts are actively pursuing that history by making Orlovsky the centerpiece of their offense. We'll see what happens, but Orlovsky could be the only QB in history to play for two 0-16 teams. Let's see if he builds his legacy.
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