To 16-0 or not to 16-0?

Quick....who won the Super Bowl after the 2006 season? Ok, now, what teams have had undefeated regular seasons in the modern era?

I bet, unless you're a football dork like me or Dave, it took you a minute, some thinking, maybe even a quick trip over to NFL.com or Wikipedia to answer the first question.

But for the second question I bet you were able to spit out "The '72 Dolphins and the '07 Patriots" rather quickly. Which is exactly why this year's Colts and Saints should be trying to go for the perfect season. Completing this season 16-0 will put them in the history books and people's memory forever. Super Bowl winners, quite honestly, get lost in the shuffle. That is because there is a Super Bowl winner every year. I mean, for crying out loud, the Tampa Bay Bucs have won a Super Bowl in the last ten years.

With perfect seasons however, there have only been two in the modern era. (There were a few in the "pre-modern" era of professional football, but they all either lost in the championship game or were part of the AAFC, whose records are not included in NFL records because not all of the teams migrated to the NFL. How's that for a history lesson?)

Also, they have to go 16-0 to be remembered. The 1998 Minnesota Vikings went 15-1 and no one cares.

Besides, going 16-0 could actually help them in the playoffs. The year the Patriots went 18-1 they played the Giants in the regular season finale. Both teams were locked into their seeds for the playoffs. (The Pats had the top seed in the AFC, obviously, and the Giants were the 5 seed in the NFC.) Both teams played that last game like it meant something and guess what, they met a month later in the Super Bowl.

So, I think the Saints and Colts should play for the perfect seasons. Done and done.

Oh, and by the way, the winners of the 2006 Super Bowl?....The Indianapolis Colts.