Broncos vs Colts December 15th

The first team is the team holding the saddle going into the game

https://www.nflmockdraftdatabase.com/user-mock-drafts/2024/user-mock-2366596

Did a draft using the six ungulates

that is all, carry on.

Hello all,

Its the OG Golden Saddle spreadsheet guy. It's been quite some time since the Golden Saddle has been properly tracked (thanks to /u/plexust for an interim update), life changed a bit and I was not following football much at all for a few years. But I've remember about the ungulates and the Golden Saddle, and gotten back around to updating the sidebar sheet to be up to date with the current saddle holder.

Some noteable updates over the last two seasons:

2022 update - The Colts held the Saddle coming into the '22 season, taking it from the Bills in '21 and holding it through the remainder of that season. After defending it against the Texans week 1 and Broncos week 4, they ultimately lost it to the Chargers in week 16, who ran a gauntlet of ungulate matchups, defending it the following week against the Rams, then losing it the week after to the Broncos in week 18.

2023 update - The Broncos entered '23 with the Saddle, holding it for two weeks before handing it over to the Dolphins, who only held it for a week before Buffalo claimed the Saddle, where it is held currently. The next belt matchup will take place in Week 10 in Denver, where the hot and cold bills will face an improving Denver team.

I thought ungulate were hoofed quadruped mammals

Has this happened before? I couldn't find any easily

The last team to do so was the Broncos in Super Bowl 50. Before that, the Colts won in Super Bowl XLI. The Rams won in 2000 in Super Bowl XXXIV, just a year after the Broncos went back-to-back in Super Bowls XXXII & XXXIII. There was a long Ungulate drought before this, going back to when the Dolphins went back-to-back in 1970s with victories in Super Bowls VII & VIII. And the first Super Bowl won by an Ungulate Team was the 1970–71 Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl V.

The Bills appeared in four-straight Super Bowls in the early 90s (Super Bowls XXV, XXVI, XXVII, & XXVIII), but were defeated in each appearance. The Chargers have appeared in one Super Bowl, Super Bowl XXIX in 1994, which they also lost. The Broncos have lost five Super Bowls, both the Rams and the Dolphins have lost three Super Bowls a piece, and the Colts have lost two. The Texans have never made a Super Bowl appearance.

Prior to the Super Bowl, the Cleveland/Los Angeles Rams (1945, 1951) and the Baltimore Colts (1958, 1959) both won NFL Championship Games.

Hello Ungulates!

This subreddit's sidebar contains a spreadsheet with the Golden Saddle, which hasn't been updated since 2017 and it says that the next Saddle Battle is the 2017 Week 17 matchup between the Bills and Dolphins.

The Bills would go on to win that game in Miami 22-16, keeping the Saddle through the 2017 postseason, where they lost in the wildcard round to the Jaguars.

The Bills entered 2018 holding the saddle, until losing it to the Chargers in week 2, 31-20. The Chargers' glory would be short lived, as they immediately coughed it up in week 3 to the Rams in the Battle of L.A. in a 35-23 loss. The Rams would successfully fend off the Broncos in week 6, 23-20, and they went on to keep the Saddle for the rest of the season and the whole of 2019 due to a lack of scheduled games between them and their ungulate brethren.

The Rams would go on to lose the Saddle in week 3 of 2020 to the Bills in a 35-32 heartbreak, capping a 37-game possession — the longest continuous period of Golden Saddle possession since the 1983-86 Rams held it for 55 games. The Bills would keep the saddle through the remainder of the 2020 season, besting the Broncos and Dolphins in the regular season, and defeating the Colts in the wildcard round.

The ascendant Bills would keep the saddle through mid season in 2021 as well, defeating the Dolphins (week 2) and Texans (week 4), before losing it to the Colts in week 11 in a lopsided affair. After defeating the Texans in week 13, 31-0, the Colts are guaranteed to take the Golden Saddle all the way to the door of the postseason.

Updated Golden Saddle tracker

Obviously this one is the birds (hawks) but what’s our move after that? Take out another bird?

WHO GOES AND WHO STAYS?? YOU DECIDE!!

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