INDIANAPOLIS — Getting all the way to the Super Bowl, only to come away with nothing by game's end, is probably the most deflating feeling in the National Football League.
In 2009, the Indianapolis Colts had yet another terrific regular season and coasted through two AFC playoff games (with the exception of the AFC Championship Game, in which they trailed at halftime against the New York Jets), but would ultimately fall to the New Orleans Saints, 31-17, in Super Bowl XLIV.
The morning after that big game, Clyde Christensen, then the Colts' assistant head coach and offensive coordinator, received a text message.