Indianapolis councilman pushing resolution for refund because of Colts loss

Indianapolis must be Heaven on earth--that is if their biggest worry is a 14-1 football team three years removed from a Super Bowl championship.

The Indianapolis Star explains why:

A longtime community leader is urging the City-County Council to demand the Indianapolis Colts repay fans who bought tickets to Sunday's game, a loss that wrecked the team's chance at a perfect season.

Beurt SerVaas, who served on the council for 41 years -- many of them as president, drafted the resolution Monday after a game he called "an insult to the people of Indianapolis." The Colts were leading the New York Jets by five points when coach Jim Caldwell took quarterback Peyton Manning and other key starters out of the game to ensure their health for the playoffs. The Colts lost 29-15, ending a record 23-game regular season winning streak.

"To have all these people come down on a snowy night and have to pay (hundreds) for a ticket they want to see the Colts work," said SerVaas, who watched the game from home. "It really wasn't a football game. It was a spectacle and not a very nice spectacle."

SerVaas said the resolution would be a way for the council to send a signal to the team that councilors, as well as Indianapolis residents, are disappointed in the way the game was handled.

Perhaps this civil servant would be happier if the Colts moved back to Baltimore.

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