spaceghost, lets break down the scoring:
Patriots 7-0: Logan Mankins fumble recovery in the endzone after Maroney fumble
Colts 3-7: Vinatieri 42 yarder
Patriots 14-3: Corey Dillon 7 yards
Patriots 21-3: Peyton Manning interception returned for TD by Asante Samuel
Colts 6-21: Vinatieri good from 26
Colts 13-21: 1 yard run by Peyton Manning...tell me that couldn't have been done by Sorgi (spell his name right)
Colts 21-21: Dan Klecko 1 yd reception + Marvin Harrison 2 pt conversion. This I'll give to Manning, but on the conditional that you recognize that there's a good 5 or 6 QB's in the NFL that could do this as well.
Patriots 28-21: Jabar Gaffney 6 yd reception on a pretty bad pass by Tom Brady
Colts 28-28: Jeff Saturday fumble recovery in the end zone
Patriots 31-28: Gostkowski 28 yds
Colts 31-31: Vinatieri 36 yds
Patriots 34-31: Gostkowski 43 yds
Colts 38-34: Joseph Addai 3 yd run
Brady: 21/34, 232, 1TD, 1INT
Manning, 27/47, 349, 1TD, 1INT
Not a particularly stunning game for either quarterback. I would say that Peyton was able to move the ball down the field on a few big catches by Clark, a few broken tackles from Wayne, because WHEN IT COUNTED MOST, the Colts D held up and the Pats D didn't.