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The 1991 Indianapolis Colts season was the 39th season for the team in the National Football League and eighth in Indianapolis. The team was looking to improve on the 7–9 record they had recorded in 1990. Instead, the Colts put together a campaign that ranked as one of the worst in NFL history.〔http://www.complex.com/sports/2013/09/worst-nfl-teams-all-time/1991-indianapolis-colts〕 The Colts were victorious only once in the regular season, finishing last in the AFC East, and their fifteen losses tied an NFL record set by the 1980 New Orleans Saints. The Colts were the 4th team in as many seasons to finish with a single victory, as the 1989 Dallas Cowboys and 1990 New England Patriots each duplicated that mark. However, the 1991 Colts had a much weaker schedule to play than either the 1990 Patriots or 1989 Cowboys, playing eleven games against teams with non-winning records,〔(1991 Indianapolis Colts against opponent with non-winning record )〕 as against only five for the 1990 Patriots and four for the 1989 Cowboys.〔(1989 Dallas Cowboys against opponent with non-winning record )〕 Their only victory came against their division rivals, the New York Jets, in Week 11 at Giants Stadium (the Colts went 0–8 at home in the Hoosier Dome). As perhaps a further mark of futility in the lost season, the team's margin of victory against the Jets was a single point. Head coach Ron Meyer, who had led the Colts since 1986, was fired after the Colts lost their fifth straight game. He was replaced by his defensive coordinator, Rick Venturi, who finished out the season and led the team to its only victory. The Colts scored the fewest points up to that point (143) of any team in NFL history in a sixteen-game schedule.〔The league switched from a 14- to a 16-game schedule in 1978. The team never scored more than 28 points in any game (doing so in their lone victory), scored less than ten points eleven times, were shut out twice, and failed to score at least one touchdown in nine of their sixteen games.〕〔The 1991 Colts’ total is now second-lowest of all-time, behind the 140 points the Seattle Seahawks put up in 1992.〕 Statistics site ''Football Outsiders'' said of the Colts 1991 season:〔(Football Outsiders: 1991 DVOA Ratings and Commentary )〕 "It's the flipside of (Bowl champion ) Washington; the Colts were the worst offense and defense in the league in the second half of close games, and the worst offense in the league in the first quarter. Since the Colts finished with the worst record in the NFL, they won the right to draft Steve Emtman, a defensive lineman from Washington whose career was derailed by injuries. It would take them until 1995 to reach the playoffs again, and the Colts did not become consistently successful until Peyton Manning joined the team near the end of the 1990s. ==Offseason== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1991 Indianapolis Colts season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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