INDIANAPOLIS -- When the Patriots have the ball, the Colts fans are roaring on every play. It is, without question, the loudest, most-adverse conditions the Patriots have faced this season.

I don't know what the decibel level is, but I've spent some time on the flight deck of aircraft carriers, and it seems the crowd noise this afternoon ranks right up there with the sound when (in my day) an F-4 was catapulted off the deck.