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Maybe They Shouldn't Have Torn Down The RCA Dome Just Yet
Now, I would never accuse a government official of being full of shit, but I'm having a hard time believing that Indianapolis will actually follow through with threats to close Lucas Oil Stadium....
The Marvin Harrison Era May Be Over In Indy
Marvin Harrison has played 13 seasons in the NFL, all with the Indianapolis Colts, and nearly all with Peyton Manning throwing the ball to him—but if reports are true, that's all over with now....
Tony Dungy: Bad For Gays? Good For Blacks? Great For Everybody? Let's Go To The Tape...
The retirement of Tony Dungy has brought forth some divided opinions from two different sets of minorities about the coach's legacy as a human being....
Tony Dungy Bids Adieu
Jay Glazer sobers up from his New Year's party and pounces on the Tony Dungy retirement scoop. Presser at 5 p.m. today. [Fox Sports]...
The End Of The Tony Dungy Era In Indy?
PFT has the chances of him retiring this year at 70%. [Pro Football Talk]...
Peyton Manning: Still A Choker?
For the sixth time in nine playoff appearances, Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts have been bounced from the playoffs in the first round....
Your NFL MVP: Laser Rocket Arm
Yep, Peyton Manning is your NFL MVP, joining Brett Favre as the only three-time winners. Party tonight at Lil' Ronnie's! [NBC Sports]...
Manning Heroically Leads Colts Over Sucky Team, Into Playoffs
With their big 31-24 victory over the Jaguars last night, the Colts are back in the playoffs with their sixth consecutive 11-win season, meaning that this kid can invite friends into his room again....
Well This Seems Rather Harsh
The "greater than" meme; so overworked and cliched that Combudsman Iracane banned it from this site more than a month ago. But over at ESPN, it's cutting edge. The Leader decided to use it in a hard-hitting feature about how Eli Manning has surpassed his brother as the more highly-regarded quarterba...
It's Very Hard To Be A Texans Fan Right Now
The good thing about being a quarterback in Houston is that there is virtually nothing you can do that will be bad enough to equal the worst collapse your fans have ever seen. That would have been in the 1993 playoffs, when the Bills came back from 32 points down in the second half to beat the Houst...
Sunday Night Football: Bears-Colts
It's the second to last game of the first week of the season, of which there will be only two more this decade. It all takes place in venerable Lucas Oil Stadium. How effective will the Bears passing game be? Will we find out what a bursa sac is? How would John Madden solve the dispute between Russi...
NFL Season Previews: Indianapolis Colts
The NFL season has officially started, so it's time to fucking finish the impassioned season previews from various writers, bloggers, diehard fans, cooks, TV personalities, and numerous other walks of life whom consider football the only sport worth watching. Clearly, these previews will be running ...
Pro Football Hall of Fame Game Live Blog
All right, football zealots. Finally, a televised NFL game (for lack of a better word). It's the Indianapolis Colts and the Washington Redskins. John Madden has been dipped in bronze gravy for this joyous occasion, and Al Michaels will be sitting on his knee. Before you follow along after the J-M-P,...
Colts Fans Scalping Tickets to Free Tour of New Lucas-Oil Stadium
Hundreds of Indianapolis Colts fans lined up for free tickets to walk through the new Colts stadium. In a month. Now you can see why Indianapolis's advertising slogan is, "Like Detroit without the culture." Tickets to tour the stadium are going for as much as $75 online now. Some Colts fans were und...
Marvin Harrison Case Still Not Anywhere Close To Being Solved
And in other, non-champagne-spraying troubled wide receiver news......
Making Teenage Faces
Colts Cheerleaders get their hair did. [Don Chavez]...
Someone Not Named Danica Wins Indy 500
Scott Dixon, seen here winning an unrelated reace, is your 2008 Indianapolis 500 winner. This makes it 39 years that the prestigious Brickyard race hasn't been won by either a woman or an Andretti. The New Zealander won his first 500 the year after he lost the IRL championship on the last lap of the...
Ryan Leaf Cleans Out The Attic Of Tearful Regret
Was it really 10 years ago that the Indianapolis Colts made the fateful decision to draft Peyton Manning over Ryan Leaf in the NFL draft? To mark the occasion, Leaf is showing off his No. 16 Colts jersey — yep, one such exists — which he found while rummaging through some personal belongings recentl...
Tony Dungy Has A Short Memory
Indianapolis Colts coach Tony Dungy spoke with kids at a high school in Tampa on Thursday and apparently he was in a mood to foment him some controversy. And not in the usual "condemning o' the gays" way. Nope. He took a shot at the rival New England Patriots being embroiled in MattWalshGate. Nothin...
Has Marvin Harrison's Shady Past (And Present) Finally Caught Up To Him?
The muddled circumstances surrounding Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison's invovement in a shooting last week are slowly coming together. The facts: it was Harrison's gun that was used; six casings from his gun were found; Harrison was interviewed and had a fistfight with a man; some people got sho...