Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis.
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30 Facts About Indianapolis Colts
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The Indianapolis Colts compete in the National Football League as a member club of the league's American Football Conference South division.
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The Baltimore Indianapolis Colts were one of the three former AAFC powerhouse teams to merge with the NFL at that time, the others being the San Francisco 49ers and the Cleveland Browns.
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The NFL considers the Texans and Indianapolis Colts to be separate teams, although many of the earlier teams shared the same colors of blue and white.
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The Indianapolis Colts faced the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL Championship Game, which is considered to be among the greatest contests in professional football history.
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In 1968 the Indianapolis Colts returned with the continued leadership of Unitas and Shula and went on to win the Indianapolis Colts' third NFL Championship and made an appearance in Super Bowl III.
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Under the new ownership, the Indianapolis Colts did not reach the postseason for three consecutive seasons after 1971, and after the 1972 season, starting quarterback and legend Johnny Unitas was traded to the San Diego Chargers.
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In 1981, the Indianapolis Colts defense allowed an NFL-record 533 points, set an all-time record for fewest sacks, and set a modern record for fewest punt returns .
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Indianapolis Colts offered loans as well as the Hoosier Dome and a training complex.
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The move to Indianapolis did not change the recent fortune of the Colts, with the team appearing in the postseason only once in the first 11 seasons in Indianapolis.
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Under Tobin, the Indianapolis Colts drafted running back Marshall Faulk with the second overall pick in the 1994 and acquired quarterback Jim Harbaugh as well.
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The Indianapolis Colts began to improve towards the end of the 1998 season and showed continued growth in 1999.
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Indianapolis Colts drafted Edgerrin James in 1999 and continued to improve their roster heading into the upcoming season.
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Indianapolis Colts lost to the eventual AFC champion Tennessee Titans in the divisional playoffs.
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The Indianapolis Colts lost to the New England Patriots and Tom Brady in the 2003 AFC Championship Game and in the 2004 divisional playoffs, thereby beginning a rivalry between the two teams, and between Manning and Brady.
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Indianapolis Colts entered the 2006 season with a veteran quarterback, receivers, and defenders, and chose running back Joseph Addai in the 2006 draft.
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The Indianapolis Colts won their first two playoff games against the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens to return to the AFC Championship Game for the first time since the 2003 playoffs, where they faced their rivals, the New England Patriots.
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The Indianapolis Colts began to release some higher paid and oft-injured veteran players, including Joseph Addai, Dallas Clark, and Gary Brackett.
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The Indianapolis Colts used their number one overall draft pick in 2012 to draft Stanford Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck and drafted his teammate Coby Fleener in the second round.
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Two weeks into the 2013 season, the Indianapolis Colts traded their first-round selection in the 2014 NFL Draft to the Cleveland Browns for running back Trent Richardson.
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Indianapolis Colts cited an unfulfilling cycle of injury and rehab as his primary reason for leaving football.
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Much of the team's history, the Indianapolis Colts wore blue socks, accenting them with two or three white stripes for much of their history in Baltimore and during the 2004 and 2005 seasons.
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The Indianapolis Colts continued to wear white pants with their white jerseys throughout this period, and in 1987, the gray pants were retired.
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Indianapolis Colts wore blue pants with their white jerseys for the first three games of the 1995 season, but then returned to white pants with both the blue and white jerseys.
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In 2002, the Indianapolis Colts made a minor striping pattern change on their jerseys, having the stripes only on top of the shoulders then stop completely.
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In 2017, the Indianapolis Colts brought back the blue pants but paired them with the blue jerseys as part of the NFL Color Rush program.
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The Indianapolis Colts won the next three matches, notching two regular-season victories and a win in the 2006 AFC Championship game on the way to their win in Super Bowl XLI.
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The Indianapolis Colts then repeated the feat by posting an identical record and routing the Giants in the 1959 final.
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