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sorry if anyone doesnt like this thread sorry,but i just thought i should actually put something on the board that

makes it look like a "colts fan forum" i have been a colt fan since i started watching football,so for every fan

that cares about the "colts" then who is going to be starting and what our record"might" be, based on

assumptions and panic.....give me some love :number1:

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thats what im talkin about!!!!!we will own this division....regardless of how we look in the preseason......even if texans did win the division this year

they have 10 more to win till they can call themselves the "real kings"of the afc south......and i heard ya indy_nick....my hat is always on and jersey every sunday

we got this yall....no more panic for me.....just hope... :rantoff:

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I was there for Jack Trudeau, I will be there for Curtis Painter if it came to that.

Those were the good old days. Never can forget all of those 6-3 and 9-7 barn burners with the Browns and Jets. I can remember us beating the Jets 6-0 one time. I think we also beat the patriots 6-0 once as well.

We were just racing up and down the field back in the day!

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I've been a Colts fan since Clarence Verdin use to return punts 20 yards....the wrong way.

Don't be dissing on my boy CNN!!!! ;)

Loved Verdin!!

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I get the feeling many of the people on here are more Manning fans than they are Colts fans. After Manning retires, they probably won't follow the team as closely anymore. As for myself, I am a Colts fan. If Manning leaves the Colts and signs with some other team for whatever reason, I wish him all the best, but hope we win every time we play him. Manning has done a lot for Indy and the Colts franchise, but no player is ever bigger than the franchise. Once Peyton leaves, I will still be cheering on the Colts whether they lose nearly every game or win nearly every game.

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amen superman i cant say that ive been watching the colt as long as some of these guys in here but regardless,the funny thing about it is that Dallas Clark is actually my fav player on the colts,dont get me wrong i love me some p money

but i think im one of the few that think the colts wont be that bad of a team without manning,maybe not at first but the colts are very good at shifting gears later in the season.I just dont think irsay or the polians would let this franchise

drop to anything less than pretty good....but like i said....regardless of whether they do or dont.....my bloods always gunna be blue!

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I get the feeling many of the people on here are more Manning fans than they are Colts fans. After Manning retires, they probably won't follow the team as closely anymore. As for myself, I am a Colts fan. If Manning leaves the Colts and signs with some other team for whatever reason, I wish him all the best, but hope we win every time we play him. Manning has done a lot for Indy and the Colts franchise, but no player is ever bigger than the franchise. Once Peyton leaves, I will still be cheering on the Colts whether they lose nearly every game or win nearly every game.

I thought that for a while too, but I am not so sure now. I fell in love with the Colts when I was 9 years old and they had just moved here. Sure when Peyton hangs up his cleats some fans will fall off because that's what happens to every sports team when their glory days are over and they are rebuilding, but I think most of the fans will stick. Something as big as having Peyton Manning as our quarterback is a bit like a team moving into our state. They are comparable. In reality, Peyton probably kept the team from moving to a different city and being named something else.

We will all have our own unique history with the Colts and many of us will feel like we are the greatest Colts fans alive no matter how that history looks to someone else. I have never missed a game and I don’t plan on ever missing a game; even if we go 1-15 for ten straight years. Once it gets in a person’s blood, I think it doesn’t really matter how it got there. It’s a fever that lasts a lifetime. It has mine anyway.

There is another level a Colts fan gets to (at least it feels that way to me) and that's when he or she feels that they have nothing to prove to anyone about how loyal of a fan they are. It happened to me when we won the Super Bowl. I was out at a bar and this drunk guy was getting red with everyone telling us all how he was the greatest Colts fan and how everyone else was just jumping on the wagon. I told him that we had come a long way since the Mike Pagel days and tipped my glass to him. He asked, “Who!” I realized then that most people are really just running their mouths to get attention and sympathy over being a Colts fan through the really hard years. What I actually felt, they wanted and even needed more than me. I had everything I needed and I didn’t need to lie to anyone or myself to prove it.

The greatest feeling in the world is when you walk into a place and see someone you know from a very long time ago. For example, a few years back I walked into the Casino Aztar and the bar tender, who I hadn’t seen in probably 20 years (since high school) yelled out to everyone, “This is the biggest Colts fan ever, right here! He was a Colts fan long before it was cool to be a Colts fan!” He gave me a beer and told me it was on the house.

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I thought that for a while too, but I am not so sure now. I fell in love with the Colts when I was 9 years old and they had just moved here. Sure when Peyton hangs up his cleats some fans will fall off because that's what happens to every sports team when their glory days are over and they are rebuilding, but I think most of the fans will stick. Something as big as having Peyton Manning as our quarterback is a bit like a team moving into our state. They are comparable. In reality, Peyton probably kept the team from moving to a different city and being named something else.

We will all have our own unique history with the Colts and many of us will feel like we are the greatest Colts fans alive no matter how that history looks to someone else. I have never missed a game and I don’t plan on ever missing a game; even if we go 1-15 for ten straight years. Once it gets in a person’s blood, I think it doesn’t really matter how it got there. It’s a fever that lasts a lifetime. It has mine anyway.

There is another level a Colts fan gets to (at least it feels that way to me) and that's when he or she feels that they have nothing to prove to anyone about how loyal of a fan they are. It happened to me when we won the Super Bowl. I was out at a bar and this drunk guy was getting red with everyone telling us all how he was the greatest Colts fan and how everyone else was just jumping on the wagon. I told him that we had come a long way since the Mike Pagel days and tipped my glass to him. He asked, “Who!” I realized then that most people are really just running their mouths to get attention and sympathy over being a Colts fan through the really hard years. What I actually felt, they wanted and even needed more than me. I had everything I needed and I didn’t need to lie to anyone or myself to prove it.

The greatest feeling in the world is when you walk into a place and see someone you know from a very long time ago. For example, a few years back I walked into the Casino Aztar and the bar tender, who I hadn’t seen in probably 20 years (since high school) yelled out to everyone, “This is the biggest Colts fan ever, right here! He was a Colts fan long before it was cool to be a Colts fan!” He gave me a beer and told me it was on the house.

That's a cool story! I admit, I am a modern Colts fan. I've only been following the team since around 2003 and following them closely since 2005. I do know some of the old school guys like John Mackey, Unitas, Marchetti, etc. but I don't know Trudeau, I don't know Verdin, I don't know a lot of those guys.

I agree with you when you say it's in your blood. I used to be a huge hockey fan; once the lockout hit the NHL, I stopped caring about it. I still like the NHL, but no where near as much as I liked it before. When the NFL lockout hit, I was kind of expecting myself to not be as big a fan as I was before, but I still am. I'm still a big football fan, even if it's a greedy business.

I don't get the point of when people argue about who the bigger fan is. Not only does it not matter, it's impossible to prove. It's similar to the Peyton-Brady "debates". It doesn't matter who is a "bigger" fan, the point is we are all fans cheering for the same team! As Bob Sanders once said, "That's how we do it man, Colts ball, all day" :coltshorse:

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I get the feeling many of the people on here are more Manning fans than they are Colts fans. After Manning retires, they probably won't follow the team as closely anymore.

I certainly hope that don't happen. I have been a Colts fan since they moved to Indy. QB's like Mike Pagel, Art Schlichter, Mark Herman, Gary Hogeboom, and Jack Trudeau, I stuck with them all, thru thick and thin (alot more thin). I will admit that it does kind of annoy me that the older fans that became fans after Manning got here and never supported the team before. They have been our team for 27 yrs. now, people should have been fans that entire time.

With that said, Im happy that they support the team now and I truely hope they just don't quit if the team has to go thru some rough yrs. once Manning leaves. Part of being a fan is sticking with your team even if their terrible. I don't care who is on the team or how bad the team may be in the future, I will still support the Colts as long as im around.

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I certainly hope that don't happen. I have been a Colts fan since they moved to Indy. QB's like Mike Pagel, Art Schlichter, Mark Herman, Gary Hogeboom, and Jack Trudeau, I stuck with them all, thru thick and thin (alot more thin). I will admit that it does kind of annoy me that the older fans that became fans after Manning got here and never supported the team before. They have been our team for 27 yrs. now, people should have been fans that entire time.

With that said, Im happy that they support the team now and I truely hope they just don't quit if the team has to go thru some rough yrs. once Manning leaves. Part of being a fan is sticking with your team even if their terrible. I don't care who is on the team or how bad the team may be in the future, I will still support the Colts as long as im around.

Amen! I have been a Colt's fan for closing in on 40 years...through thick, thin and inbetween!

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I get the feeling many of the people on here are more Manning fans than they are Colts fans. After Manning retires, they probably won't follow the team as closely anymore. As for myself, I am a Colts fan. If Manning leaves the Colts and signs with some other team for whatever reason, I wish him all the best, but hope we win every time we play him. Manning has done a lot for Indy and the Colts franchise, but no player is ever bigger than the franchise. Once Peyton leaves, I will still be cheering on the Colts whether they lose nearly every game or win nearly every game.

I feel basically the same way. Someone else said that they think that most colts fans will remain colts fans once manning retires, and we take a step back. If by remaining a fan, you mean "I'll keep an eye on the colts, but I may have something better to do that day", then yes, the "majority" of fans will remain. They'll be waiting in the wings until the colts start doing good, then they'll proclaim, "I'VE ALWAYS BEEN A HUGE FAN!" Oh god.

I'm not saying I'm a better fan than anyone else, but I've followed them for probably more years than most of you have been alive. Just enjoy what you (we) have right now. It's a once in a lifetime thing.

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As long as our defense plays in attack mode every play, we'll be fine. In 08 against the Brown we were basically without Peyton. The offense couldn't get anything going. The Defense stepped up and won us that game. They honestly don't get enough credit for some of the wins around here.

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I am a Stockley, James, Faulk, Manning, Addai, Wayne, Collie, Clark, Mathis, Freeney, Brackett, BETHEA, Powers, Angerer, Mcafee fan

you can added nevis to that mix

when he retires, i feel like a drug addict, going thru withdrawls,

im sure i can find others to keep watching with this team,

but i am also a fan of the falcons, they have been the only other team pre season games ive watched

I bleed blue and do not accept losing period, especially for the next 5 years,

after that, ill bleed blue with every loss

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That's a cool story! I admit, I am a modern Colts fan. I've only been following the team since around 2003 and following them closely since 2005. I do know some of the old school guys like John Mackey, Unitas, Marchetti, etc. but I don't know Trudeau, I don't know Verdin, I don't know a lot of those guys.

I agree with you when you say it's in your blood. I used to be a huge hockey fan; once the lockout hit the NHL, I stopped caring about it. I still like the NHL, but no where near as much as I liked it before. When the NFL lockout hit, I was kind of expecting myself to not be as big a fan as I was before, but I still am. I'm still a big football fan, even if it's a greedy business.

I don't get the point of when people argue about who the bigger fan is. Not only does it not matter, it's impossible to prove. It's similar to the Peyton-Brady "debates". It doesn't matter who is a "bigger" fan, the point is we are all fans cheering for the same team! As Bob Sanders once said, "That's how we do it man, Colts ball, all day" :coltshorse:

Thanks! :)

Yeah, I was worried if we had an extended lockout that cost the NFL actual games and how that would effect the overall fan base. Never been a hockey fan of any certain team and really don't understand all of the rules, but I have been to a few games and that's pretty fun to watch, live. On TV not so much.

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