Tell me about you as a Colts fan!

[2006Coltsbestever]

3 minutes ago, King Colt said:

My addiction started when Johnny U took over the QB job. It was love at first sight. Living in Chicago then they were in the same group as the Bears. My most memorable moment has to be lying on the living room floor watching the Colts NYG game when Ameche drove through fof the winning TD. My dad was not a sports fan and was convinced I was having fits screaming and rolling all over the floor. There was a great question of who was the better QB Unitas of Starr back then. I am pushing 75 very soon and I am still a fan but I can't roll around on the floor like I used to! ;)

Man you are old (sarcasm, joking). For the record Unitas was better than Starr. I have seen film on both and I know their resumes. I have been a fan since 1984 since I was 13, the first time I really got excited was when Dickerson got traded here in 1987. I knew we had the best team in the AFC East then. Dickerson was a one man wrecking crew.

[AustexColt]

I am a  old fan since 1968. I think Jim Irsay is a passionate Colt owner. I appreciate his commitment and bold actio .

[crazycolt1]

10 hours ago, AustexColt said:

I am a  old fan since 1968. I think Jim Irsay is a passionate Colt owner. I appreciate his commitment and bold actio .

Yes Jimmy is one of a kind. He's a pretty good dude. 

[Blitzen]

Welp ! Born in 1962, was too young to know, that I was going to grow up Stupid. So I ended up going with the flow, because everyone is stupid ! 

That worked out for me really well, because I blended right in, and became a face in the crowd of Ignorance. I didn't blame the horse for kicking me, but the shoe left and imprint on my sole, Then Mom got me a Autographed Johnny Unitas Football for Christmas, then I understood the behavior of winning. Colts will always be my team, Win, Lose, or Draw.. Go Colts !!

[Archer]

I became football-aware around 1978 when the family was living in a suburb of DC.  One day before school, my mom said there was a sale on NFL letterman jackets and asked me what team I wanted.  I told her to get me the Falcons, since I liked their helmets.  When I got home from school, she had bought me the Colts, because the store didn’t have Atlanta and she thought the Colts’ colors were “pretty”.  
 

Years later, I had moved to Western Washington state and the Colts had moved to Indy.  It was impossible in the 1980s to see a Colt game on TV or buy any Colt merchandise locally in the Tacoma area.  But somehow my parents had obtained a Colt T-shirt for my birthday.  I vowed to wear it every Monday after a Colt win.  That was the year they started 0-13.  I started wearing the shirt on Mondays after they scored a TD…

[Dunk]

On 1/20/2023 at 9:21 AM, Archer said:

I became football-aware around 1978 when the family was living in a suburb of DC.  One day before school, my mom said there was a sale on NFL letterman jackets and asked me what team I wanted.  I told her to get me the Falcons, since I liked their helmets.  When I got home from school, she had bought me the Colts, because the store didn’t have Atlanta and she thought the Colts’ colors were “pretty”.  
 

Years later, I had moved to Western Washington state and the Colts had moved to Indy.  It was impossible in the 1980s to see a Colt game on TV or buy any Colt merchandise locally in the Tacoma area.  But somehow my parents had obtained a Colt T-shirt for my birthday.  I vowed to wear it every Monday after a Colt win.  That was the year they started 0-13.  I started wearing the shirt on Mondays after they scored a TD…

In the late 80's, early 90's, I bought a lot of Colts T and sweat shirts off the discount rack after the season. I would see more people wearing Dallas, Pittsburgh, and Chicago stuff around here, and it's just over 100 miles south of Indy.

[smittywerb]

It’s funny and weird how I became a colts fan.

 

so in 2000 I got the ps2 and the first game my dad got for me was madden 2001.  I didn’t know anything about the nfl but I knew about football.   My favorite color is blue so I figured the first blue team (the blue that I liked, moreso navy or royal blue) I came across was going to be my favorite team, of course it was colts.  Started actually following them in 2005.  Been a fan ever since.  
 

Later, I became a lurker of the site.  Can’t remember when I started lurking.  But I joined in 2011.

[stitches]

My football and Colts fandom started very late. I've always been interested in sports of all sorts, but in my country American football was not really a sport anyone had any interest in so I was oblivious to it for most of my life. The first time I watched a game of football was when I went to uni in Canada... I went to a few games of the football team of my university with friends and it looked like a good way to spend a few hours with friends, but my love for the game didn't start until a friend of mine hooked me to the NFL. Now that was a competition and a show that truly enthralled me. It was just about the perfect mix of athleticism, savagery, skill and fanaticism to grab my attention. 

 

At the time I didn't have any team I was rooting for so I was just enjoying the game. But at the end of the 2011 season I decided it's time for me to pick a side and complete my destiny as a fan not just of the sport but of a specific team. I decided I wanted to pick a team with an exciting rookie QB, first so I wouldn't be a glory-hunter/fair-weather fan and second so I can have my fandom grow along with the team and the QB of my team. My options were limited to the Colts(Luck) and the Redskins (RG3). At the time I decided to let my feelings and attraction grow naturally and not force myself into any direction so I started watching both teams and both QBs every week and both had great rookie years to follow, but slowly bit by bit I just started drifting towards the Colts. No idea why... I just thought Luck was a fascinating player and the team seemed so likeable at the time. An underdog story - team going from 2 wins to 11 in just one season. TY was showing great potential. By the end of that season I was a Colts fan and haven't looked back since.

 

Luck was the gateway and my Cupid when it comes to the Colts. That's why his slow breakdown and his early retirement hurt so bad for me. That's why I will never forgive Grigson and Pagano for what they did to that amazing football talent. And now we find ourselves in another fork in the road with the potential to get another star QB for the team. I guess my enjoyment of the process will depend on how good the new QB is... but one thing is for sure... whoever it is, and however good he is, I cannot wait to follow the journey. 

 

 

[CanuckColtsFan]

On 1/29/2023 at 8:30 AM, smittywerb said:

It’s funny and weird how I became a colts fan.

 

so in 2000 I got the ps2 and the first game my dad got for me was madden 2001.  I didn’t know anything about the nfl but I knew about football.   My favorite color is blue so I figured the first blue team (the blue that I liked, moreso navy or royal blue) I came across was going to be my favorite team, of course it was colts.  Started actually following them in 2005.  Been a fan ever since.  
 

Later, I became a lurker of the site.  Can’t remember when I started lurking.  But I joined in 2011.

We have very similar story. I too liked the colour scheme. The big draw fir me was I sucked at O so I picked a good one.

[Dunk]

15 hours ago, CanuckColtsFan said:

We have very similar story. I too liked the colour scheme. The big draw fir me was I sucked at O so I picked a good one.

I am a guy who grew up in the magnetic, or Photo electric Football years.

I think it's cool  that a lot of fans now got interested in the NFL, by playing Madden, or other video games. My nephews are two examples, they never physically played the game, but they are knowledgeable, and rabid fans, after getting Madden when they were in their teens.

[smittywerb]

18 hours ago, CanuckColtsFan said:

We have very similar story. I too liked the colour scheme. The big draw fir me was I sucked at O so I picked a good one.

yeah, Madden with Peyton was a cheat code.  Especially with Dallas Clark.  I would just line him up out side and he would cook any linebacker not named Pat Willis lol

[Old Man and the COLTS]

Not sure where this belongs

 

 

 

Ridley auction for Colts super bowl ring from the announcer went for $9,500

 

his AFC championship ring went for $4,200

[Kccolts]

Hi, 

I live in Scotland and have been a colts fan since earl 2000s.

My dad would regularly travel to Indianapolis and bring back some hats t-shirts etc. 

We travelled down to London to see them in 2016 and it was an amazing experience.

This was only beaten in 2018 when we came to states for my 50th birthday taking in Colts v jets inNew York then travelling to your beautiful city to see Colts v Bill, which was the first game I saw them win. 

The Colts are not a big team in UK, so often check in here to keep up to date with what is happening with the team both in off season and during the playing weeks.

I continue to hope the team is picked for another London game, or that I get the chance to travel back to USA sometime soon.

 

[LHS1981]

I was born and raised in southern Indiana...grew up a Dolphins fan in the 70s....when Colts moved to Indy in early 80s I started following the Colts some...it took a few years to change into a full time Colts fan. By the time Harbaugh got us into the AFC Champioship vs Steelers I was a fully a Colts fan. 

[KentuckyFan]

I was born in 83 in Owensboro Kentucky.  My family was not into football so it took me a few years before I got Into it.  I first got into Dan Marino and the dolphins around 4th grade and tried to follow them, but about the only games I got was prime time games.  Since the colts were on every week, I decided to make them my team.  I’m wanting to say it was around 1995 or 96, Jim harbough was qb at the time.

[Albany Ed]

Possibly the first game I can recall watching on TV was the 1958 Championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the NY Giants.  I live in upstate NY, so my family and most of my friends were all Giants fans.  The Giants had many famous players that I knew Conerly, Gifford, Rote and a super defense with Huff, Rosie Grier, Robustelli to name a few.  However, for me, all I remember was Unitas.  I became a Colts fan then and there.  I was always controversial in my fandom.  I wanted to be different than my brothers and my friends.  In baseball, my whole neighborhood was Mickey Mantle and the Yankees, so I rooted for Willie Mays and the NY Giants.  Both of my teams moved, but since I didn't live in the cities they left from, I wasn't as upset as I would have been if I did.  I'm not sure I would have stayed loyal to either if they abandoned my home town, but that wasn't a problem for me.  At any rate, that makes me a Colts fan for 65 years and counting.  

[richard pallo]

1 hour ago, Albany Ed said:

Possibly the first game I can recall watching on TV was the 1958 Championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the NY Giants.  I live in upstate NY, so my family and most of my friends were all Giants fans.  The Giants had many famous players that I knew Conerly, Gifford, Rote and a super defense with Huff, Rosie Grier, Robustelli to name a few.  However, for me, all I remember was Unitas.  I became a Colts fan then and there.  I was always controversial in my fandom.  I wanted to be different than my brothers and my friends.  In baseball, my whole neighborhood was Mickey Mantle and the Yankees, so I rooted for Willie Mays and the NY Giants.  Both of my teams moved, but since I didn't live in the cities they left from, I wasn't as upset as I would have been if I did.  I'm not sure I would have stayed loyal to either if they abandoned my home town, but that wasn't a problem for me.  At any rate, that makes me a Colts fan for 65 years and counting.  

Me too.  Since 1958 as a kid.  Watched the game on tv with my dad who was a Giants fan.  Also 65 years and counting.  I live near Rochester, NY.  Welcome.

[ChuggaBeer]

I have never played or watched anyone play Madden in my life.  HAHA