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As Sunday’s Colts-Broncos showdown nears, Andrew Luck and Peyton Manning are the story.

When you tune in, you are on Dakich’s team. He will teach you. Lecture you. Tell you to “sack up.” He will hang up on you and call you an idiot.

A couple of Butler greats—Gordon Hayward and Brad Stevens—draw raves and a rant.

Hijinks ensued that included that rapper/host, current Indiana star Paul George, and now-erstwhile Indy joker Lance Stephenson.

Via @colefarrell: “Walking downtown, I heard an older man refer to the farmers market as ‘that weekly veggie festival.’ I’m into it.”

When you’re an IU alum watching nationally televised basketball games, like Tuesday’s against North Carolina, it’s fun knowing the rest of the nation is exposed to little things so familiar to Hoosiers. But it’s even cooler when something you have a close personal connection to gets time in the limelight.

The plaudits are all in: Indy is the big winner of Super Bowl XLVI.

A lot is afoot both in front of the masses and behind the scenes with Indy’s impending Super Bowl. Here’s a list of the latest figures, some of them mind-boggling: