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“To be very frank, I didn’t have much affection for any Colt player at the time,” he says. “And I’m quite sure the feeling was mutual.”

Patriots QB Tom Brady helps fuel local Colts T-shirt sales.

Via @sportswithjohn: “My condolences to the people of Denver. May you find solace in your beautiful mountains, abundant marijuana, and huge supply of patchouli.”

The Pacers’ Solomon Hill ruined the homecoming of prodigal son Lance Stephenson.

Via @1070Bruno: “Seriously, they should hang banner for this #Pacers team this week. It would have to be a quilt, with loose threads everywhere. But still.”

Colts tackle Anthony Castonzo danced—and everyone (except the Patriots) lost.

“I just really want to play football,” he says. “The love and the joy I get out of it eats me up on the inside.”

Wabash and DePauw meet on the football field for the 121st time.

SI and GQ stuff the Pacers, Tony Dungy tweets his wisdom, Hinkle prepares to show off its makeover, and more.

It hit us like a sack from a 300-pound lineman: Interview Bailey—the Colts receiver who nearly caught that Harbaugh Hail Mary—and then talk him into posing for a photo while wearing the shirt that honors his place in Colts history.

Via @JayNilla: “At halftime, the Union leads the Confederacy 27-14.”

In the show’s season opener, Irsay played the de facto leader of a shadowy cabal of NFL owners.

“I was like, ‘Hey, do NOT kick it to him,” Colts defender Robert Mathis recalls. “‘Kick it to him, and I’m going to fight you.’”

It seems an injured Paul George has unfortunately idle hands.

“We were one of the biggest and best church-sponsored programs in the country,” says Byers. “Race was never really an issue.”