Pat McAfee

Some NFL players could be going back to school—at Indiana University—instead of packing for vacation.

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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 Marian Knights seek a NAIA football championship. Meanwhile, Dan Dakich and Pat McAfee gets into a Twitter dust-up.

“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.”

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In 30 years, Indy has shared as many good times—and bad—with our Colts as Baltimore ever did. We’ve laughed. We’ve cried. Most of all, though, we’ve cheered.

The two men standing together in the Indianapolis Colts’ locker room had little in common.

Question: If you could press a button and make one Indy thing vanish forever, which would you choose?

In an exclusive interview, McAfee recounted the time, just ahead of the 2009 NFL draft, when he appeared in a pro-wrestling match. Here, in his own words, is what went down.

Via @TheJennaBee: “My boyfriend is watching wedding shows with me, in case you were looking for real life examples of Stockholm Syndrome.”

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The Colts punter can add “professional family-reuniter” to his resume after Sunday’s Veterans Day ceremony at Lucas Oil Stadium.

It’s that #UpperBodyOfAnAdolescent hashtag that truly sets McAfee apart from his colleagues, and his tweeting peers, these days.

As for Chuckstrong’s future, the Colts are following Pagano’s lead—and his priority is to restore normalcy. “We need to get back to Coltstrong,” Pagano says. “That’s where the focus should be.”