Indianapolis is My Home

19
May

Tomorrow Is the Big Day - Super Bowl 2012?

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Downtown, Indianapolis Colts, Indy Pro Athletes, Lucas Oil Stadium

Tomorrow is the big day, the NFL owners should decide where the Super Bowl will be taking place in 2012. According to the IBJ, Indianapolis is leading as the "frontrunner".

"There’s a thought that Indianapolis and Jim Irsay have done everything they need to host a Super Bowl," said Marc Ganis, president of Chicago-based consulting firm Sportcorp Ltd., which counts several NFL teams as clients. "You can never predict what these 32 owners will decide, but some think Indianapolis is in a solid position."

The Indianapolis promoters have added an interesting idea to build the equivalent of an "Olympic village" downtown to provide an epicenter of activity for visitors to participate in without having to have tickets to game itself.

03
Feb

Cheaters Never Win, Winners Never Cheat

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Indianapolis Colts, News, Sports

A huge congratulations to Eli Manning and the New York Giants. What a season. What a comeback. What a Super Bowl.

Thank you for beating the Patriots and ruining their perfect season.

I’ve got to say this, there will probably be some smack talk in the Manning household for awhile. It’s a good thing that Peyton won last year, can you imagine the grief Eli would have been giving Peyton if he’d won his first?

Good job guys! What a season!

03
Feb

Patriots Welcomed with Boos

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Indianapolis Colts, Sports

Watching the Super Bowl, even though the Colts aren’t playing. Cheering for Eli or against the Patriots. Both reasons are pretty much equally valid.

Was it just me, or were the Patriots welcomed into the stadium with boos from the crowd?

Guess more news of additional cheating and videotaping makes for upset football fans across the board.

Jordin Sparks may have sung the best rendition of The National Anthem that I’ve ever heard at a Super Bowl, or any sporting event for that matter.

21
Jan

Woo hooo!!! Dungy’s Back for Another Season

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Indianapolis Colts, News, Sports

Good news today. Tony Dungy has decided he will come back for another season with the Indianapolis Colts. I believe that I should start preparing now for the fact that he’s probably not going to be here another year.

What a history and success he’s had with the Colts and in his coaching career as it is:

Dungy is 127-65 in 12 seasons as a head coach, finishing his six-year career in Tampa Bay as the franchise’s winningest coach. He is the only Colts coach to get double-digit victory totals and earn playoff berths in six straight seasons. He led the Buccaneers to the NFC championship game in 1999 and has been to the AFC championship game twice with the Colts, following the 2003 and 2006 seasons.

In 2007, the Colts became the first team in league history to win at least 12 games in five consecutive years, and Indy has won five straight AFC South titles. Dungy also has been an assistant coach with Minnesota, Kansas City and Pittsburgh and spent three seasons in the late ’70s playing for the Steelers and San Francisco 49ers.

Colts head coach Dungy will return for the 2008 season

20
Jan

Is Dungy Done?

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Indianapolis Colts, Indy Pro Athletes, News, People, RCA Dome, Sports

This is not happy news to even hint at but we’re all waiting to hear from Tony Dungy on Monday if he’ll be back for another season with the team. Irsay has already announced that upon his decision to leave, assistant coach Jim Cardwell will become head coach on Dungy’s departure.

We were talking this past week about the possibility of Dungy retiring from the Colts again. I can understand his desire to move on and focus on other things. The thoughts we all shared though was that his position as head coach of an NFL team that’s doing very well affords him the ability to make even more changes in the community for the good don’t you think?

I don’t think it bodes well that his kids have already enrolled in schools in the Tampa area. I’ll bet he could walk right back in the door of the Bucs and get a head coaching job back.

Sad day. Sad, sad day.

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15
Jan

Over for the Colts - Here’s to Next Year

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Indianapolis Colts, Indy Pro Athletes, News, Sports

I’m sad, but not too shocked. Let down, but not surprised. I’m amazed that our defense barely showed up for the game. We just didn’t play well at all. I don’t want to say we didn’t prepare, I’m sure Tony and Peyton wouldn’t let that happen, but we sure didn’t show up for yesterday’s game.

The San Diego Charger’s two star players LaDanian Tomlinson and Philip Rivers were both out for the 4th quarter and they still beat us. We let them march it down the field and score a touchdown.

I will say I think Norv Turner is a big cry-baby. He marched out onto the field on almost every call that went against his team. I will give him credit, the one he had a right to be upset about was the pass interference call with Reggie Wayne in the second half I believe. Didn’t see anything on that one.

If we’ve won the game I was going to try and get a movement going for thousands of Indianapolis Colts fans to mail Norv a box a Kleenex. Can’t really do that since we’re the losers.

Anthony Gonzalez had an amazing play tight-roping the sideline to run down for a touchdown. Great job!

I’m stuck between a rock and hard place now, it’s going to be good football hopefully. I really like Brett Farve, but I’m rooting big time for Eli Manning to have a good showing. I really like LaDaniana Tomlinson, but Philip Rivers appears to be a big jerk. I can’t stand the Patriots, but they’ve got a great team working together now and Belichick is a cheating but brilliant coach. I’d love to see the Patriots go down, but I’d also give serious credit to them if they can pull out everything and win it all. After all, if that were the case the last team to beat them will still have been the Indianapolis Colts in the 2007 AFC Championship Game.

Photo Source: Lucas Oil

11
Jan

A Colts Joke for the Weekend

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Humor, Indianapolis Colts

Four football fans - a Cowboys fan, a Chargers fan, a Colts fan, and a Patriots fan - are climbing a mountain and arguing about who loves his team more.

The Cowboys fan insists he is the most loyal.  ‘This is for the Cowboys!’ he yells, and jumps off the side of the mountain.

Not to be outdone, the Chargers fan shouts, ‘This is for the Chargers!’ and throws himself off the mountain.

The Colts fan is next to profess his love for his team.

He yells, ‘This is for everyone!’ and pushes the Patriot fan off the mountain.

Go Colts!

08
Jan

Bob Sanders wins Defensive Player award - Yahoo! News

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Awards & Recognition, Indianapolis Colts, Indy Pro Athletes, Sports

"Over 75% of the earth is covered by water. Bob Sanders covers the rest." - Unknown

A big congratulations to Bob Sanders of the Indianapolis Colts. He won the Defensive Player of the Year Award by a landslide! Of 50 votes possible, consisting of a variety of media personnel that cover the NFL, Sanders won 31 of the votes.

Here’s the full breakdown on votes:

1. Bob Sanders, Indianapolis Colts (31 votes)
2. Patrick Kerney, Seattle Seahawks (4 votes)
3. Albert Haynesworth, Tennessee Titans (4 votes) [And face stomper!]
4. Antonio Cromartie, San Diego Chargers (3 votes)
5. Mike Vrabel, New England Patriots (2 votes)
6. DeMarcus Ware, Dallas Cowboys (2 votes)
7. Ronde Barber, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1 vote)
8. James Harrison, Pittsburgh Steelers (1 vote)
9. Patrick Willis, San Francisco 49′ers (1 vote)
10. Mario Williams, Houston Texans (1 vote)

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31
Dec

Colts Give Titans Cakewalk into Playoffs

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Indianapolis Colts, RCA Dome, Sports

I got to go to the last regular season game in the RCA Dome last night and it was a good time. The seats were great, very front row of the upper deck.

The problem with the game is they didn’t play to win. When Harrison walked out in regular clothes I knew Peyton wasn’t going to be in the game for long. I just didn’t realize how little he was going to play. They pulled him early in the 2nd quarter along with the rest of the starting offense.

I understand resting your players to prepare for the play-offs, but my opinion is you don’t let yourself lose to a division opponent, especially the Titans! People are going to feel pretty bad if we meet them in the playoffs and they beat us. We deserve to lose if they do though.

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30
Dec

Final Regular Season Game in the RCA Dome

Author: Jason Bean, Category: Business, Indianapolis Colts, Indy Pro Athletes, People, RCA Dome, Sports

Last week my son and I got to enjoy the Colts vs. Texans home game. My wife purchased the tickets as a birthday gift for my son and they were great! While we were at the game they were making announcements about this week’s game being the last regular season game in the RCA Dome.

I was thinking then that it would be great to be able to get tickets for the game and be able to be there for the last home game in the dome. At the time I didn’t think about it too much because of the unlikelihood of me actually getting tickets.

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