Starting with the 2006 season, the Texans wear all-white for their home opener and the team began to wear an all-blue combination for home games vs. the Indianapolis Colts.

Aside from the multitude of regional games held during the NCAA tournament, Indianapolis has hosted six men's NCAA Final Fours ( 1980, 1991, 1997, 2000, 2006, 2010 ) and two women's ( 2005, 2011 ).

Indianapolis entered the 2006 season with a veteran quarterback, receivers and defenders and would go onto draft Joseph Addai in the 2006 draft.

Repr., Indianapolis: The Liberty Fund, 2006.

In 2005, the Mud Hens won the International League Governor's Cup Championship against the Indianapolis Indians and again in 2006 against the Rochester Red Wings for their 2nd and 3rd championships.

In January 2006 speed limit signs of 15 to 20 mph have been added to sections of the trail north of 96th Street which is the county line with Marion County ( Indianapolis.

* P. J. Chesson ( born 1978 ), IndyCar driver who raced in the 2006 Indianapolis 500.

Bryan is the birthplace of 2006 Indianapolis 500 champion — and current NASCAR driver -- Sam Hornish, Jr., Bob Hartman, founder of the Christian rock pioneer group " Petra ", and of Mark Winegardner, chosen to be the author of the novel The Godfather Returns.

* The Pride of Broken Arrow marching band won 1st place in the Bands of America Grand Nationals championship at Indianapolis in 2006 and 2011.

The National FFA Convention is held once a year in October, and was originally held in Kansas City, Missouri, from 1928 – 1998, but moved to Louisville, Kentucky ( 1999 – 2005 ), for seven years, and is currently held at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, from 2006 to present.

He immediately signed a free agent contract with the Indianapolis Colts but was once again released prior to the start of the 2006 NFL season.

After winning his fifth United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis in 2006, Formula One driver Michael Schumacher holds the record for most victories between the three major events ( Indianapolis 500, Brickyard 400 and the F1 USGP ), with all taking place on the Formula One version of the road course.

Sam Hornish Jr. became the first driver to ever overtake for the lead on the race's final lap, ultimately winning the 2006 Indianapolis 500 in the last by a 0. 0635-second margin over rookie Marco Andretti.

Many commentators questioned whether a United States Grand Prix would be held in Indianapolis again, but the 2006 United States Grand Prix was held the next year, on 2 July 2006, without controversy.

* Indianapolis Raceway Park until 2006, when the track was renamed O ' Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis and renamed again in 2011 as Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis.

On the same weekend, Kanaan raced in the 2006 Indianapolis 500 race using Barrichello's helmet livery.

At the 2006 Monaco Grand Prix he had the helmet livery of fellow Brazilian and Barrichello's good friend Tony Kanaan, who in turn had Barrichello's helmet livery while racing in 2006 Indianapolis 500 which was held on the same day because they said it would be the closest either of them would get to competing in the biggest race of the year of the category the other raced in.

After that airline entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late 2004, operations at IND were drastically cut, and service in Indianapolis was totally eliminated in 2006.

The Colts won the next three matches, notching two regular season victories and a win in the 2006 AFC Championship game on the way to their win in Super Bowl XLI.

Following his release from the Colts, Boerigter signed a contract and returned to his former CFL team, the Calgary Stampeders on November 20, 2006.

Minden, a small city, produced other successful athletes too, including David Allen Lee ( born 1943 ), the punter for the Baltimore Colts from 1966 – 1978, and Fred Haynes ( 1946 – 2006 ), the holder of many football records as the quarterback at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge during the late 1960s.

* 2006 ( NFL )-Super Bowl XLI-2 / 4 / 07 AFC Indianapolis Colts 29, NFC Chicago Bears 17

Manning and the 2006 Colts visit President George W. Bush at the White House.

In the 2006 offseason, Vanderjagt became a free agent, and the Colts elected not to re-sign him.

Vinatieri won Super Bowls in 2001, 2003, and 2004 with the Patriots, as well as 2006 with the Colts.

On May 16, 2006 the Barrie Colts announced the resignation of the team's general manager, Mike McCann.

On January 15, 2006, Bettis was the center of one of football's most memorable endings in a divisional playoff game against the Indianapolis Colts.

Seymour was fined $ 7, 500 by the NFL for stepping on Indianapolis Colts offensive lineman Tarik Glenn during a November 5, 2006 game.

The Colts ' 2006 playoff run was characterized by a marked improvement in defensive play, as the Colts defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, holding one of the NFL's best running backs to less than 50 yards, and upset the favored Baltimore Ravens in the divisional round.

She continued to cover the NFL for Westwood One throughout the 2006 season, with her final broadcast being Super Bowl XLI between the Indianapolis Colts and the Chicago Bears on February 4, 2007.

Patriots linebacker Tedy Bruschi replaced kicker Adam Vinatieri as pitchman in fall 2006 after Vinatieri was signed by the Indianapolis Colts.

Super Bowl XLI was an American football game between the American Football Conference ( AFC ) champion Indianapolis Colts and the National Football Conference ( NFC ) champion Chicago Bears to decide the National Football League ( NFL ) champion for the 2006 season.

Still, the Colts remained one of the AFC's top teams in the 2006 NFL season.

Morris started at middle linebacker for the Colts for the first 5 years of his career, and was the Colts ' leading special teams tackler in the 2006 season.

Morris also started 9 games for the Colts during the 2006 season, including 3 games in the playoffs and Super Bowl XLI, replacing Gilbert Gardner to improve the Colts ' run defense.

After he participated in only four games of the 2006 season, the Colts terminated his contract on March 1, 2007.

Mora was fired after the season and replaced by Tony Dungy who led the Colts to win the Super Bowl in 2006 before leaving the Colts after the 2008 season.

* AARP honored Powell with the 2006 AARP Andrus Award, the Association's highest honor.

In May 2006, Wray became one of the first four entertainers to ever be honored by Canada Post by being featured on a postage stamp.

On December 22, 2006, the journal Science honored Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture as the scientific " Breakthrough of the Year ", the first time this had been bestowed in the area of mathematics.

In December 2006, the journal Science honored the proof of Poincaré conjecture as the Breakthrough of the Year and featured it on its cover.

However by 2006, a cover story on Led Zeppelin honored them as " the Heaviest Band of All Time ".

She was honored by The Washington Center for the Book for her distinguished body of work with the Maxine Cushing Gray Fellowship for Writers on October 18, 2006.

Herzog was honored at the 49th San Francisco International Film Festival, receiving the 2006 Film Society Directing Award.

Before his death in January 2006, Rawls ' last performance was a taping for the 2006 telethon that honored Wonder, months before entering the hospital after being diagnosed with cancer earlier in the year.

Witten has been honored with numerous awards including a MacArthur Grant ( 1982 ), the Fields Medal ( 1990 ), the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics ( 2000 ), the National Medal of Science ( 2002 ), Pythagoras Award ( 2005 ), the Henri Poincaré Prize ( 2006 ), the Crafoord Prize ( 2008 ), the Lorentz Medal ( 2010 ) the Isaac Newton Medal ( 2010 ) and the Fundamental Physics Prize ( 2012 ).

Following the Esperanza Fire ( Cabazon, 2006 ) that resulted in the deaths of five Forest Service employees, several wildland firefighters began to try to locate the family members and written record of former Tribal Member Frank Rios who was killed in a wildfire in October 1967 in the same area, so that his story can be told and remembered, and that his family can be properly honored for their service and their loss.

On September 13, 2006, Scruggs was honored at Turner Field in Atlanta as part of the pre-game show for an Atlanta Braves home game.

Two decades after his death, his memory was honored with the Disney Legends citation in 2003 and induction into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006.

Mulisch was honored with a planetoid in his name on 12 October 2006 ( see 10251 Mulisch )

On December 5, 2006, Oklahoma City honored the band with a downtown alley named after the band.

In 1975, she was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and in 2006 became the first black Oscar winner honored with a US postage stamp.

With Jack Kirby, Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman, Gary Panter, and Chris Ware, Crumb was among the artists honored in the exhibition " Masters of American Comics " at the Jewish Museum in New York City, New York, from September 16, 2006 to January 28, 2007.

Costner was honored on September 6, 2006 when his hand and foot prints were set in concrete in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre alongside those of other celebrated actors and entertainers.

On May 16, 2006, Crosby, Stills & Nash were honored as a BMI Icon at the 54th annual BMI Pop Awards.

As one of the early artists at Atlantic Records, on April 17, 2007 Burke honored Ahmet Ertegün, the co-founder of Atlantic Records and also of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, who had died on December 14, 2006.

In 2006, Haggard was honored as a BMI Icon at the 54th annual BMI Pop Awards.

Recipient of the 2006 Lifetime Emmy Award, " Bill Moyers has devoted his lifetime to the exploration of the major issues and ideas of our time and our country, giving television viewers an informed perspective on political and societal concerns ," according to the official announcement, which also noted that " the scope of and quality of his broadcasts have been honored time and again.

On March 25, 2006 Wray was honored by " The First Americans in the Arts " with the Life Time Achievement Award.

On April 3, 2006, Green was honored with the ASCAP Crescendo Award at the 28th annual ASCAP Christian Music Awards presentation dinner.