Pittsburgh, who dominated teams with their " Steel Curtain " defense and running game, finished the regular season with a league best 12 – 2 record and defeated the Baltimore Colts and the Oakland Raiders in the playoffs.

However, New England's defense dominated the Colts, only allowing 14 points, intercepting 4 passes from Manning ( 3 of them by Law ), and forcing a safety.

It would seem the Colts had little incentive to win as their loss would ensure that they would play a team they dominated in the 2003 Wild Card game.

The Steelers dominated the Colts with 526 yards of total offense, while limiting Baltimore to only 170.

Ragen's Colts was a chiefly Irish street gang which dominated the Chicago underworld during the early twentieth century.

The Patriots owned the beginning of the series, defeating the Colts in six consecutive contests including the 2003 AFC Championship game and a 2004 AFC Divisional game.

In 1975 Baltimore and Miami tied with 10 – 4 records, yet the Colts advanced to the playoffs based on a head-to-head sweep of their series.

In 1995, now as Indianapolis, the two both posted borderline 9 – 7 records to tie for second against Buffalo, yet the Colts once again reached the post-season having swept the season series.

In the first 2 games the teams traded 4-1 wins before the flood gates opened and the Colts took control of the series.

Game 5 was much closer but the Colts still took the game 3-2 and the series in only five games and thus beginning the Battalion ’ s Curse of the Colts.

During the 1st round they would have to go up against the # 1 Barrie Colts who still had most of their players from the previous season ’ s series.

In OT it took the Colts only 5 minutes to score and thus end the series in 4 straight games.

With Brampton heavily favored to win the series the Colts shocked as Barrie won the first two games by 2-1 and 3-2 ( OT ) scores.

The Cornwall Colts finished third in the series winning 2 of 5 games.

Some of these events, such as his stint with the Colts, and an attempt at stand-up comedy, were presented on the ABC television network as a series of specials.

The Colts responded well, winning their next 8 games before losing their final regular season game to Denver, a game in which Manning played only the first series.

In the final game of the regular season, Manning played only two series before being replaced with back-up Jim Sorgi ; the Colts lost the game to the Titans, 16 – 10.

In the playoffs the Colts would play their first series against division rivals Sudbury Wolves.

The Colts would lose the series in six games.

In the playoffs the Colts faced the North Bay Centennials in the conference quarter finals, winning the series four games to two.

The Colts defeated the Whalers in a seven game series, winning the J. Ross Robertson Cup and advancing to the Memorial Cup finals in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In the playoffs, the Colts once agaian met the Sudbury Wolves, this time beating them in a five game series.

In the playoffs the Colts would lose their first-round playoff series to the Brampton Battalion in six games.

In the playoffs the Colts would dispose of the fifth place Kingston Frontenacs in five games before losing a seven game series to the second place Mississauga Ice Dogs.

In the playoffs that year the Colts lost a disappointing first round series to the eventual Memorial Cup semi-finalist Ottawa 67's.

The Colts finished with a 28-34-3-3 record defeating Brampton Battalion in a four game playoff series, before losing to the Belville Bulls 4 games to 1 in the conference semi-finals.

After the Colts built a comanding 3-1 series lead, injuries to forwards Tanner Pearson, Zach Hall, Steven Beyers, Gregg Sutch, and Ivan Telegin in game 7, as well as defencemen Ryan O ' Connor, and Alex Yuill would eventually take their toll.

David Loverne was inactive for the entire season but did play on special teams for the next 2 years-even getting in some O-Line rotational duty in 2001 to complement the team-even playing a series at Fullback ( blocking ) vs the Colts.

After sweeping the Owen Sound Platers in the conference qurater-finals, the Colts lost in seven games to the fourth place Oshawa Generals who had finished the season twenty points behind the Colts.

Beginning the 2009-10 playoffs the Colts quickly defeated the Sudbury Wolves 4-0 in the Conference Quarter-Finals, before sweeping the Brampton Battalion in the Conference Semi-Finals.

He played in the Ontario Hockey League from 1997 to 2000 with the Sarnia Sting, the St. Michael's Majors, and the Barrie Colts.

The rebuilt Colts team finished two points behind the Toronto St. Michael's Majors for second in the central division and second in the conference with a record of 38-19-9-2.

In the conference finals the Colts played division rival Toronto St. Michael's Majors.

In the playoffs the Colts quickly disposed of the Toronto St. Michael's Majors and Brampton Battalion in four games and five games respectively before losing to the eventual OHL champions Peterborough Petes in five games.

In the playoffs the Colts lost in the first round, falling in five games to the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors.

In the Conference Finals the Colts finally met some stiff competition but were still able to defeat the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors 4-1 and win the Bobby Orr Trophy.

The Colts took care of the Majors in 6 games, and would face the 2nd seed Ottawa 67's in the second round.

Colts are carried on average about 4 days longer than fillies.

The Colts also returned to the playoffs in 2003 and 2004 with 12 – 4 records and AFC South championships.

On November 4, 2007 the Patriots defeated the Colts 24 – 20 ; in the next matchup on November 2, 2008, the Colts won 18 – 15 in a game that was one of the reasons the Patriots failed to make the playoffs ; in the 2009 meeting, the Colts staged a spirited comeback to beat the Patriots 35 – 34 ; in the most recent 2010 game, the Colts almost staged another comeback, pulling within 31 – 28 after trailing 31 – 14 in the fourth quarter, but fell short due to a Patriots interception of a Manning pass late in the game.

Yet in 1971 the teams were engaged in a heated race that went down to the final week of the season, where Miami won its first division title with a 10 – 3 – 1 title compared to the 10 – 4 Baltimore record after the Colts won the Week 13 matchup between them at home, but proceeded to lose the last game of the season to Boston.

They were second to the Colts in passing yards per game ( 282. 4 ), second to the Patriots in points scored per game ( 27. 6 ), 1st in passing yards allowed per game ( 177. 8 ), 4th in rushing yards allowed per game ( 93. 8 ), and tied for 2nd in sacks ( 47 ).

* Adam Vinatieri — 4 time super bowl winning kicker for the New England Patriots and Indianapolis Colts

In game 3 the Colts took a dominating 6-1 win before destroying Brampton in game 4 11-2.

In game 4 on home ice the Battalion on the brink of elimination had a 4-1 lead mid way through the third period and appeared to be on their way to a win before the Colts scored 3 goals in less than 7 minutes to force overtime.

The Battalion were able to come back and win game 3 by a score of 5-1 however the Colts would continue to stand behind the absolutely amazing goaltending of Michael Hutchinson in game 4 winning 2-1 in overtime.

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

Since then, there have been six instances of teams advancing to the Super Bowl after playing three playoff games: the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XL as the No. 6 seeded team, the Indianapolis Colts in Super Bowl XLI as the No. 3 seed, the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLII as the No. 5 seed, the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII as the No. 4 seed, the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XLV as the No. 6 seed, and again the New York Giants in Super Bowl XLVI as the No. 4 seed.

The Colts, Cardinals, and the Giants in 2011, like the Panthers, were division winners in those years ( Although in the Colts case, they played the No. 4 seeded New England Patriots in the AFC Championship that year, ensuring at least the second division winner to play three rounds to make it to the Super Bowl.

The Colts responded with a Monday Night victory against Jacksonville, a 43 – 14 win in which Manning threw for 430 yards and 4 touchdowns ; Manning was named the AFC Offensive Player of the Week for this performance.

The Colts won 4 of their next 5 games, including one against New England in which Manning posted the first perfect passer rating of his career, but then lost 4 of the 5 games following that.

Manning threw for 4 touchdowns in the win and was again named AFC Offensive Player of the Week and the win gave the Colts a 10 – 6 record as well as a wild card spot in the playoffs.

The Colts started off the 2002 season 4 – 1, before a 3 game losing streak sent them to 4 – 4.