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A Great Colts Story

[Editors Note: added from FanPosts-- bbs]

Well ... I've got an amazing story for all of you at SB and it doesn't involve me ranting about bad run defense or my favorite #4 wide receiver

I'm a member of the Army Reserves and right now I'm in the middle of my second deployment to Afghanistan.  Currently I'm home for my two week leave, I returned to Indy last Wednesday and it's been crazy ever since.

My girlfriend and I are huge Colts fans, and we had tickets to Sunday's game against the Ravens.  Two days after I got home, as in Friday - as in two days before the Colts game - I went to Reis-Nichols in Indy to pick up the engagement ring I had picked out for my girlfriend.  At this point I still had no idea how i was going to propose, I had some ideas in my head, including the Colts game. 

Well I mentioned this to the jeweler (who was amazing in helping me pick out a ring via email from overseas) and this is the where the story gets good:  he says do it, and you should use the jumbo-tron !! We can make this happen !! and he gets on his cell phone and starts texting people at the Colts !! (they are the official jeweler of the Colts) ...  So it was to late to get in on the jumbo-tron, but long story short - after many, many phone calls - the Colts hooked us up !!

Here's what they did ... not only did they arrange for Blue the Mascot to come to our section with a sign and flowers for my soon to be fiancee, but they also gave us four complimentary tickets .... yes four free tickets ... in the lower level ..... section 141 .... second row on the 40 yard line !!!! The absolute best seats i've ever had at a game in my life, and the Colts gave us 4 of them - for free !! Unbelievable !!

It all happened so fast, but in the first quarter with about 6 minutes left, Blue showed up, held up the sign and the section went crazy .... and i proposed and it could not have been more amazing. My girlfriend was blown away and she absolutely loved it.  Ofcourse she called about 378 people and at the end of the game, with things winding down, I asked an equipment manager if our favorite player, Dallas Clark, could come over for a quick picture .... he couldn't come over ... but he did wave and yell at us and say congratulations.  It was an awesome ending to an awesome day.

I wanted to share this story with all you Colts fans out there and say a huge thank you and huge kudos to Reis-Nichols, Dallas Clark, and the Indianapolis Colts for being such an amazing organization and classy football team.    

This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Stampede Blue's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Stampede Blue's writers or editors.

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Congrats Man!

That is most definitely a great story! Sounds like everything went perfect for you! Much better than the way I proposed…I won’t go into details, but it involved her having half her make-up on and in her parents’ bathroom…hahahaha…

Congrats once again.

by MarkFive05 on Oct 16, 2008 10:00 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

That's great!

It doesn’t surprise me…the Colts’ organization is the epidemy of the word “class”.

Congratulations to you both!

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on Oct 16, 2008 10:46 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Congrats

That’s so cool!! Congratulations on the engagement. Any chance you could post your profile picture so we can see it bigger? The sign says “She said yes!”, but that’s all I can make out. Congrats again and a shout out to the entire Colts organization.

Also, thanks for your service…

by TouchdownMonkey on Oct 16, 2008 10:55 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

click the name to go to the profile

or do you mean bigger than the picture is there?

I'm still here in the flesh
Twenty-one year old legend
I'ma live way after my death
-Lil' Wayne "Get Down"

by shake n bake on Oct 16, 2008 10:57 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

D'oh!

Don’t mind me. I forgot my brain at home this morning…

by TouchdownMonkey on Oct 16, 2008 11:05 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Thats an awesome story man

and whats better is that you were at the tgame where the Colts were resurrected.

by metal_militia on Oct 16, 2008 12:33 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Congratulations

This is a great story, and happy to hear we have taken care of one of our hard-fighting military men out there!

by LovinBlue on Oct 16, 2008 2:01 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Nice

Congrats, dude, and thanks for defending our country. You deserve exactly what the Colts gave you. Here’s to a future happy and healthy marriage.

by session55 on Oct 16, 2008 3:20 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

That's awesome

Congrats!

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by MrNFL on Oct 16, 2008 3:44 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Congrats dude thats soo totally awesome

by Parrish11rules on Oct 16, 2008 4:41 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Way to go

Nice work! I was told by the ex that she would say no if it was at a sporting event, so seems like you found a keeper. Women who love sports are hard to come by (trust me on that one).

by canadiancolts on Oct 16, 2008 7:50 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

That's right

We are very special, indeed! :)

"I throw, you catch. It's NOT that hard!"
Peyton Manning, SNL, 2007

by peytonsthebest on Oct 17, 2008 10:28 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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