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Established | 1953 | Play in | Lucas Oil Stadium Indianapolis, Indiana | Mascot | Blue | Owner | Jim Irsay | CEO | Jim Irsay | General manager | Bill Polian | Head coach | Jim Caldwell|owner=Jim Irsay | Team history | * Baltimore Colts (1953 � 1983) | Indianapolis Colts 1984 - present | Championships | League championships | * NFL Championships (3) 1958, 1959, 1968 (4†) | Super Bowl Championships | 1970 (V), 2006 (XLI) (2) | Conference championships | * NFL Western: 1958, 1959, 1964, 1968
* AFC: 1970, 2006, 2009 (7) | Division championships | * NFL Coastal: 1968
* AFC East: 1970, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1987, 1999
* AFC South: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010
† � Does not include the AFL or NFL Championships won during the same seasons as the AFL-NFL Super Bowl Championships prior to the 1970 AFL-NFL Merger (14) | Playoff appearances | - NFL: 1958, 1959, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1987, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
| Home fields | * Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) (1953 � 1983)
* RCA Dome (1984 � 2007)
** a.k.a. Hoosier Dome (1984 � 93)
* Lucas Oil Stadium (2008 � present) |
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The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
The club was officially founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1953, but can trace its history to the Dayton Triangles, a founding member of the NFL that was originally created in 1913. After a series of changes, it assumed the name Baltimore Colts, replacing a previous team of that name that folded in 1950. Playing at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, the Colts became the first NFL team to have cheerleaders. The team then relocated to Indianapolis in 1984, first playing at the Hoosier Dome, which was then renamed the RCA Dome, before moving to Lucas Oil Stadium in 2008.
The Colts won four NFL championships (three NFL Championships in 1958, 1959, 1968; and Super Bowl V in 1971) while in Baltimore. Since moving to Indianapolis, they won Super Bowl XLI in 2007. Also since 1998, the team has become the first in league history to win 12 games or more in five consecutive seasons-extending this record to seven after the 2009 season.
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