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'My Why': Colts' Ryan Kelly honors daughter with butterfly on Pro Bowl helmet

Colts center Ryan Kelly remembered his daughter, Mary Kate, with a butterfly on his Pro Bowl helmet.

"My Why. Fly high sweet girl," he tweeted.

Mary Kate died in December, 19 weeks into the pregnancy.

“It wasn’t in God’s plan for our sweet girl,” Kelly said when he returned to the team. “We had to say goodbye, the hardest thing that either of has ever, and hopefully will ever, have to go through. But this is about my wife, and the rock star that she is.”

Kelly missed the Colts' win over the Patriots, but Colts owner Jim Irsay gave the game ball to Ryan and Emma.