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Peyton Manning: 'I'll always be a Colt'

Clark Wade / IndyStar

He went back to his first meeting with Jim Irsay, the day 18 years ago he looked his future team owner in the eye and told him, “I’ll win for you.” He laughed, thinking about his first three nights in Indianapolis after the 1998 NFL draft, spent at the now-defunct Signature Inn on West 38th Street. He mentioned his first-ever throw in an Indianapolis Colts uniform, a short slant over the middle that Marvin Harrison turned into a 48-yard touchdown. This NFL is easy, Peyton Manning told himself that day.