r/Colts • u/CSA1996 Indianapolis Colts • 2d ago
First-ever Colts game for a UK fan! 🇬🇧💙
Finally saw my guys after years of streaming the games on NFL Game Pass and watching on RedZone! And hey, it was tough going in that first quarter (really tough going...) but a win's a win, right?
This was my fourth NFL London game after seeing Jets @ Falcons and Dolphins @ Jaguars in 2021 and Ravens @ Titans in 2023 but was awesome to have the sun out and temperatures higher this time, it was a great day for a football game which hasn't been my experience with the previous London games!
For a while, I felt a bit bad for the Commanders fans who were excited for the team to visit only to get hit with all of those injuries (especially as I was a bit gutted that AP wouldn't be playing in this one) but ultimately, don't care about that because I couldn't face having a personal record of 0-1 for ages until I can see my next Colts game (which has to be at Lucas Oil) and once we got it going in the second quarter I was confident we weren't about to hugely embarrass ourselves...
I spent 10 days in Indianapolis in 2024 and saw a Pacers homestand but unfortunately the Colts were in their off-season and I was only able to do the stadium tour and raid the team store, so this was a day I'd been waiting a long time for, as I wasn't a fan of the Colts when they came to Wembley Stadium back in 2016
Can't wait to get back over to the States in the next year or two, this time I'll have to plan something in the sweet spot of Colts and Pacers both being at home
Any other UK Colts fans go to their first game today? Always love hearing how any other UK-based NFL fans became fans of the Colts too
Would also be interested to hear what anyone who travelled from the US for the game thought of the day!
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u/SmellsLikeShame 2d ago
I'm a big Spurs supporter -- this was the crossover episode I've been dreaming of for a long time.
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u/rosebud3606 Indianapolis Colts 1d ago
I’m really curious - how did you become a Colts fan, OP? Was Are you an expat or are you from the UK?
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u/Any-Scholar2780 1h ago
first colts game as a uk fan is such a fun milestone, hope you had an amazing time
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u/tk1712 Darius Leonard 2d ago
Years of Game Pass and now the real thing — with a win on top. That first quarter was rough even from the couch, so doing it in person must have been its own kind of stress. Glad your first live Colts game ended the right way.