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Indianapolis Colts,

by design.

Every vintage Indianapolis Colts design in the archive: t-shirts, jerseys and jackets from the 1990s and 2000s. Each card is one design with every eBay example of it we found; most are sold out, so open one to see what it went for and search for it again. The horseshoe hardly changed, so read the city: Baltimore Colts gear predates the 1984 move. On jerseys, stripes that stop on top of the shoulder mean 2002 or later.

Colts collector notes by era →

NO. 01 · EVENTS & CHAMPIONSHIPS
NO. 02 · THE 1990S

T-shirts 1

Jerseys 2

Jackets 1

NO. 03 · THE 2000S

Jerseys 1

NO. 04 · ERA UNKNOWN

T-shirts 2

Jerseys 7

Jackets 2

NO. 05 · BIG GAMES IN THE ARCHIVE
NO. 06 · DATING COLTS GEAR
  1. 1982-86Gray pants with a horseshoe and the player's number were worn with the blue jerseys.
  2. 1984The team moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis in late March and adopted the "COLTS" wordmark it used until 2019.
  3. 2002Shoulder stripes were cut to stop on top of the shoulder as jerseys got tighter.
  4. 2004The blue was darkened from royal to "speed blue" and facemasks went back to gray.