The Indianapolis Colts are defending hanging a "2014 AFC Finalist" banner at Lucas Oil Stadium despite the team's 45-7 drubbing in the game just months earlier.

A Super Bowl banner is a different animal, and we treat it as such." Ward pointed to the elaborate ceremony the team held in 2007 after the Colts defeated the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI.

Matt Ulrich lifts the Lombardi Trophy to celebrate the Colts' Super Bowl win over the Bears on Feb. 4, 2007. Tribune News Service via Getty Images Matt Ulrich playing for the Colts on Sept. 17, 2006.

The height of Irsay's time as Colts owner occurred on January 21, 2007. The Colts won the Super Bowl two weeks later, on a rainy night in Miami, but the team's true defining moment was against the ...

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There were the nights when Jansen and his wife, Beth, were going out. She would say to him with a smile, "Wear the ring." Jansen would put on his 2006 Colts Super Bowl ring won with Peyton Manning.

Former Indianapolis Colts offensive lineman Matt Ulrich hoists the Lombardi Trophy to celebrate a 29-17 victory over the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI in Miami, Florida, on Sunday, February 4, 2007.

Matt Ulrich, who won Super Bowl XLI with the Indianapolis Colts, died at 41 on Wednesday. The cause of death has not been announced. Colts team owner Jim Irsay announced the news.