{"id":429457,"date":"2009-02-05T07:14:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T07:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vip.local\/2009\/02\/05\/marcuspollard-classiccolt\/"},"modified":"2009-02-05T07:14:05","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T07:14:05","slug":"marcuspollard-classiccolt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/marcuspollard-classiccolt\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcus Pollard-Classic Colt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display:inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"img031.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/18to88.com\/img031.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align:center;display:block;margin:0 auto 20px;\" height=\"299\" width=\"237\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>In 1995, the Colts took a chance on a raw talent out of Bradley University, who didn&#8217;t play college football, but rather basketball.\u00a0 Little did they know that Marcus Pollard would wind up as a Colt for nearly a decade.\u00a0 He would end up becoming a major contribuitor for the Colts, peaking in 2001 with 739 yards and 8 scores.\u00a0 He was part of the excellent tandem of TEs with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.18to88.com\/Classic%20Colts\/dilger.htm\">Ken Dilger.<\/a> Pollard was the deep threat and once scoring an 86 yard TD on a catch and run hook up from Peyton Manning.<\/p>\n<p>Pollard was a fan favorite for his TD celebration of dunking the ball over the goal posts.\u00a0 He is perhaps best remembered by Colts fans for getting unforgivably mugged on consecutive plays at the end of the 2004 AFC Championship game, including the deciding fourth down play where he was dragged to the ground with no call.\u00a0 Pollard has bounced around the NFL since leaving Indianapolis, and had scored a very respectable 40 TDs in his career.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus hold the distinction of being the most frequently nominated new member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/18to88.com\/2008\/12\/the-classic-colts.html\">Classic Colts <\/a>by our readers.\u00a0 His inclusion is over due, and definitely deserved.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1995, the Colts took a chance on a raw talent out of Bradley University, who didn&#8217;t play college football,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[703639887],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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