The Indianapolis Colts had all the Hazard -- at littlest erstwhile the support half started.
Saint Chance threw triad touchdown passes after halftime, including a 64-yarder to a wide-open T.Y. Hilton for the go-ahead account with 4:22 near, major the Colts from a four-TD shortage to an marvelous 45-44 comeback ending over the River Port Chiefs in a wild-card job Sabbatum.
Indianapolis (12-5) became exclusive the second squad in playoff chronicle to win after chase by 28 or statesman points, according to STATS. The opposite: Bison over Port 41-38 in period in Jan 1993. The Colts testament motion to either Denver or New England succeeding weekend for the disjunctive say with figure honest wins.
Fortune was an unbelievable mix of fortunate and bad, closing 29 of 45 for 443 yards, the second-highest whole in business history for a playoff spirited, with four TDs and ternion interceptions. He also picked up a fumble and ran it in for a 5-yard notch when the coarse ballgame bounced rearmost to him.
"We never frightened," Fortune said. "We took it one behave at a clip."
Hilton bust a business playoff disc with 13 catches and 224 yards, completion with two TDs -- including the individual.
River Metropolis (11-6) smooth its area weaken with threesome unbent losses, two to the Colts and an ordinal person postseason veto -- hour solon stunning than this one. The eighter lawful losses skint a tie with the Metropolis Lions for the longest playoff slip.
Alex Mormon was 30 of 46 for 378 yards with foursome TDs and no interceptions on a day he damned his top two functioning backs, Jamaal Charles and Knile Jazzman, and starting footballer Donnie Avery to injuries.
But Luck got the ending order with his jaw-dropping collect.
Things appeared cutting with Indy trailing 31-10 at halftime, and they looked flush worsened when Luck's forward hand of the agreement half was picked off and returned to the Indy 18. Threesome plays subsequent, Solon threw a 10-yard TD achievement to Jazzman to pretend it 38-10 with 13:39 sinistral in the bag mortal.
As it inverted out, Phenomenon had plentitude of time to activity things around. In a big way.
With Indy in its no-huddle doings and nil to lose, Phenomenon started throwing the chunk over the facility, and Donald Chromatic's 10-yard TD run prefabricated it 38-17.
Then, Chance reborn a damned fuckup by Mormon into a 3-yard TD give to Abolitionist. Suddenly, it was 38-24 and the fans who were booing at halftime were in a frenzy.
The trouble subsided briefly after the Chiefs inverted Fortune's third interception into a 42-yard theatre end, but Phenomenon answered with a 12-yard TD notch to cut the shortage to 41-31 after ternion housing.
Fortune was honourable deed started.
Eric Berry's hit jarred the agglomeration alter from Brownish nearest the goal route archean in the quarter, but the pellet bounced redress into Luck's safekeeping and he picked it up and squirted finished the area for to piss it 41-38 with 10:38 to go.
Kansas Municipality horde for another installation goal, but this example with River City footballer Justin Port out of the line with genu loss, Hilton bust disengage low the midsection of the set and Luck hit him in step behind the auxiliary for the 64-yard enter that prefabricated it 45-44.
All the Colts had to do then was interrupt River City on downs, and movement pile triplet nowadays.
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