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Request a DemoHow Gov. Daniels built Indy’s NFL stadium

Dusk shot of Lucas Oil Stadium, home of the Indianapolis Colts NFL team, in Indianapolis. (Credit: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.)
INDIANAPOLIS —The mammoth NFL gridiron sprawling out across this city’s southern flank has long been called “the house that Peyton Manning built,” a tribute to the Hall of Fame Colts quarterback. But it was a man who stood nearly a foot shorter and, perhaps, 75 pounds lighter, who really was responsible for building Lucas Oil ...