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February, 18 2012
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Indianapolis Colts Team History
 In
1953, the city of Baltimore was awarded a new National Football
League franchise. The team was nicknamed the Colts, the second
pro football club to bear that name in a seven-year period.
Earlier in 1947, a Baltimore Colts team was founded in the All-America
Football Conference. Three years later, as part of the peace
agreement between the AAFC and NFL, the Colts became an NFL
member. But this venture failed and the franchise was disbanded
after the 1950 season.
But Baltimore was presented with a second chance for an NFL
team three seasons later when the Dallas Texans franchise was
cancelled by the league. NFL Commissioner Bert Bell challenged
the city to sell 15,000 season tickets within six weeks. The
successful sale took just over four weeks and, on January 23,
1953, Carroll Rosenbloom became the principal owner of the new
Baltimore Colts.
In 1954, Weeb Ewbank was named the Colts' head coach and he
began a steady building program that put his team over .500
for the first time in 1957. The Colts didn't have another losing
season for the next 14 years. Powered by a sensational young
quarterback, Johnny Unitas, and a strong supporting cast that
included such future Pro Football Hall of Famers as Artie Donovan,
Gino Marchetti, Raymond Berry, Lenny Moore and Jim Parker, the
Colts won NFL championships in both 1958 and 1959 and again
in 1968.
The 1958 NFL title clash against the New York Giants, played
before the largest television audience ever up to that time,
did much to increase fan enthusiasm for pro football. With Unitas
craftily engineering long drives that led to the tying field
goal and winning touchdown, the Colts won 23-17 in overtime.
Both the Colts and Ewbank were involved in a second game 10
years later that would share ranking as a pivotal game in creating
far-reaching fan enthusiasm. The game was Super Bowl III and
the Ewbank-led New York Jets stunned the heavily-favored Colts
16-7.
Under Don Shula, who replaced Ewbank in 1963, the Colts won
NFL Western conference championships in 1964 and 1968. Shula
moved to Miami in 1970 but the Colts, who had moved to the new
American Football Conference at the time of the merger, won
the first AFC Eastern division title and Super Bowl V.
Baltimore, with Ted Marchibroda as coach, won three straight
divisional titles in 1975, 1976 and 1977. The franchise then
fell on hard times with a 19-53-1 record in the five years between
1978 and 1982.
Robert Irsay, who acquired the Los Angeles Rams franchise in
1972, engineered an historic trade of teams with Carroll Rosenbloom
that year. Twelve years later on March 28, 1984, Irsay moved
the Colts to Indianapolis, where they now play in the RCA Dome.
The Indianapolis Colts won the AFC East title in 1987 and 1999,
and the AFC South in 2003 and 2004. |
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The NFL folded its development league
in Europe after 16 years Friday.
The decision was made so the league could put a stronger international focus
season games outside the United States.
The announcement came less than a week after the Hamburg Sea Devils beat the
28 in the World Bowl championship in Frankfurt before a
crowd of 48,125. Five of the league's six teams were based in Germany, while
the other was in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
season games outside the
United States. The first such game is October 28 in London, England between
the Miami Dolphins and the New York Giants.
focus the NFL's strategy on initiatives with global
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