Weeb Ewbank left, too

[HouseofUsher]

It’s funny but I think I fell for the Colts after they left town. Like a detective with a hard on for a dead girl he never laid eyes on, I followed the epic, unfolding horror conscientiously. It haunts me a little still.

I had just moved into Baltimore, after nibbling around its edges for years, and was in complete awe of the size of the emotion seizing this odd, odd city I wanted so badly to know. The glacial hopelessness of its grief. The vastness of its undeserved inferiority. It felt like one man had brought down an entire civilization. Outsiders couldn’t understand; only an outsider could understand.

I remember driving through Indianapolis on a family trip out West when I was a kid. Just a hot, dusty town sitting stupidly on the plains. Look at the speedway, get some gas, keep moving. Yes, now they have the Colts, the colors, the horseshoe. But that’s it. No matter what anyone says in either city, history stayed right here on March 29, 1984. They never got that. Everything that ever mattered with the Colts, happened right here. And nothing has happened since. All the color, the feeling, stayed right here. Even the marching band. All they got were some empty uniforms. They never even really got the Colts. You can see they know it in their empty eyes, hear it in their hollow cheers. Perhaps they are to be pitied, too.

Anyone who cares about sports knows how fleeting the moment of glory is: but defeat, defeat lasts forever. The only things that are real are the memories.

Maybe if we beat them on Saturday, we’ll both be released.

[ravenwoman]

I am not mad at any person from Indianapolis, except maybe their stupid mayor back in 1984. They couldn't help what took place.

If they do feel hollow, its because their team in a sense is borrowed or stolen. It's not home grown, the name and the colors are from Maryland. Had they changed the name and started anew, then they could feel good about their football history. Could we feel good here in Baltimore, if we were the Baltimore Browns? The name even sounds corny. But we are the Ravens, the Baltimore Ravens and nobody can steal our name, our colors and our history.

The only thing Saturday will do is prove the Ravens are a better team and that when you *steal* or covet something that doesn't belong to you, you end up paying for your sins.

[RAVENOUS52]

Both posts were excellent and stir emotions in me that I thought were long dead. I'm over the loss of the team and I don't blame the fans in Indy for the loss. It's just the fact that the legacy and heritage that helped shape the budding NFL was built on the back of Unitas, Berry, Lenny Moore and others who played in BALTIMORE. Honor that fact by giving the name, colors and records of those pioneers back to the place they belong.

[Pitt_Ravens]

Honor that fact by giving the name, colors and records of those pioneers back to the place they belong.


Agreed, it kills me to hear that Peyton has just passed Johnny U on the team for something. No he did not. That is our horseshoe. The other day I watched some commercial for an Indy DVD, in which Johnny U morphed into Peyton - it made me sick. :(

I was in grade school when the Colts left, but I still have the Colt stories from my grandfather and uncles. Just give us back our history and become the Indy Motors or something

[VaRaven]

I am not mad at any person from Indianapolis, except maybe their stupid mayor back in 1984. They couldn't help what took place.
He lives in Chevy Chase now if you want to write him a letter!

[ravenwoman]

See, even the stupid mayor lives in Maryland now. I wonder if he is a Colts fan, a Redskins fan or God Help us a Ravens fan. S.O.B.!