The Indianapolis Colts Information
The Indianapolis Colts are a National Football League team
based in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Founded: 1953 after NFL gave Baltimore remains of the original
Dallas Texans
There had been a previous Colts team in the NFL in 1950, after
joining the NFL from the All-American Football Conference
Formerly known as: Baltimore Colts (1953-1983)
Home field: RCA Dome
Previous home field: Memorial Stadium (Baltimore) (1953-1983)
Uniform colors: blue and white
Helmet design: white background, blue horseshoe
League championships won: NFL: 1958, 1959, 1968, 1970.
Super Bowl appearances: World Championship Super Bowl III (lost),
NFL Championship Super Bowl V (won)
Conference AFC
Division South
Founded 1953
Home Field RCA Dome
City Indianapolis, Indiana
Colors Blue and white
Head Coach Tony Dungy
All-Time Record (W-L-T)
(At Start of 2005 Season) 389-390-7
Indianapolis
Colts History
In 1953, Carroll Rosenbloom became the principal owner of the
new NFL Baltimore Colts. In 1958, coached by Hall of Famer Weeb
Ewbank, the Colts defeated the New York Giants 23-17 in the
NFL championship game, an overtime contest sometimes called
"The Greatest Game Ever Played." The Colts repeated
as NFL champions in 1959, beating the Giants again, 31-16. In
the early 1960s the Colts continued as an elite NFL team although
they lost the NFL championship game in 1964 to the Cleveland
Browns, 27-0.
The 1967 Colts entered the final week of the regular season
undefeated, but then a 34-10 loss to the Rams at Los Angeles
kept them out of the playoffs as the result gave both teams
a final record of 11-1-2, with the Rams being awarded first
place in the Western Conference's Coastal Division because they
won the head-to-head series (the first meeting between the two
teams, at Baltimore, ended in a 24-24 tie).
In 1968, after a 13-1 season, they gained a measure of revenge
against the Browns, defeating them 34-0 in the NFL championship
game. The 13-1 regular season and the trouncing of the Browns
led NFL-based media to call the Colts "the greatest pro
football team of all time". The Colts went into Super Bowl
III (the first in the series to officially be called the Super
Bowl) against the American Football League's New York Jets as
17-point favorites, with NFL icons like Pro Bowlers Bobby Boyd
(db), Mike Curtis (lb), John Mackey (te), Tom Matte (rb), Fred
Miller (dl), Earl Morrall (qb), Willie Richardson (wr), and
Bob Vogel (ol).
The result of the game was one of the greatest upsets in sports
history as Joe Namath and Matt Snell led the American Football
League champion Jets to a World Championship over the NFL's
Colts, 16-7. Ironically, the Jets were coached by Weeb Ewbank,
who had previously led the Colts to two NFL titles.
Rosenbloom, Art Modell (Browns), and Art Rooney (Steelers)
facilitated the NFL merger with the American Football League,
by joining the ten AFL teams in the AFC. After the NFL merged
with the AFL in 1970, the Colts moved to the American Football
Conference (AFC) and won the AFC championship against the Oakland
Raiders 27-17. Baltimore went on to win the first post-merger
Super Bowl (Super Bowl V) against the NFC's Dallas Cowboys 16-13,
on a Jim O'Brien field goal. Since there was only one league
after 1969, the Colts' 1970 Super Bowl win was the NFL championship,
as were all Super Bowls thereafter.
On July 13, 1972, Rosenbloom traded the Colts to Robert Irsay
for the Los Angeles Rams, but the players remained in their
same respective cities. The Colts made the playoffs four more
times in the 1970s - a wild card in 1972 and three consecutive
AFC East titles in 1975 through 1977 (led in these latter years
by the NFL's best defensive line, known colloquially as the
"Sack Pack"), but then endured nine consecutive losing
seasons beginning in 1978, a year which saw the club get shut
out in its first two games - a fate which has befallen no NFL
team since. In 1981, the defense was the main problem: The Colts
allowed an NFL-record 533 points, and also set an all-time record
for fewest sacks (13) and a modern record for fewest punt returns
(12). The following year the offense collapsed: On November
28, 1982, the Colts' offense did not cross mid-field in an entire
game, played at Buffalo against the Bills; this would not happen
again in an NFL game until 2000. The Colts also finished 0-8-1
in 1982, only nine games having been played that year due to
a 57-day players' strike; no NFL team has since neglected to
win a game in an entire season.
Faced with the aforementioned competitive difficulties and
wanting a new stadium, team owner Robert Irsay moved the team
to Indianapolis in Mayflower trucks in the middle of the night
on March 29, 1984, after the Maryland legislature threatened
to give the city of Baltimore the right to seize the team by
eminent domain. Since 1987, the Colts have had mixed success
at best. They have appeared in the playoffs seven years since
then, with their best advance to the AFC championship game in
1995, when they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers 20-16, and in
2003, when they won the AFC South Division title, defeated the
Denver Broncos in the wild-card playoff, and advanced to play
the Kansas City Chiefs in a divisional playoff, winning 38-31.
In the AFC Championship game, they were defeated 24-14 by the
eventual Super Bowl champions, the New England Patriots; the
defeat prevented Tony Dungy from becoming the first African
American head coach ever to lead a team to the Super Bowl.
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