People, like Paul Taglafag, just looked at the image of Baltimore City during that time (The inventors of Crack and Aids in my opinion Lol) and thought it was not suited for football.

I’m not one to talk, but let go of the Colts name I think. If the program was not moved, you older gentlemen may have just experience Cleveland like football for a long time. Ouch.

We have our boys now, and there is no looking back.

I think I wouldn’t even care about all this were it not for the name and colors. That’s what the real loss was. Irsay was an alcoholic and a boor, and he and his family are a living memorial that accountability is the domain of the poor and middle class. On that level, good riddance.

It’s incredibly weird that we had to move an established franchise to Baltimore in order to have an NFL team, but it was to be expected given the closeness of Tagliabue and Jack Kent Cooke.

Still I Bristle every time I hear the Baltimore Colts of old linked to the current franchise in Indianapolis, or remember that Johnny U is listed with his fellow players in the Hall of Fame as an “Indianapolis Colt,” despite the consistent requests by his family to correct the situation.

…was like rubbing salt in the wound. Losing a team is hard, but to lose our legacy… to see Johnny Unitas in Indianapolis’ hall of fame… it was unforgivable. All of the trailer-trash Browns fans can try to relate the loss of their pathetic franchise to ours, but it just rings of shallowness.

It was an offense that no Baltimore fan will forget.

I grew up watching the Colts and was crushed when they left in ’84. But my anger was directed at Bob Irsay. With his descending into the burning gates of hell, and seeing that, unlike his Dad, Jimmy Irsay is a class act, the anger has subsided. I am over it.
We have our Ravens. We have had great ownership with Art Modell and now with Steve Bisciotti. We have a great, new football only stadium. So I prefer to focus my passion on the Purple that I now love and and not waste it on hatred of someone who does not even deserve that much.
I LOVE THE RAVENS!
I would only hope that someday the NFL will record history based upon the city where it occurred and not deny Baltimore what is rightfully ours. It does still hurt seeing our history co-opted in the record books.

Ran the team into the ground is why no one showed up. Indy’s franchise was a failure until his son took over.
If someone tries to sell you shit in a bag as popcorn your still going to eat it?
Well i gues you would.

To truely appretiate the Colts. I was 4 when they left. My grandfather was a city cop who worked security at the games and would grab beers with the team after the games. My anger was having to grow up with out a football team here because of Tagliabu. We have our team. Let them have theirs.

I don’t hate the Indies anymore. I used to with a passion but with Bob rotting in the ground, I really don’t think he is worth the time anymore. Maybe if we still didn’t have a team, I still would. I never really hated on Indy fans…they had to put up with a lot of lean years under Bob. His son seems to be the exact opposite of Mike Brown in that he comes from piss poor stock and seems to understand the nuances of the game where as Mike Brown seems to want to piss on everything that was his father, Paul Brown. I am still bitter at the NFL giving teams to Carolina and Jacksonville over us. It still to this day makes no sense to me unless Paul Tagliabue was raped or something in Baltimore and blamed the entire city for it. I think the whole “The Media and the NFL is against us” mentality that seems to inflict every Ravens fan is a direct result of Paul just fucking with us year in and year out.

I still wish we hadn’t had to travel the route we did to get a team. If the NFL had recognized and worked to fix Modell’s situation and realized that the Baltimore area was a prime location for a new NFL franchise, the Browns would not have had to move. I completely understand the bitterness of the Brown fanbase and the fact that Art found success here, relatively quickly sure as hell doesn’t make it easier for them to swallow. The NFL does a lot of things right…but the whole situation involving Baltimore over the years has resulted in two fanbases getting screwed. I am hard pressed to think of a way that they could have fucked Baltimore more over the years…I mean come on…CFL…that was like watching a porno staring my sister…no real talent and half assed….

dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind, so don’t hang on

I feel we need to let go of the hate and move forward. We need to forget and grow. Let go and let God. This team has given us alot over the years and we need to return the favor. By that I mean holding on to an old grudge is negative engery. That energy doesn’t need to be in our stadium on game day. We need to project positive energy so our team can feel us. They will strive that much harder when they cna feel positive energy on the gridiron. Which will generate more wins, which will have us SuperBowl bound again. It’s time for change, it’s a new day, new season. Let the RAVENS know we are here for them! POSITIVE ATTITUDES AND ENERGY= SUPERBOWL