Col. Nathan R. Jessep wrote:PonyPride wrote:Nobody in the Hunt family ever stole a team from a city as loyal and passionate as Baltimore.
Pony Pride, are you even old enough to remember those great Dallas Texans?
Barely. I do, but not much about them. I did, however, have cousins who were Baltimore Colts season ticket holders, and when the pictures appeared in the paper the day Irsay skipped town with his team under the cover of night fall -- it was discovered only when the media showed up for a press conference at a completely empty facility -- they stopped watching NFL football. Seriously .... not a single game since, and that was what, 1986 or something? They will not even utter the name "Irsay," or the words "Colts" or "Indianapolis." Ironically, one of those cousins went to grad school in Cleveland and was there when Art Modell stole the Browns from that city, and he said the heartache in Cleveland didn't compare to the "emotional assault" he claims Irsay inflicted on the city on Baltimore. I don't hold his son responsible, of course, and like I said, any scholarship to SMU is a good thing.