- Home field: Nissan Stadium
- Coach: Frank Reich
- Offensive star – RB Jonathan Taylor
- Defensive star – LB Shaquille Leonard
- 2021 Season: Failed to Make Playoffs
- Super Bowls – won 1970, 2006.
- Greatest Player – QB Steve McNair
- Factoid: The Colts and Patriots are the only two NFL teams to have lost
- six Super Bowls.
If you believe in karma, then the Colts will never, ever win another
Super Bowl. Because even though fans in Baltimore have completely
embraced and supported the Ravens, those who were born before
Eighties will never, ever forget March 29, 1984.
That was the morning when 14 Mayflower Transit moving vans, which
had shown up in the middle of the night outside the franchise’s
Maryland training facility, left with every piece of Colts equipment.
And a huge piece of every Baltimore football fan’s hearts.
The Baltimore Colts became the Indianapolis Colts.
They won their second Super Bowl in 2007 and have only been back
once. They have a roster that is certainly capable of getting to the Big
Game but that bad karma hangs over of the Colts like an early-morning
Indiana fog.
It doesn’t help that the owner, Jim Irsay, is the son of former owner
Robert Irsay, who after trying to get Baltimore to pay for a new
stadium, moved his team in the middle of the night. Dark karma? You
bet.
The good folks in Indianapolis and throughout the state have embraced
the Colts, as the fans in Baltimore once did. They have a classy coach in
Frank Reich and an outstanding GM in Chris Ballard. And speaking of
class, they traded for QB Matt Ryan, who is exactly the kind of leader
every team wants.
You might say that it’s time for bygones to be bygones; that more than
30 years have gone by since the Colts went from the Mid Atlantic to the
Heartland. But the owner, Jim Irsay, is the son of former owner, Robert
Irsay, who pulled off the midnight bolt.
Talk about Dark Karma.