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The city of Indianapolis, Indiana has seen professional sports been the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Indianapolis, Indiana in its history has had only two major sports team, The Colts and the Pacers. The Colts are one of the original NFL teams. The franchise was moved to the city of Baltimore, Maryland back in the 1940’s. The Miami Seahawks moved to Baltimore and was dissolved a couple of years later, next the Dallas franchise relocated to Baltimore and thrived there until they moved to Indianapolis. They spent forty rollercoaster years in Baltimore helping the city to prosper as more than just a port town and also helped to establish the NFL as one of America’s favorite sports. Don Shula, Johnny Unitas, and Raymond Berry where some of the greatest coaches and players in history and they were involved in some of the greatest games in the history of not only the NFL but football period. The Colts carried the city of Baltimore into greatness when they won the greatest game ever played, the 1958 world championship over the New York Giants. In 1972, after the Colts won their first Super Bowl against the Cowboys, which is nicknamed the Blunder Bowl, the team was traded to Robert Irsay for the Los Angeles Rams franchise; Irsay family still owns the Colts franchise today. In 1984, then owner Robert Irsay, who was unhappy that is demands for the city of Baltimore to renovate the stadium has been denied, moved the Colts franchise to Indianapolis. Many fans in Baltimore still feel betrayed that their team snuck away in the middle of the night as they slept. For most of its time the Colts franchise in Indianapolis did not live up to its world champion reputation, having trouble making the playoffs and trading away hall of famers; Eric Dickerson and Marshall Faulk (indystar.com).