WYPR Sports "Now and Then" April 2009 The 25th Anniversary Of The Colts Move To Indianapolis
It's not out of the ordinary for sports fans to liken their love for the area team to that of a family.
The kids in the stands and on the team grow up, age and eventually move on, but the basic familial bond never changes. Or so they hope.
Baltimoreans woke up on a snowy early spring morning 25 years ago to find that the Colts, a part of the family for two generations, had fled the area for Indianapolis.
It would be difficult, if not impossible to overstate the emotional fallout of seeing the team that produced Unitas, Berry, Moore, Donovan and Marchetti in a new city, but wearing the Baltimore family crest, the blue horseshoes on a white helmet.
I'm Milton Kent, and in this edition of Sports Now and Then, we'll talk to a former Colt, as well as journalists and fans about what was lost when Baltimore lost its football team and a part of its civic family 25 years ago.
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WYPR Sports "Now and Then" July 2008
The American Basketball Association was born in 1967, and was put out of its misery nine years later. But its impact on pro basketball, and on the entire landscape of sports in America, lives on today. The NBA didn’t adopt the ABA’s iconic red, white and blue ball, but the upstart league did create a new way to play the game. The ABA blew up the old rules on how to build franchises, opened up new territories for the sport, and in the past year, provided rich, comic material for the movie Semi-Tough. It even made two ABA team owners rich into perpetuity – simply by signing their names, sitting back and cashing hundreds of millions of dollars in checks for the next 32 years.
The ABA comes back to life, on Sports: Now and Then.
