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Mar 29, 2019 · INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) — It happened 35 years ago on March 28. After negotiations to get get the city of Baltimore to pay for improvements to Memorial Stadium failed, Baltimore Colts owner Bob Irsay took things into his own hands.
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- Laying The Groundwork For The Colts’ Move to Indy
- Initial Expansion Efforts to Indianapolis Foiled in 1982
- The Colts Ride The Mayflower Van to Indy
Indianapolis Mayor Bill Hudnut helped lay the groundwork for a local professional football team when he took office in the mid-1970s. According to BizVoice Magazine’s Rebecca Patrick, Hudnut commissioned deputy mayor and lawyer David Frick to use amateur and professional sports to rejuvenate the Circle City. Hudnut and his staff eventually develope...
Alas, Indianapolis’ chances of having its own football team diminished considerably after Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis moved his franchise to Los Angeles prior to the strike-shortened 1982 NFL season. It was a double whammy for Hudnut and Co. – the litigations surrounding the Raiders’ move and the strike made it impossible for the NFL to expand t...
It turned out Hudnut’s next-door neighbor was Mayflower CEO John B. Smith. The latter agreed to move the Colts from Baltimore to Indy without charging Hudnut a single dime, per BizVoice Magazine. With hundreds of local reporters swarming the Colts’ facility in Baltimore, the team packed its bags and loaded them onto several Mayflower vans in late M...
American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, leader of the civil rights movement, and close friend and mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. He collaborated with King and E. D. Nixon to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, co-created and was an executive board member of SCLC; led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C., as well ...
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