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The tale of a football team leaving its own football team A hometown in the middle of night, and a bunch of people Mediocre jokes that will disturb constantly The plot.
So, back in the 1980s, the Baltimore Colts were the football team that is now the Indianapolis Colts, and they were owned by a guy named Robert Irsay, and I can't show you a photo of them all because they're copyrighted, so just imagine if Herbert Hoover and Babe Ruth had a very old and very angry boy
At Memorial Stadium, which was a difficult venue, the Colts played their games: it was a bad stadium on the one hand, but it wasn't a good stadium on the other.
10,000 seats had poor views, 20,000 seats were rusty benches without back support, 7,000 seats were all lousy bleachers moved in for football games, and all the seats were situated in a state whose flag looks like it feels like a seizure.
In order to fix the first three of those issues, Baltimore's urban designers suggested something called the Baltodome, which, disappointingly, wasn't going to be a massive concave homage to the second-best Siberian husky movie in the world, but rather a new $78 million stadium capable of holding up to 70,000 people
The proposal was endorsed by the owner of the Colts, the Baltimore Orioles, the Governor of Maryland, the Mayor of Baltimore, and even this stock-photo boy, but the project was not accepted by the Maryland legislature and, in 1974, by Baltimore. Comptroller Hyman Pressman also won an amendment to the city charter that prevented the use of any city funds to construct a new Baltimore stadium, a remarkably audacious move for a man with a name as dumb as Comptroller Hyman Pressman.
Tensions between Irsay and the city of Baltimore over a new stadium had gotten so bad by March 1984 that the owners of the NFL voted to grant the Colts permission to relocate to another city, but Baltimore's good people were desperate to retain their football team. Because, after all, we all love to do the thing where we relate our self-worth to how well at the end of the field the people wearing shirts with the name of the place we live in kick, hold, or throw the ball in that bit.
Therefore, the state legislature decided to take the dramatic steps to legally stop Irsay from pushing the Colts out of Baltimore by using eminent domain, which is the government's right to seize private property for public use.
After all, it was a fairly daring attempt to grab A football team was definitely not what James was like. When he inserted eminent domain into the Fifth Amendment, Madison was in mind.
But the amendments, on the other hand, are stupid. Just ask all the soldiers outside your house to live there. Anyway, the Maryland State Senate passed a law on March 27, 1984, granting Baltimore the right to take possession of the Colts only because he wanted it, which the Maryland House was supposed to approve in the next two days, until it was signed by the governor.
Was this a matter that the state should be Do you? Do you? Most definitely not, but because we started to think about dumb stuff like "abuses of power."
So, Robert Irsay chose to do so in response, The rational thing was that in the middle of the night, he wanted to smuggle an entire NFL team out of Baltimore as the Death Star plans were. Indianapolis, Indiana has been trying desperately to turn into a "great American city" for years.
They had a Cracker Barrel, a Hampton Inn & Suites, and an annual festival where cars turned 800 times to the left, so the football team was what they missed.
Conveniently, they had broken ground already Before they had any guarantee of the football team moving there in a giant stadium called the Hoosier dome in 1982, which is all to say that, on March 28, 1984, when Irsay called the mayor of Indianapolis to address the Colts moving there, it was practically like asking Hank Green to explain excitedly how anglerfish propagate by using a lot of jump cuts.
They'd been training for someone for years, In order to ask the very question. The Indianapolis mayor offered the Hoosier Dome, a $4 million training center, a $12.5 million loan, and a single, tender kiss on the check to be used by the Colts, and Robert Irsay agreed
Then, as in any absolutely above-board Governmental agreements, they completely told them, What had just happened, no one
At 10:00 pm that night, Irsay had a friend who ran a moving company secretly send 15 tractor-trailers to the Colts plant, out of concern that the state legislature would intensify the seizure of the Colts. Where the team and all their things were loaded up and then driven through the night, with each tractor-trailer taking a different route from Baltimore to Indianapolis to throw off the Maryland State Police if they were to try to apprehend the team.
The Indiana state police then met them at the border, escorting them to Indianapolis, where they arrived at 6:00 a.m., having accomplished the most audacious heist since Oceans 12 scammed me into buying a $14 movie ticket.
Later that day, the Maryland State House passed the legislation seizing the Colts, and it was signed by the Governor, but it was too late.
Of course, the citizens of Baltimore were saddened by the loss of their football team, but football would finally return to the city 12 years later, in 1996, when the Cleveland Browns did a similar thing and left Cleveland for Baltimore.
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