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When the Colts and Baltimore play and they show that tape of the van pulling out in the snowy night, it's just getting Mayflower back on TV. Thirty years, it's been happening like that.
BALTIMORE - The Mayflower moving vans driving away remain a strong image engrained in old-time fans of the Baltimore Colts. It took 12 years of football away from Baltimore. On March 28, 1984, 39 ...
It was Johnny B. Smith, Mayflower CEO and chairman. Russell, president of Mayflower's moving operations, had to return to the office immediately. The Colts were coming.
Many longtime Baltimore football fans say they forgive the Colts, but they will never forget.
The franchise that meant so much to Baltimore had its equipment and office furniture carried away in a fleet of Mayflower vans. It was with a touch of irony, then, that early on this Sunday ...
The Colts’ Mayflower Trucks / The MMQB presents NFL 95, a special project—unveiled every Wednesday from May through July—detailing 95 artifacts that tell the story of the NFL, as the league ...
The man who helped the Colts secretly move from Baltimore to Indianapolis recalls that day 35 years ago.
March 29, 1984. If you were in Baltimore, you'll never forget what happened on that night--the snow, the Mayflower vans, a city left with a broken heart.
BALTIMORE -- Saturday marks the 30th anniversary of the most infamous day in Baltimore sports history.On March 29, 1984, the Colts sneaked out of Baltimore on a snowy night and left a football ...
The Colts' clandestine move was hatched with the help of then-Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut, whose next-door neighbor happened to be the late Mayflower president John B. Smith. Smith called the ...
Such was the case on March 28, 1984, when the Colts, then based in Baltimore, made a surprise move overnight to Indianapolis.