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Speaker 1: It's been forty years since the Colts packed up in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the night and moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis.

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Speaker 1: But why exactly did the Colts leave Baltimore and how

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Speaker 1: did they end up in Indianapolis. I'm JJ Stankowitz, and

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Speaker 1: over four episodes of The Move, a new podcast I'm

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Speaker 1: hosting on the Colts Audio Network, we will answer those

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Speaker 1: questions about maybe the most infamous move in American professional

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Speaker 1: sports history. You'll hear from those who lived it, including

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Speaker 1: jim irsay, Rick Venturi, John Zeeman, Debbie Knox, Tom Griswold,

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Speaker 1: and several others. In Baltimore, if you were a cult player,

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Speaker 1: you were king.

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Speaker 2: The Baltimore Colts established the NFL. To go back and

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Speaker 2: look at those three years where they had a really

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Speaker 2: good team, About half the games were sold out, a

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Speaker 2: lot of games to forty five thousand, Memorial Stadium was shot,

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Speaker 2: And again I reiterate, that's the only thing I'll agree.

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Speaker 3: With the bother saying this went on for years. The

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Speaker 3: tale of the team.

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Speaker 2: We were told, don't go anywhere this weekend because we're

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Speaker 2: probably going to become the Arizona Colts when Indianapolis shows up.

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Speaker 2: You're like, they're not an NFL city, how can they

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Speaker 2: take this team? The nickname was Knaptown, which was that

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Speaker 2: sleepy little town in Indiana. It was the Inny five hundred,

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Speaker 2: and it was basketball when they.

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Speaker 1: First started talking about building the dome and and all

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Speaker 1: that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: And you're kind of like, yeah, right, okay, you don't

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Speaker 2: have a team. Really, what's this going to look like?

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Speaker 2: So I called my dad in the morning. Dad, Frank

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Speaker 2: and I are in Indianapolis. What do we do?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: What are you doing in Indianapolis? What the hell is

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Speaker 2: going on?

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Speaker 3: I go?

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Speaker 2: You told me to go to Indianapolis with Frank Hush.

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Speaker 3: I saw my father cry twice in his life. My

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Speaker 3: father was born in nineteen nineteen. He died in ninety two.

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Speaker 3: I saw him cry when his sister died, and I

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Speaker 3: saw him cry when the Colts left down.

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Speaker 2: The truth is he had to move there threatening them

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Speaker 2: in at domain.

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Speaker 1: There no stadium deal to go that was even close

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Speaker 1: to being worthwhile.

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Speaker 2: So you had to move.

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Speaker 3: I told you how angry it made me just to

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Speaker 3: see the worship.

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Speaker 1: People were cheering.

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Speaker 2: Everything that would cheer. Everything didn't matter. It was clear

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Speaker 2: to all I knew was a had an NFL team.

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Speaker 1: The first episode of the Move, which explores the rise

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Speaker 1: and fall of the Baltimore Colts, will be released on Monday,

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Speaker 1: June twenty fourth. Subscribe to the Colts Audio Network on

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