Baltimore has had 2 professional football clubs before the Ravens:
NFL - Baltimore Colts
CFL - Baltimore Stallions
NFL - Baltimore Ravens
All 3 teams won championships in their respective leagues.
There was an All American Football Conference team, also called the Baltimore Colts, that joined the NFL (along with the Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers) in 1950 when the AAFC folded. That team went 1-11 in 1950 and folded following the season when the owner, Abe Watner, sold the team back to the NFL for $50,000.
Hall of Famers George Blanda, Y.A. Tittle, and Art Donovan played for the 1950 Baltimore Colts.
Before the Colts moved to Indianapolis from Baltimore, they did not have an NFL team.
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The Colts left Baltimore in 1984.
The Baltimore Colts had the first cheerleading squad in the NFL.
My guess would be the COLTS, for the way they fled Baltimore in the middle of the night....
Before the Colts moved to Indianapolis from Baltimore, they did not have an NFL team.
The Colts (NFL team) play for Indianapolis, Indiana.
The Baltimore Colts
The Baltimore Colts.
1996, Baltimore used to have the Colts.
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In 1953. They joined the league as the Baltimore Colts and moved to Indianapolis in 1984.
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The Baltimore Ravens were the former Cleveland Browns
There was not an NFL team there until the Colts moved from Baltimore.
Before the Indianapolis Colts, they were founded as the Baltimore Colts in 1953. -sportsmedia101.com