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50 years ago Sunday, the Colts and Giants game changed football forever
Tribune reporterIt was pro football's Big Bang, the game that forever blew away the old order of American sports and helped form a new landscape for players, fans and business, particularly television. On Dec. 28, 1958 — 50 years ago Sunday — the Baltimore...Tags: New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Weeb Ewbank, Johnny Unitas, Bert Bell
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Black & white
Lenny Lyles is not a bitter man. In fact, it pains him to tell this story. He hesitates, knowing how it will sound. He was a different man in 1960, frustrated and angry, and it was a very different time in America. But the guilt hasn't totally faded....Tags: New York Giants, National or Ethnic Minorities, Society, Johnny Unitas, National Football League
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In 50 years since, nothing like 'The Greatest Game Ever Played'
It matters not that their gaits are slowed and frames stooped, the result of ancient wounds and the passing of decades. These former Baltimore Colts - the 1958 Baltimore Colts - are arrested in the collective mind's eye of generations of football fans...Tags: New York Giants, Baltimore Orioles, Super Bowl, M&T Bank Stadium, Johnny Unitas
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See the game on ESPN
ESPN probably can't envision pro football without Plaxico Burress, Brett Favre or Chris Berman, so it figures Berman would lend his overbearing presence to "The Greatest Game," an ESPN/NFL Films examination of the 1958 Colts-Giants NFL title game...Tags: New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Brett Favre, Johnny Unitas, ESPN
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'Greatest' came from NFL's best
On Dec.28, 1958, the NFL's best offense and defense, its finest quarterback, its best possession receiver and big-play threat, its most dominant defensive lineman and prototype offensive tackles, its best-rounded linebacker and its most promising...Tags: New York Giants, Weeb Ewbank, Johnny Unitas, National Football League, Bruce Smith
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Ex-Colts connecting again
Look at the picture, taken in a dime-store photo booth in 1955. What do you see? A black-and-white snapshot of black and white buddies hanging out - in black-and-white, segregated times. They seem an odd pair. One wears a wide smile, a starched shirt...Tags: Ethics, Physical Fitness, Justice and Rights, Society, Maryland
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Stadium full of memories at age 10
Baltimore Sun reporterIt seemed a rare and perfect opportunity to take revenge on history. Twenty-three years after the Colts had abandoned Baltimore, they were on their way back for a playoff game. A 13-3 Ravens team lay in wait with the franchise's typical great defense...Tags: Ray Lewis, Pittsburgh Steelers, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Minnesota Vikings, Steve McNair
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Colts' unsung center Nutter dies at 77
Sun reporterThe autograph signing featuring the Baltimore Colts at the Towson Center on March 29 turned out to be a final show of warmth for Madison "Buzz" Nutter. Nutter, the starting center on the Colts' NFL championship teams of 1958 and 1959, died Saturday of...Tags: Pittsburgh Steelers, New York Giants, Washington Redskins, Roman Catholic, Death and Dying
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Tackle who made daylight in '58
Sun ReporterIn a photo capturing the most famous moment of George Preas' football career, he's not even there. The picture, from 1958, shows Colts fullback Alan Ameche blasting through a hole for the winning touchdown in Baltimore's 23-17 sudden-death NFL...Tags: New York Giants, Weeb Ewbank, Death and Dying, National Football League, Football
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The unknown Unitas
Tomorrow marks 50 years since anyone was given even a glimpse of what was in store. In Chicago, at Wrigley Field, on Oct. 21, 1956: Ligaments in George Shaw's right knee popped. As he was dragged off the field, a baby-faced kid from Western Pennsylvania,...Tags: High School Sports, Joe Montana, Max Carey, Johnny Unitas, National Football League
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NFL neglect of Mackey belongs in hall of shame
Just the other day, John had to be picked up early from the day care center. He had found some candy, and then he went roaming through cabinets looking for some more. At some point, others saw what John had and then they wanted some candy, too. Only...Tags: Medical Research, Newspaper and Magazine, National Football League, Health Treatments, Baltimore Ravens
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Family, friends and fans remember football great
Sun StaffBlue and white were the dominant colors at Jim Parker's funeral yesterday. He lay in a blue casket, which stood in a sea of blue and white floral arrangements, one a Baltimore Colts horseshoe and another bearing his jersey number, 77. Blue and white were...Tags: Death and Dying, Johnny Unitas, National Football League, Martin O'Malley, Football
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