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Thread: Anyone remember the 1977 season?
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12-17-2012, 10:44 PM #14Pro Bowl Poster
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It was a fumble....
Here is 20min NFL Films highlight show of the 77 Colts/Pats game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ1fQc7roYY
Its probably my 1st football memory --- really foggy (was only almost 6 at the time). I remember this game, Ghost to the Post, and the 78 MNF Joe Washington game against the Pats. My only good Colts memories (I guess Ghost to the Post wasnt a great result, but I was excited listening to it on the radio with my Dad)
My Colts experience was bad teams (78-83) without really any hope for success. Some of these Ravens fans should remember that time and be pretty damn thankfully that this 5years of Ravens playoff football is pretty damn special.Last edited by ravensnhokies; 12-17-2012 at 10:52 PM.
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AMEN!
Even when the Ravens lose it's an adventure and a hell of a lot better than 12 years of Sundays w/o pro football.
I usually took a nap-l0l.
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12-18-2012, 12:00 AM #16Hall Of Fame Poster
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Just watched the 20 min video of this game. Was this game televised because I think I may have watched it. I had to be 8 years old at the time
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12-18-2012, 12:33 AM #18
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Ted was a terrible coach, that team could of been so much better. He held them back. Then we fire Belichick when the Browns moved to Baltimore and hire is dumb old arse. In the playoff game I remember a 3rd and 19 Oakland converted by the length of the ball on our 43 to the 26 in OT, terrible pass coverage left the center of the feild wide open for Branch. Had the DC called the right defense with an extra DB in the secondary their might not have been a score and history different.
Biggest difference in football then and now is the QB's are allowed to get away with grounding now, not back then. That has really changed the game moreso than any rule. When football was football.
Oddly enough Marchibroda brought Baltimore good luck, he was kept by Pittsburgh and then they released Unitas then we scooped him up.
Football coaches are far from rocket scientists.
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12-18-2012, 06:05 AM #20Regular 1st Stringer
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Great memories I remember the ghost to the post game. It was Christmas Eve, which led to a lousy Christmas. I remember most of all the 1975 Dolphin and Pats games at the end of the year. Colts had to win both to get into the playoffs. The Dolphins game featured the overtime kick in the fog to win the game. From the upper deck at Memorial stadium, you could not see the ball go through the uprights. But the Pats '75 game was the most fun. Back then the end zone where the outfield bleachers were was open to the field. They would put rope as a barrier, but it obviously did not stop anyone. In the third quarter there were hundreds of people lined around the endzone watching the game like you might see at a Rec league football game. By the 4th quarter thousands had surrounded the entire field and was watching the game from the sidelines. I actually stood on the Pats bench to watch the end of it. I actually talked to a Pats lineman during the game. Surprisingly no one went on the field during the game, but at the end everyone stormed the field and tore down the goal posts. I believe parts of the goalposts ended up at the Stadium Lounge.
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12-18-2012, 08:48 AM #21Veteran Poster
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Wow. Thanks for finding this. This was my first ever Colt game. I went with my Dad. Don't remember much. Remember the fog/rain, and I remember the non-fumble. He had gotten our tickets from a bar on the Baltimore/Catonsville line (Iampieris) and we had taken a school bus to the game. On the way home, through the neighborhoods, I remember people coming out of their homes in celebration of the win and rocking the bus...it was crazy. Ironically, when I started going to Ravens games in the late 90s, my buddies and I did the same thing: took the "Iamps bus"...good times.
My Colts experience was bad teams (78-83) without really any hope for success. Some of these Ravens fans should remember that time and be pretty damn thankfully that this 5years of Ravens playoff football is pretty damn special.
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12-18-2012, 09:44 AM #22
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Couldn't get to the game; my family had gone to the UK for a couple of weeks, and so we found ourselves in London. Turns out our rental flat had a radio which could pick up the broadcast. (Would there have been a broadcast on Short Wave, or could AM radio make it across the Atlantic? My hazy memory tells me there was a SW broadcast of NFL playoff games...) So my father and I sat in a room above a cheap Hampstead bakery, following the game.
Unhappy we lost, but happy we could tune in.
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12-18-2012, 10:03 AM #23Regular 1st Stringer
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Ut-Oh I remember that season. I also remember that somehow that loss helped the Colts get into the playoffs because of the tie breaking rules that
at that time helped if the Colts lost the game. Rules were later changed. Will go back and research it but that loss stays in mind because the blocked punt was odd looking... Yes I was at that game. Started going regularly as a season ticket holder to all Colts' games in 1964! Now with the Ravens since their beginning! Thanks for the memories.Last edited by Loco Ravens Fan; 12-18-2012 at 10:58 AM.
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Somebody said they were too old for this forum, I'm the oldest and been going to Colts games since the 50s as a little tot. I remember the Packers coming in before Lombardi. I remember talking to my friends in the back yard saying we never win anything in Bmore. That was in 58 when Bmore won their first championship ever.
I didn't understand the Xs and Os but knew the main objectives of the game.
As far as goal posts, a neighbor had one sticking up in his back yard in Govans. That was in 1960 during a game with the Lions.
Colts were going for their 3rd straight championhip but played a game in Chicago. We won but they beat us up so bad they knocked us out of the PO pic, just like Ravens did to Pissburgh just now. They won but haven't won a game since after Ravens beat them up-lol.
Anyway, Colts just had to win 1 of 4 games in 1960. The last game was vs Lions and a journeyman QB named Earl Morrall, later of SB 3 and SB 5 fame with the Colts.
Unitas brought the team back with an incredible last min patented TD and the place went nuts. Everyone stormed on the field and it took about 30 mins for the cops to clear the field. Can you see that happening today-lol.
There was enough time for the kickoff and 1 play.
Morrall got the ball and threw a short pass and the receiver ran 80 yds for the TD and win and that was the beginning of a bad decade for the Colts culminating with SB 3 with 1965 in between and Matte as the instant QB. We finished tied with GB with a 10-1-1 record with Matte as the QB. There was a game in GB won by them on a phony FG. Even their kicked kicked the dirt knowing he missed. Then he heard the crowds yelling and saw the refs calling it good.
The Colts protested the kick but to no avail of course. John Steadman had a pic of the kick and was going to publish it in the old News American. The Commish, Pete Rozelle asked him not to. Thirty years later he put the pic in his book FROM COLTS TO RAVENS and there it was a good 10 ft wide but Refs called it good.
Back to the Morrall TD, there were still fans on top of the goal posts pulling them down and there were still fans on the field.
I as one of them with my dad and uncles and one of those posts ended up down the alley-lol.Last edited by AirFlacco; 12-18-2012 at 10:53 AM.
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