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Don Shula
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He was previously the head coach of the Baltimore Colts, with whom he won the 1968 NFL Championship. Shula was drafted out of John Carroll University in the 1951 NFL Draft, and he played professionally as a back for the Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Colts. Shula was named 1993 Sportsman of the Year by Sports Illustrated and he had only two losing seasons in his 36-year career of coaching in the NFL. Shula led his teams to six Super Bowls, a record broken by Bill Belichick. In his first Super Bowl, the Colts set the record for the longest period to be shut out, at his next Super Bowl, the Dolphins set the Super Bowl record for the lowest points scored by any team, with one field goal. The following year, he coached a season and broke the record of longest shutout. The Dolphins repeated as Super Bowl champions the following season, as they defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24–7 and he currently holds the NFL record for most career wins as a head coach, with 347. Shula was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1997, Shula was born in Grand River, Ohio, a small town along the Lake Erie shore in the northeastern part of the state. His parents, Dan and Mary, were of Hungarian origin, Shulas father Dan worked for $9 a week at a rose nursery and saved up to buy the small house where Shula spent his early childhood. The house was next door to a store in Grand River owned by Marys parents. Shula played football in his neighborhood as a child, but his parents forbade it after he got a gash on his face when he was 11. Shula attended elementary school at St. Marys, a private Catholic school in Painesville, his mother was a devout Catholic and he later attended Thomas W. Harvey in Painesville and played on its football team starting in 1945. Shula forged his parents signatures to sign up, within weeks of joining Harveys football team, Shula was a starting left halfback in the schools single-wing offense. He handled a portion of the teams rushing and passing duties. It was the first time in 18 years that Harvey had a seven-win season, the team would have won a league title had it not lost an early game to Willoughby. Shula also ran track at Harvey and was an 11-time letterman in his three years there, as Shula prepared to graduate from high school in 1947, many men whose football careers were delayed by service in World War II were returning and competing for athletic scholarships. As a result, Shula was unable to get a scholarship and that summer, however, he had a chance meeting at a gas station with former Painesville football coach Howard Bauchman, who suggested he ask about a scholarship at John Carroll University. Shula got a scholarship at the private Jesuit school in University Heights
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Carroll Rosenbloom
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Carroll Rosenbloom was an American businessman. He was the owner of two National Football League franchises, he was the first owner of the Baltimore Colts, and later switched teams, Rosenbloom has been described as the NFLs first modern owner and the first players owner. Rosenbloom was born in Baltimore, Maryland on March 5,1907, to Anna and he was the eighth of nine children, raised in a Jewish family. His father, an immigrant from Russian Poland, started a successful work-clothing manufacturing company, as a youth, Sports Illustrated described Rosenbloom as an indifferent student but a good athlete. He played football and baseball and boxed, at the time, the Quakers backfield coach was Bert Bell, who later became the commissioner of the NFL. Upon graduation, Rosenbloom returned to Baltimore to work for his fathers clothing company, after being sent to liquidate the Blue Ridge Overalls Company, a small factory his father had acquired, Rosenbloom decided he wanted to run the fledgling company on his own. Based in Roanoke, Virginia, Blue Ridge had suffered during the Depression, but Rosenbloom was intent to turn it around. Civilian Conservation Corps was authorized in 1933 and officials needed denim work clothes, by 1940, after attaining distribution through large channels like Sears-Roebuck and J. C. Penney, Blue Ridge had grown into a prosperous company allowing Rosenbloom to retire at 32. During a brief retirement, Rosenbloom lived as a farmer on Marylands Eastern Shore, growing corn. As well, during time, Rosenbloom married Velma Anderson. Rosenblooms fathers death in 1942 cut his retirement short, however, when Rosenbloom was named the executor of his fathers estate, he chose to return to business life. By 1959, Blue Ridge had grown to include almost a dozen shirt and overall companies and 7,000 employees, leading some to dub Rosenbloom Americas Overalls King. In the financial interests of his family, Rosenbloom decided to sell the company to P & R, at P & R, Rosenbloom served as a Director. With the success of his first enterprise, Rosenbloom diversified his business interests, in the late 1950s, Rosenbloom and his partners bought control of Universal Products Co. He went on to buy American Totalisator and other companies, eventually lumping them all together under the name Universal Controls. After losing the original Colts team in 1951, the city of Baltimore petitioned the NFL for another franchise, around this time, NFL Commissioner Bert Bell wanted to find a new home for the Dallas Texans, an NFL expansion team that folded after one failed season in 1952. Bell sought a new owner with financial resources. From their days together at Penn, Bell thought Rosenbloom would be a great fit, though Rosenbloom was hesitant at first to own a franchise, he relented and bought the team along with a group of other investors
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Memorial Stadium (Baltimore)
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Memorial Stadium was a sports stadium in Baltimore, Maryland, that formerly stood on 33rd Street on an oversized block also bounded by Ellerslie Avenue, 36th Street, and Ednor Road. The rebuilt multi-sport stadium, when reconstruction was completed in the summer of 1954, the stadium was also known as The Old Gray Lady of 33rd Street, and also as The Worlds Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum. C. Canadian Football League, 1994–1995 Baltimore Ravens, National Football League, 1996–1997 Baltimore City College vs Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Thanksgiving Day 1954–1999, Calvert Hall College vs Loyola Blakefield Thanksgiving Day 1957–1999, known as Calvert Hall vs. Loyola, the Turkey Bowl. Army vs Navy United States Military Academy, vs. United States Naval Academy, Memorial Stadium started out in life as Municipal Stadium, also known as Baltimore Stadium, and as Venable Stadium. Designed by Pleasants Pennington and Albert W. Lewis, it was built in 1922 over a period at the urging of the Mayor. It was also known for a time as Babe Ruth Stadium, after the then-recently deceased Hall of Famer and Baltimore native. Seating 31,000 at the time, the new stadium consisted of a single, horseshoe-shaped deck, with the end facing north. A roofless upper deck was added later in 1953–1954 when the St, during the 90-minute parade, the new Birds signed autographs, handed out pictures and threw styrofoam balls to crowd as the throngs marched down several major city streets ending on East 33rd Street. Inside, more than 46,000 watched the Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox, 3–1, to win their home opener, both the new Orioles and the Colts had some great successes over the next few decades, winning several championships. Among the Colts greats were quarterback Johnny Unitas, wide receiver Raymond Berry, over the next few decades, both teams became among the winningest and competitive franchises in their sports, sending a number of players to their respective Halls of Fame. On May 2,1964, an accident involving a stadium escalator caused the death of a teenaged girl. That day, the Orioles held Safety Patrol Day to honor schoolchildren who served in their schools safety patrols, in which helped their fellow students travel to. For the event,20,000 schoolchildren from around the state of Maryland were given admission to the Orioles game against the Cleveland Indians. The moving steps cut and mutilated the children until a stadium usher, 65-year-old Melville Gibson, finally reached the escalators emergency shut-off switch and turned the escalator off. Previously, the switch had been moved to a wall across from the escalator in order to prevent pranksters from turning it off while people were on it. A 14-year-old girl, Annette S. Costantini, was killed in the accident,46 other children were injured, some seriously. The gate at the top of the escalator — called a people channeler — had apparently been left there after a previous event, the gates purpose was to control the flow of people getting onto the escalator. Children heading for the deck then got onto the escalator
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Indianapolis Colts seasons
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The Indianapolis Colts, formerly the Baltimore Colts, are an American football team playing in the National Football League. This list documents the records of the Colts franchise from 1953 to present, including postseason records. In 1953, a Baltimore-based group led by Carroll Rosenbloom gained the rights to a new Baltimore franchise, Rosenbloom was granted an NFL team, and was awarded the holdings of the defunct Dallas Texans organization. The new team was named the Colts after the team that folded after the 1950 NFL season. After 31 seasons in Baltimore, Colts owner Robert Irsay moved the team to Indianapolis, the Colts have won two Super Bowl championships. They also played in and lost Super Bowl III and Super Bowl XLIV, before the AFL and NFL merged in 1970, they won three NFL Championships. By winning Super Bowl XLI the Colts became the first team played its home games in a domed stadium to win a Super Bowl held in an outdoor stadium. After the Colts owner Jim Irsay hired Tony Dungy in 2002, much of the teams success throughout the 2000s was attributed to the trio of general manager Bill Polian, coach Dungy, and quarterback Peyton Manning. In the 2013 season, the Colts secured their first division championship since Mannings departure and first under quarterback Andrew Luck, a The Finish, Won, Lost, and Ties columns list regular season results and exclude any postseason play. Regular season and postseason results are combined only at the bottom of the list, B All regular season MVPs listed are the Associated Press MVP. For the full list of other MVPs see National Football League Most Valuable Player Award, C All Coach of the Year Awards listed are the Associated Press award. For the full list of other coaching awards see National Football League Coach of the Year Award, D This game would be later known as The Greatest Game Ever Played. E The 1967 NFL season marks the first season in the history where the league was divided into two conferences which were subdivided into two divisions. Up to 1967, the league was divided into two divisions, two conferences, or neither. F The Colts and Dolphins finished tied, however, the Colts finished ahead of Miami in the AFC East based on a head-to-head sweep. G The Colts and Patriots finished tied, however, the Colts finished ahead of New England based on a better division record. H The Colts and Dolphins finished tied, however, the Colts finished ahead of Miami based on better conference record. I The game involved the infamous Ghost to the Post play, J1982 was a strike-shortened season so the league was divided up into two conferences instead of its normal divisional alignment
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National Football League
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The National Football League is a professional American football league consisting of 32 teams, divided equally between the National Football Conference and the American Football Conference. The NFL is one of the four professional sports leagues in North America. The NFLs 17-week regular season runs from the week after Labor Day to the week after Christmas, with each team playing 16 games, the NFL was formed in 1920 as the American Professional Football Association before renaming itself the National Football League for the 1922 season. The NFL agreed to merge with the American Football League in 1966, and the first Super Bowl was held at the end of that season, the merger was completed in 1970. Today, the NFL has the highest average attendance of any sports league in the world and is the most popular sports league in the United States. S. The NFLs executive officer is the commissioner, who has authority in governing the league. The team with the most NFL championships is the Green Bay Packers with thirteen, the current NFL champions are the New England Patriots, who defeated the Atlanta Falcons 34–28 in Super Bowl LI. Another meeting held on September 17,1920 resulted in the renaming of the league to the American Professional Football Association, the league hired Jim Thorpe as its first president, and consisted of 14 teams. Only two of these teams, the Decatur Staleys and the Chicago Cardinals, remain, the first event occurred on September 26,1920 when the Rock Island Independents defeated the non-league St. Paul Ideals 48–0 at Douglas Park. On October 3,1920, the first full week of league play occurred, the following season resulted in the Chicago Staleys controversially winning the title over the Buffalo All-Americans. In 1922, the APFA changed its name to the National Football League, in 1932, the season ended with the Chicago Bears and the Portsmouth Spartans tied for first in the league standings. This method had used since the leagues creation in 1920. The league quickly determined that a game between Chicago and Portsmouth was needed to decide the leagues champion. Playing with altered rules to accommodate the playing field, the Bears won the game 9–0. Fan interest in the de facto championship game led the NFL, beginning in 1933, the 1934 season also marked the first of 12 seasons in which African Americans were absent from the league. The de facto ban was rescinded in 1946, following public pressure, the NFL was always the foremost professional football league in the United States, it nevertheless faced a large number of rival professional leagues through the 1930s and 1940s. Rival leagues included at least three separate American Football Leagues and the All-America Football Conference, on top of regional leagues of varying caliber. Three NFL teams trace their histories to these leagues, including the Los Angeles Rams
