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The 1969 Baltimore Colts season was the 17th season for the team in the National Football League. The Colts finished the National Football League 's 1969 season with a record of 8 wins, 5 losses and 1 tie.
Despite this, many former Baltimore Colts players, led by Johnny Unitas, disowned the Colts franchise after the move to Indianapolis, instead choosing to remain loyal to the City of Baltimore. These former players embraced the new Baltimore Ravens franchise when it arrived in Baltimore in 1996. [14] [15] [16] The Ravens do claim the history of ...
The club was officially founded in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1953, as the Baltimore Colts, replacing a previous team of that name that folded in 1950. After 31 seasons in Baltimore, Colts owner Robert Irsay moved the team to Indianapolis. The Colts have had 33 starting quarterbacks (QB) in the history of their franchise.
The Baltimore Colts had won the 1958 and 1959 NFL championships under Coach Weeb Ewbank. In the following years, however, the Colts failed to make the playoffs, and the Colts dismissed Ewbank after a 7–7 record in 1962. He was soon hired by New York's new AFL franchise, which had just changed its name from the Titans to the Jets.
He was a first-team Little All-American pick by the Associated Press on offense in 1968, a two-way all-conference tackle, and was selected in the third round of the 1969 NFL draft by the Baltimore Colts. Nelson spent all of the 1969 season on the Colts' "taxi squad", only making the regular season roster in 1970 season. [1] After playing in ...
Following his retirement in 1967, the Colts retired his jersey No. 77. [16] [17] In August 1969, Parker was named to the NFL's 1950s All-Decade Team. [18] In September 1969, he was selected by the Football Writers Association of America as one of two guards on the all-time All-America team consisting of players from the modern era starting in ...
But in each of those years, the Colts lost in the first round of the playoffs. The 1977 playoff game (known as Ghost to the Post) is famous as the fourth longest game in NFL history; the Colts fell to the Oakland Raiders, 37–31. Jones missed most of 1978 and 1979 with a shoulder injury, and the Colts fell to last place in the AFC East those ...
This is a list of players named as All-Pros based on their performance in the 1969 AFL and NFL season. ... Baltimore Colts (NEA-NFL) Fullback: