Comments on: Colts fans lose touch with reality http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2007/10/18/colts-fans-loose-touch-with-reality/ Clear political commentary | Debate | Humor and Sports Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:06:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Saint Augustine http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2007/10/18/colts-fans-loose-touch-with-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-133 Saint Augustine Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:01:22 +0000 http://www.thesunshineempire.com/2007/10/18/colts-fans-loose-touch-with-reality/#comment-133 What fan of an NFL team isn't delusional occasionally? I was once a Colts fan but lost all delusions about them on March 29, 1984 when they moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis. The pictures of the Mayflower Van Lines trucks moving the Colts' offices from Baltimore to Indianapolis that appeared in the newspapers serves as an epitaph to many a Baltimore Colts fan. There is one final Colts memory I share with all the Colts fans who attended opening day of the Orioles at Memorial Stadium in 1984. President Ronald Reagan threw the cerimonial first pitch and then the managers exchanged lineups. Everyone was waiting for the players to take the field when the announcer said, "Ladies and gentlemen, if you will please direct our attention to the center field gate and help me in welcoming our special guest today, MISTER ROBERT IRSAY." A dead hush fell over the stadium as every eye was turned to the playing field waiting for the gate to open. The gate did not open and then the announcer said, "Well it looks like he ran out on us too." What fan of an NFL team isn’t delusional occasionally? I was once a Colts fan but lost all delusions about them on March 29, 1984 when they moved from Baltimore to Indianapolis. The pictures of the Mayflower Van Lines trucks moving the Colts’ offices from Baltimore to Indianapolis that appeared in the newspapers serves as an epitaph to many a Baltimore Colts fan.

There is one final Colts memory I share with all the Colts fans who attended opening day of the Orioles at Memorial Stadium in 1984. President Ronald Reagan threw the cerimonial first pitch and then the managers exchanged lineups. Everyone was waiting for the players to take the field when the announcer said, “Ladies and gentlemen, if you will please direct our attention to the center field gate and help me in welcoming our special guest today, MISTER ROBERT IRSAY.”

A dead hush fell over the stadium as every eye was turned to the playing field waiting for the gate to open. The gate did not open and then the announcer said, “Well it looks like he ran out on us too.”

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