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The Baltimore Colts Marching Band in 1961, decked out in their signature "cowboy" uniforms of the day. Bob Cissin, first director of the Baltimore Colts Marching Band, 1949. The Baltimore Colts Band was founded on September 7, 1947, just as the first Baltimore Colts franchise was launched as part of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC). [1]
The Baltimore Colts were one of the first NFL teams to have cheerleaders, a marching band and a team "fight song" (along with the nearby Washington Redskins, forty miles southwest in the nation's capital). [ 1 ] The Baltimore Colts were named after Baltimore's long-running annual Preakness Stakes, a premier thoroughbred horse racing event, and ...
The Colts Drum and Bugle Corps (previously known as the Junior Dukes, Legionnaires, and Colt .45) is a World Class competitive junior drum and bugle corps based in Dubuque, Iowa. [ 1] The Colts are part of the Colts Youth Organization and a member of Drum Corps International, along with their feeder corps, the Colt Cadets, which participates in ...
The Colts' former marching band joined the new team while fans in Baltimore, still embittered with the NFL, embraced the distinctive Canadian game to a level not repeated anywhere else in the U.S. Moreover, unlike the Stars, the new CFL team was able to use Memorial Stadium in spite of playing a summer-to-fall schedule, due to the Orioles ...
The team marching band is called Baltimore's Marching Ravens. [156] They began as the Colts' marching band and have operated continuously from September 7, 1947, to the present. They helped campaign for football to return to Baltimore after the Colts moved.
Facing a financial crisis, Colts president Abraham Watner sold the team and its player contracts back to the NFL for $50,000, and the team officially folded. Despite this, fan support continued in many quarters: notably, the team's marching band and fan club remained intact.
The Baltimore Colts (13–1) won the Coastal Division and defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24–14 in the Western Conference championship game. The Colts were led by head coach Don Shula and reserve quarterback Earl Morrall. This was the Colts' fourth championship game appearance since joining the NFL in 1953, with a 2–1 record in the title game.
The former Colts Marching Band, which remained in Baltimore after the Colts moved to Indianapolis, was renamed the Baltimore's Marching Ravens. [33] The Washington Commanders are the only other NFL team with an official marching band.