It was the night that Colts fans will (bitterly) never forget. On March 28, 1984, 15 moving trucks from Mayflower Transit, an Indiana-based moving company, arrived at the Colts facility at around 10 p.m. Eight hours later, the Colts were gone from Baltimore and bound for their new home in Indianapolis.

The move was a terrible blow to one of the most die-hard fandoms in the league. But when the Maryland Senate gave Baltimore the right to seize ownership of the Colts by eminent domain, owner Robert Irsay accepted the terms of an offer from Indianapolis in order to preserve his ownership over the team.

Football would return to Baltimore in the '90s; the city lured the Cleveland Browns franchise, renamed it the Ravens, and built a brand new sports complex. But for many fans and observers, the dramatic events of 1984 stand as the most notorious franchise move in NFL history.

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