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1976 Baltimore Colts: Bert Jones, the MVP Season, & A Ceiling They Couldn’t Break

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The 1976 Baltimore Colts came into the season looking to prove the magic of a year earlier hadn’t been a fluke. In ’75, the Colts shocked the NFL in their first year under head coach Ted Marchibroda, by winning their final nine games and dethroning Don Shula’s Miami Dolphins in the AFC East that the […]

1975 Baltimore Colts: The Improbable Rise

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The Baltimore Colts had been in a three-year funk. After winning the Super Bowl in 1970 and reaching the AFC Championship Game in 1971, the Colts had fallen hard. Over 1972-74, they went a combined 11-31. The front office started over. Ted Marchibroda came in as the head coach. Second-year quarterback Bert Jones came into […]