Ravens and the Colts...

Wow.

I was just reading the Baltimore Sun this morning and caught an article on the Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay and his thoughts of coming back to Baltimore for the AFC playoff game. As you may know, Irsays left Baltimore left with the Colts team in 1984 and moved into Indiana.

Basically Mr. Irsay wants the ‘past to be the past’ and all should be let go, as this happened a generation ago.

Some fans understandably are still upset by the act the Irsay family committed. I am not a Colts fan nor grew up one, and I grew up near Washington D.C., but if one of my sports teams was taken away, only to go to another city, I’d be upset too.

Later on in the morning, I read Roch Kutbako’s blog and he gave his view of the Irsay family, especially on the owner, Jim's deceased father, Robert.

Wow.

The elder Irsay did not sound like a nice man. Well, based on Roch’s opinion and what he wrote in the article, Irsay being not a caring man would be an understatement.

I guess now the Ravens and Colts game will take on a new dimension for some, especially those who lived through that era.

The elder Mr. Irsay is dead and buried, but the son in a sad and twisted way will probably have to atone for the sins of the father on Sunday.

I would say that the Irsay’s did what they did for business and the bottom line; however, for a lot of people, sports are an emotional thing and an identity that ties one to a city and a community. When a sport, especially football, which is highly charged and emotional, is taken away from your life, you feel kind of empty.

Not that I could ever relate, but I now have a deeper understanding.