The Mayflower Vans

On a snowy night in March 1984, a line of moving trucks pulled up to the Baltimore Colts’ training complex. By morning the team was gone, packed up and driven out of Maryland before the state could pass a law letting the city seize it. This is the story of how Baltimore lost the team of Johnny Unitas overnight, and why, twelve years later, the same city did the very same thing to someone else.