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The 1965 Baltimore Colts season was the 13th season for the team in the National Football League. The Baltimore Colts finished the National Football League 's 1965 season with a record of 10 wins, 3 losses, and 1 tie, which tied for first in the Western Conference with the Green Bay Packers .
The team was named for Baltimore's history of horse breeding and racing. It was the second incarnation of the Baltimore Colts, the first having played for three years in the All-America Football Conference and one in the National Football League (NFL). This Baltimore Colts played their home games at Memorial Stadium.
The 1965 NFL playoffs determined the champion of the National Football League in professional American football for its 1965 season. Although a single championship game between conference winners was the current format for the league, a tie in the Western Conference standings between the Green Bay Packers and Baltimore Colts necessitated a rare tiebreaker playoff, the first in the league in ...
Glenn Emanuel "Zeke" Ressler (born May 21, 1943) is an American former football offensive lineman who played in the National Football League (NFL) from 1965 through 1974 for the Baltimore Colts. Ressler was regarded as one of the top college football linemen in the country during his junior and senior years of 1963 and 1964, winning the Maxwell ...
Players for the Indianapolis Colts have their own category, Category:Indianapolis Colts players. Some players are members of both categories. Some players are members of both categories. Note: There is also a separate category for the AAFC and later NFL franchise of the same name that existed from 1946 to 1950 , Category:Baltimore Colts (1947 ...
The Packer players each received $7,500 and the Brown players about $4,600 each. [12] This was slightly lower than the previous year, which had a much higher attendance (79,544) in the larger Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Packer fullback Jim Taylor was named the game's outstanding player by Sport magazine and received a 1966 Chevrolet Corvette. [13]
Players had significant financial leverage in this period, with two teams competing for their services, and Curtis received a healthy two-year contract to play for the Colts. The deal paid him $15,000 for the 1965 season and $17,000 for 1966, plus a signing bonus of $22,000 — a total of $54,000 (about $535,000 in 2024) for two years. [7]
The club was officially founded in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1953, as the Baltimore Colts, replacing a previous team of that name that folded in 1950. After 31 seasons in Baltimore, Colts owner Robert Irsay moved the team to Indianapolis. The Colts have had 33 starting quarterbacks (QB) in the history of their franchise.