Lenny Moore
Photo gallery of Hall of Famer Lenny Moore
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Photo gallery of Hall of Famer Lenny Moore
It might have been Ravens training camp, but this was a Baltimore Colt doing the coaching yesterday. His team: 16 youths caught up in the state Department of Juvenile Services.
DAD, I think it's gonna be all right," Leslie Moore told his father, as he looked up from his hospital bed that winter evening.
Ravens Stadium got the Unitas touch yesterday, from the 13-foot statue of John Unitas to a ring of honor induction for Baltimore Colts Hall of Famers to an eloquent halftime address by the late quarterback's wife.
They watched the Ravens' football playoffs together, muffling their whoops in the hush of a hospital. Les Moore lay propped in bed in the critical care wing, more mindful of the TV than the IV in his arm. Beside him sat his father, Lenny, the Colts' Hall of Famer.
Like a few thousand other Baltimore fans counting down the days to Super Bowl XXXV, Brian Cooper can't help feeling as if he's been here before.
Every time Gino Marchetti takes a step, he remembers The Game. It was Dec. 28, 1958. Marchetti's Baltimore Colts were playing the New York Giants in what is now known as The Greatest Game Ever Played.
Fans may not yet know all the Ravens, but there will be no lack of faces familiar to Baltimore football fans when the NFL officially returns here Sunday.
Art Donovan remembers the first time he was introduced to the Baltimore football fans in 1950.
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