Cntrygal
11-03-2007, 11:19 AM
Paul J. Travers remembered the first time he saw the Colts' mascot, Carolyn Clark, and her Welsh pony, Dixie, cantering around the cinder warning track at old Memorial Stadium.
"It was 1960. I used to go to Colts games with the Southeast Police Boys' Club. We'd meet on Bank Street carrying our lunches in a brown paper bag and then board a school bus for the trip to the stadium," Travers recalled yesterday.
:rofl:
"To Baltimore football fans, Carolyn Clark and her pony, Dixie, mean a Colts touchdown or field goal. To Colt opponents, the sight of the pony on its way around the park is an irritating symbol of another Baltimore score," observed The Sun Magazine.
Carolyn, who earned $20 per game, sometimes was pelted with crumpled programs, paper cups, fruit, sandwiches and even wedges of pie from unhappy visiting fans.
"The symbol of Colt superiority is a fat little white horse, undoubtedly fed on crab cakes and beer, that bounds around the field each time Baltimore scores," wrote a Philadelphia sportswriter after the Colts' 1959 championship victory over the New York Giants.
more... (http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/football/bal-md.backstory03nov03,0,1869845.column?track=rss)
"It was 1960. I used to go to Colts games with the Southeast Police Boys' Club. We'd meet on Bank Street carrying our lunches in a brown paper bag and then board a school bus for the trip to the stadium," Travers recalled yesterday.
:rofl:
"To Baltimore football fans, Carolyn Clark and her pony, Dixie, mean a Colts touchdown or field goal. To Colt opponents, the sight of the pony on its way around the park is an irritating symbol of another Baltimore score," observed The Sun Magazine.
Carolyn, who earned $20 per game, sometimes was pelted with crumpled programs, paper cups, fruit, sandwiches and even wedges of pie from unhappy visiting fans.
"The symbol of Colt superiority is a fat little white horse, undoubtedly fed on crab cakes and beer, that bounds around the field each time Baltimore scores," wrote a Philadelphia sportswriter after the Colts' 1959 championship victory over the New York Giants.
more... (http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/football/bal-md.backstory03nov03,0,1869845.column?track=rss)