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Don Shula, who took over as Colts coach the previous season, is carried off the field after Baltimore won the Western Conference championship by beating the Los Angeles Rams, 24-7, on Nov. 22, 1964. (Harold P. Matosian, AP)Preparing for the middling Chicago Bears, the Colts were heady favorites. On one futile drive, quarterback Johnny Unitas spotted receiver Jimmy Orr open in the end zone— and overthrew him by 20 feet. Five weeks later, he fired longtime coach Weeb Ewbank, a patriarchal type who’ d led the Colts to two NFL titles, and hired boyish Don Shula who, at 33, became the league’ s...
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