Albany Ed

Possibly the first game I can recall watching on TV was the 1958 Championship game between the Baltimore Colts and the NY Giants. I live in upstate NY, so my family and most of my friends were all Giants fans. The Giants had many famous players that I knew Conerly, Gifford, Rote and a super defense with Huff, Rosie Grier, Robustelli to name a few. However, for me, all I remember was Unitas. I became a Colts fan then and there. I was always controversial in my fandom. I wanted to be different than my brothers and my friends. In baseball, my whole neighborhood was Mickey Mantle and the Yankees, so I rooted for Willie Mays and the NY Giants. Both of my teams moved, but since I didn't live in the cities they left from, I wasn't as upset as I would have been if I did. I'm not sure I would have stayed loyal to either if they abandoned my home town, but that wasn't a problem for me. At any rate, that makes me a Colts fan for 65 years and counting.

Here in Albany, NY the game is on Fox 23. I'm interested in seeing how Matty Ice works with the young receivers.