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The Colts played their first season in Baltimore in 1953, where the team complied a 3 – 9 record under first year head coach Keith Molesworth.

The franchise struggled during the first few years in Baltimore, with the team not achieving their first winning record until the 1957 season.

However, under head coach Weeb Ewbank and the leadership of quarterback Johnny Unitas, the Colts would go onto a 9 – 3 record during the 1958 season and reached the NFL Championship Game for the first time in their history by winning the NFL Western Conference.

The Colts faced the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL Championship Game in what is considered to be among the greatest contests in professional football history.

The Colts defeated the Giants 23 – 17 in the first game ever to utilize the overtime rule and a game seen by 45 million people.