Indianapolis Going Back Home To Baltimore For NFL Playoffs

Baltimore was not without a professional football team for long after the Colts bolted for Indianapolis that fatefull night as the league awarded them a franchise a few years later. On Saturday, the Ravens will host the team that formerly occupied their city in a divisional playoff game.

The Colts, for the first time in years, come into this round of the playoffs as underdogs. That means that the pressure Peyton Manning and his teammates have felt the past few years will be on the other side of the field.

Baltimore finished with the conferences second best record and has returned to what made them dominant in winning the Super Bowl a few years back, dominating defense and timely offense.

One thing the Ravens do have this year is a quarterback that has been to the big dance and who can bring them back from defecits, Steve McNair.

The Colts have heard all year how they can't stop the run, but last week they did a stellar job stopping one of the league's top runners in Kansas City's Larry Johnson.

Surprisingly, it is the vaunted Colts offense that has struggled to produce points, and the defense that carried them in their first round win, perhaps they have found a formula that will succeed after playoff failures the past few seasons.

The Ravens, although one of the surprising teams this year, are extremely dangerous with a strong running attack and a punishing defense led by former Miami Hurricane stars Ray Lewis and Ed Reed.

The Ravens will be looking to prove that their season was not a fluke.

Game time is set for 4:30 on Saturday, the Ravens are favored by 4 points in the game and the total is 41.5.

January 12, 2007
Posted By Vincent Tapoglia III
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