{"id":1027,"date":"2015-06-29T10:32:49","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T14:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2015-06-29T10:32:49","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T14:32:49","slug":"ticket-please-baltimore-colts-vs-new-york-yanks-941950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/ticket-please-baltimore-colts-vs-new-york-yanks-941950\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticket Please: Baltimore Colts vs. New York Yanks, 9\/4\/1950"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great ticket stub from a September 4, 1950 NFL preseason game between a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/nfl\/teams\/defunct\/press-room-nfl-defunct.html\">defunct franchises<\/a> &#8212; the Baltimore Colts (a different Colts than the current team) and New York Yanks. It was held at State Fair Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Colts were destroyed, 42-17, in what was a harbinger of things to come. The team won just one game during the regular season and gave up 50+ points three times.<\/p>\n<p>The Yanks, meanwhile, finished the 1950 campaign with a respectable 7-5 record.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1950-yanks-colts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1028\" src=\"http:\/\/sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1950-yanks-colts.jpg\" alt=\"Baltimore Colts vs. New York Yanks, 9\/4\/1950\" width=\"800\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1950-yanks-colts.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/1950-yanks-colts-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1950 was the one and only season in the league for Baltimore, while the Yanks disappeared after 1951.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great ticket stub from a September 4, 1950 NFL preseason game between a pair of defunct franchises &#8212; the Baltimore Colts (a different Colts than the current team) and New York Yanks. It was held at State Fair Stadium in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Colts were destroyed, 42-17, in what was a harbinger of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[27,112,113,91,111],"class_list":["post-1027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ticket-please","tag-1950s","tag-baltimore-colts","tag-new-york-yanks","tag-nfl","tag-tickets","wpcat-110-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1027\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportspaper.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}