what division did the baltimore colts play in?
AFC South
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 With these troubles fresh , it was actually a move from the NFL that precipitated the end of the expansion experiment . On November 6 , 1995 — the week of the South Division Final — the NFL 's Cleveland Browns announced they were moving to Baltimore for the following season . A day after the game , the American owners called Smith and requested a meeting in Toronto ; in Smith 's words they told him , " we 'll pay our bills but we 're done . " 

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 The Colts ' first trip to the Super Bowl in 36 years set a record for longest time between appearances by a team . Their return was the culmination of a nine @-@ year @-@ long building process . In 1998 , they drafted quarterback Peyton Manning to lead the team . Over the next four seasons , Manning , along with other stars such as receiver Marvin Harrison and running back Edgerrin James , turned the Colts into one of the best offensive teams in the NFL , but the team struggled to find consistency on defense and always ended up with either a losing season or elimination from the playoffs in the first round . In 2002 , Indianapolis fired head coach Jim Mora and replaced him with Tony Dungy . Dungy had developed one of the best defenses in the NFL while coaching the Tampa Bay Buccaneers , and it was hoped he could solve the Colts ' defensive problems as well . 

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 The Baltimore CFL Colts were in the headlines before even playing a down . Owned by Jim Speros , the team was marketed as a revival of the Baltimore Colts NFL franchise , who had left the city 10 years earlier and had also played at Memorial Stadium . The team 's embrace of the Colts ' history gained an instant following in Baltimore and headlines in the national sports media , although an injunction obtained shortly before the team 's first game forced the league to refer to the team as the " Baltimore CFLers " or " Baltimore Football Club " . Since Memorial Stadium had originally been built to accommodate baseball 's Baltimore Orioles as well as football , its playing surface was large enough to accommodate a full @-@ size Canadian field . 

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 The Browns are only one of 12 NFL franchises to predate the 1960 launch of the American Football League , and only one of three such teams in the AFC . 

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 Chicago and Indianapolis are the two closest cities , geographically , to ever play in a Super Bowl ; at 182 miles ( 293 km ) apart ( connected by a route that is mostly Interstate 65 ) , they are slightly closer than New York and Baltimore , whose teams played each other at III ( 207 miles ) and XXXV ( 188 miles ) . This prompted Colts coach Tony Dungy to joke to Jim Nantz , at the end of the AFC Championship game , that the two teams should split the difference and play the game in Fort Wayne . 
