All-Pro linebacker Ted Hendricks signed a future contract with the
World Football League, and was then traded by the Colts to the
Green Bay Packers by general manager
Joe Thomas. (Hendricks never ended up playing for the bankrupt WFL, and made four more
Pro Bowls in his career.) In an autopsy of the Colts 1974 season written for ''Street & Smith's Pro Football Annual,
Buffalo Evening News'' writer Larry Felser observed that the patience of Baltimore fans was waning, with the perennially sold-out
Memorial Stadium had failed to crack the 40,000 mark at the gate on multiple occasions. "When Joe Thomas arrived on the scene as general manager in 1972, he promised to tear down a decaying team and rebuild it into a champion," Felser wrote. "He produced on the first part of his vow; the Baltimore fans are waiting for the other shoe to drop."
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