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Pass by pass

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Tuesday, November 9, 2004

INDIANAPOLIS -- The best way to tell whether you're in a bona fide, hard-core NFL town is to apply the John Facenda Test. Cue the background music. Now, in your best impersonation of the fabled, steeped-in-gravitas baritone Voice of NFL Films, tell the local team's story. Today's test is applied to the Indianapolis Colts. The carpetbagging Colts fled to America's heartland in the dead of night, deserting a long-suffering city on the Atlantic seaboard. On a scale of one to Green Bay, that rate ...

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