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After 53 years, Baltimore is again a gateway to the Super Bowl as AFC championship game host

Source: 1971 AP

The last time Baltimore hosted an AFC championship game, the city was enjoying quite a sports renaissance.

The Orioles had won the World Series a few months earlier. Then the Colts followed with a Super Bowl title. Even the local basketball team made an appearance in the NBA Finals.

“It literally felt, at least to a 9-year-old, like the axis of the ran through Baltimore,” said Gerry Sandusky, who is now the radio voice of the . “You had Johnny Unitas, you had Brooks Robinson, you had Wes Unseld. You had

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