It was August 1988. The heat was withering, and things were about to get hotter.
An ambulance kept near the practice field was idling, and caught fire. The flames spread to the Colts’ weight tent.
“I got a call from the field, ‘Call 911. Call 911,’ ” Ward said. “It was pretty strange.”
“It was so hot up there that day that the ambulance . . . exploded,” Utt said, laughing. “We all said if it was that hot, we shouldn’t be practicing in the first place.
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