Nightman

Please not again, after what happened the season after we won Super Bowl 35.

I heard it might be the Bills now instead of the Rams

It started with the Colt Corrals (now Ravens Roosts) convention in 1963 in Ocean City, then the other splinter group the Ravens Nests had their OC Rave at the same time, when the NFL was last in lock out instead of some of the Ravens players, the team brought some of the cheerleaders instead and were inspired to have their "Beach Bash" which is at the Clarion, the following year.  Everyone usually sees the Ravens Roost parade with all the floats on Saturday.  The weekend after Memorial Day has become "Ravens Weekend" with all three groups doing various activities.

Back then, they had to have a jacket with Baltimore Ravens on it because the logo and uniform designs weren't ready for another month and half.

Could we cut it out with the Politics, please!

With any resale service you should be logged in with your info to order them.  I learned that the hard way with SeatGeek, I did get my ticket for a basketball game at the Verizon Center but only a hour before tipoff.   

You can buy mobile tickets on Ticketmaster's regular any resale sites if you have a smartphone,  they scan it at the phone like a ticket.   Although I wish they would give you a small receipt with your seating info like the Verizon Center.  

21 hours ago, Tank 92 said:

I'm pretty sure all teams include the pre season games in the season package. No rise in total package price for 4 years seems pretty fair. Guess they could have left the preseason games at the same price and raised everything 12%. Would that make you feel "un insulted"? Seems to me they take pretty good care of their regular customers.

You could always go with the skins as I'm sure you'd get a better deal over there.  

Or you could buy your  tickets on other resale sites that don't have minimum price floors like Ticketmaster's ticket exchange and take your changes.  About Danny's Boys, once he gets a new stadium I predict the fans who want season tickets in his new palace, better save up for PSL.

19 minutes ago, 52520Andrew said:

Also the Ravens Steelers Christmas game looks like it will be shown on NFL Network according to ESPN

But it will be shown locally on broadcast TV, on a Baltimore channel as part of the deal with the NFL.

Going to try to get a ticket to the Battle of the Beltways to see the Ravens take on Danny's Boys at the Vault if the price is right.

I wonder is our game against Danny's Boys from Landover going to be on a Thanksgiving or not?

The Raiders had five year term PSLs in Oakland but got rid of them when season ticket sales tank.  I think the Ravens will sell them again when a new stadium is being built to replace M&T Bank Stadium but that's at least several years down the road.

I always think of this song on this day of the year:

Why you April Fool me mon?
 

Maybe consider putting Billick in the Ring of Honor since he helped turn the Ravens into winners.  I remember the Marchibroda days of 16-31-1.

Imagine if we did this when the Ravens came to Baltimore, the Baltimore Browns Backers would be mad as hell.  Still there was a Snickers ad that got them mad.  I can't find it on YouTube but it had two football fans in a empty stadium talking about no one was here, they said it was 4:00 game and they showed one endzone that said "Cleveland" back in 1996.

I felt St. Louis was "too little, too late" in keeping the Rams.  They should have first offered an extension of the current lease while it was fixed instead of when it went year to year.   The stadium they offered would have not been in the top tier and they sort of violated the one on the Edward Jones Dome by not keeping in the top tier.

You forgot the Replacements which I was part of extras for the shooting, Ravens Stadium became Nextel Stadium for the movie.  I never made it in the film sitting in the stands.  Waited around between scenes and all I got was free parking. admission, soda, chips and a hot dog from the commissary.

Memorial Stadium in Major League 2 was the visiting teams park, and home in 1993 to the O's AA Eastern League Affiliate Bowie Baysox while their stadium was being built.

On ‎3‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 0:53 PM, Steve0x said:

Sundays are BOR-RING! Without the NFL. This is why we need the USFL to return! Its Spring-Summer football it keeps the game going after the Super Bowl is over. Who wants to watch old movies and Doctor shows while waiting for Baseball to start the real season? Thats why we need the NEW USFL on CBS Pregame starts at noon- Kickoff 1PM and at 4:15 second game. Thats what sundays are meant to be! 

If they revive it then they need a salary cap to keep owners like the one who owned the New Jersey franchise in the old one away.

On ‎3‎/‎16‎/‎2016 at 2:59 PM, Steve0x said:

Here where i live Publix sucks. I would like Giant Food company to buy Publix. Giant Food has the best customer service when i shop in Baltimore. They have a Deli Klosk where you can order pick it up and go. Not to mention i love those self checkout counters. 

Giant is owned by Royal Ahold who also owns Stop and Shop, a lot of us here said it went downhill when that company bought it.  I go to Safeway in Rockville in the basement of the Galvin Apartments.  Its an improvement from the Loehman's Plaza store it replaced and has a Starbucks and a fan shop with Ravens and Redskins stuff albeit a little on the expensive side.  Although they are cutting back on open checkouts, and its becoming the new "Safewait".  

I rooted for the last two Baltimore Pro teams, the Stars who were more like the I95 Stars and later the Baltimore CFL Colts/CFLs/Stallions, I was a little unhappy at first when they announced the move, didn't like the name Baltimore Browns, but that changed once they became the Ravens.  Sure Art may moved the team and left the name so he could get out of the one year remaining on the lease as part of the deal, as an out of court settlement with Cleveland, but it also reinvented the franchise when it came here.  Actually the person to credit for the move was Joan Moag then head of the Maryland Stadium Authority, there other teams interested in coming here, the Buccaneers, the Cardinals (for a second look, this city was runner up to Arizona in the mid 80s) and the Raiders who would have moved had Modell stayed.  Moag went with him, because they would have the best chance for success here.   Actually I like being in the AFC, because I can watch most of the games on DC TV, except for one or two.

I went to the first home game at Memorial stadium after hearing more tickets were relased while watching the last preseason game.  I was a member of a Ravens Roost in Bowie that later became a Nest until folding 7 years ago.  I still tailgate with them before a game in Lot H.  I park in the Park Under Garage for $15 and just deal with the traffic on the way home.  I watch most of the game at Rock Bottom Arlington with a group of DC/NOVA Ravens Fans, although we're still up in the air next season because of their location in Ballston Commons Mall is facing major renovation as they become Ballston Quarter....

University of Chicago was one of the original members of the Big 10, they dropped sports in World War II and were later replaced by Michigan State.   They're still in the academic arm of the B1G, the Center for Intercollegiate Cooperation where all the schools pool their resources, and have digitalized their libraries, I'd like to see the lacrosse associate Johns Hopkins join this as well since they are top research University and can bring a lot to this organization.

If Baltimore ever gets around to building a new arena and gets a hockey team, I'd like see an outdoor hockey festival either at M&T or Camden Yards.

Had Modell not moved here, Al Davis was waiting in the wings and we'd be Baltimore Raiders fans right now.

Cleveland '95 was the Cleveland perspective of the move to Baltimore.  The real person who gets the credit is John Moag of the Maryland Stadium Authority.  He had offers from Al Davis and the Raiders, the Bucs and the Cardinals (a second time) but went with Modell and the Original Browns because they had the best chance for success in this town.  Had Modell not moved Al Davis was waiting in the wings.    Baltimore was the runner up city for the Cardinals relocating, when they decided on Arizona, the Bidwells chose that city because it was warm most of the year.  Also Georgia Frontier flirted with this town when she moved the Rams to St. Louis.

Hopefully the next one that's Ravens related is our next Super Bowl Champions season highlights video, if not then NFL Films will probably release a historical DVD box set for the Ravens 25th anniversary.

• 1 hour ago, JEEPercreepermd said:

  I think it might have something to do with the fact that Toronto is close to two NFL cities in Buffalo and Detroit, plus Toronto is generally an English speaking City, where others like Quebec or Montreal are mostly French Canadians who probably have less interest in Football. 

  Now, I'm sure if they played a Seahawks game in Vancouver it could go over well. 

  They should play the PRO Bowl in Calgary in January on a frozen pond. Then I'd watch it. 

   

  I remember they played a NFL Preseason game in Sweden with the Vikings, And obviously that's what the majority of the crowd rooted for.  There was a Pro Football act that said the NFL couldn't permanently move teams up there to protect the CFL, or course they had the US Experiment where the Baltimore Stations won it all, but no one cared in the USA elsewhere.
  
  If the Ravens did play a game in England it would be as the visiting team, because on the PSL contract it says "All Ravens home games must be played in Baltimore.

Abe Pollin, Arnold Heft, and Earl Foreman who was the ownership group that moved the Bullets from Chicago probably just played at the Civic Center because there was no large arena in Washington at the time.  Also I went to a seminar about Baseball in Baltimore at the Sports Legends Museum with Phil Chenier, Mike Rieodan and one player from the Original Bullets teams of the later 40-early 50s that played at the old Baltimore Coliseum.  The players on the second team said the only time it was packed was when they played the Knicks..     

There was an ABA team in Baltimore around 1975, first called the Hustlers, then when the controversy of the name, they changed it to the Claws.  The owners couldn't raise enough money for a guarantee bond to start the season and the team folded before it started.