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[SteelerStorm]

Wanted to originate a post due to the late great Art Modell who passed away this week. The Ravens franchise has had a storied and very successful team since it originated in 1996. Being its considered still a young franchise, What team did you represent before the Ravens? Where you Steeler Fan? Cleveland.... How about Dallas. Looking for all input.

[NaveSenrag]

Too young to have had a team before, but my dad is a huge cowboys fan, so I've taken them on as a secondary team.

[K-Dog]

I was a Colts fan until they rolled out of town then I defaulted to the skins to keep things local.

[SteelerStorm]

Yea me too K-Dog....Was a huge Baltimore Colts fan. Remember Bert Jones, Lydell Mitchell. Wow. Im telling my age...LOL.

[theblackdog]

I followed San Fran briefly as a kid, then I didn't really watch much NFL (being in Cardinals territory back when they were terrible didn't help) until I moved out here.

[Ravens<3]

Ravens is all I've known and will forever know.

[IH EART DA RAVENS]

Yeah, I live in Cowboys country, but I've only been really into the NFL for about five years, and even before then, I knew enough to know the Cowboys are well...yeah. Saw the Ravens playing on TV in primetime, knew I had a team for life.

[flynismo]

Was a Dolphins fan...lived in Tampa as a kid; but loved Marino

[display name]

Friends and family of mine said they liked the Cowboys-so that plays a part in them being my 2nd team now.

[gabefergy]

...Redskins...

Whats a MD boy to do?

[Baltboy]

Colts fan until they left,
didn't root for anybody until we got the Ravens.
One X-Mas during the hiatus my in-laws got me a Redskins hoodie,
I burned it in the woodstove

[TreTheRaven]

Giants fan. Lawrence Taylor. Once he retired, I stopped following football for a while.

I kept playing Madden though -- and got hooked on the Ravens. That's when Kyle Boller was drafted, and wha-la.

[CosmicRedPanda]

I've probably told this story a bajillion (yeah, it's a number -- I looked it up!) times.

I was never a fan of football until my stepfather, who was an Indy Colts fan, read about the Ravens starting up in the paper. Now, I do not know why to this day he was so upset about it, all I can imagine is that he was a Browns fan before he became a Colts fan. In any event, it really got under his skin a bit and with my being in my rebellious teen years took on the Ravens as my team simply out of spite.

It took me a couple of years to actually figure out what the heck was going on, but I think I've got it all down now.

Thank you, Malkavian.

You're welcome. No problem. Glad to see you sporting it!

~ Malkavian Raven
Where's the line?

[MissK528]

Technically, I guess a Redskins fan? We were taught Hail To The Redskins in kindergarten, which was... doing math in my head... five years before the Ravens existed. So I guess a Redskins sympathizer pre-Snyder... hey, I grew up right outside of DC, it just made sense, you know?

[PurpleReign92]

Going off topic a bit there are fans that just follow a coaches career and follow around those coaches.. I know fans that were Marvin Lewis fans, Rex Ryan fans and when they left to be the Head Coaches of there respected teams fans that use to be Ravens fans jumped on those other teams bandwagons..

Edited by PurpleReign92, 07 September 2012 - 10:52 PM.

[wikle]

Growing up in indy and being too young to know any better I was raised a Colts fan in the Jim Harbs era. Then when i started really watching other teams I saw the Ravens in the Super Bowl and knew that was how football was supposed to be played. Been loyal ever since, it helps that it drives my family insane that i'm not a Colts junky like them

[jdynamite]

When I was younger I loved the Bears because on Super Tecmo Bowl could only beat my older brother with them sometimes the Steelers..... Greg Lloyd was my favorite player in the early 90s once Pittsburgh cut him the dislike really began for me lol

I still pull for the Bears but the Ravens are my undisputed Team

[kassaiscool]

I am pretty young but my first team was the cowboys in the mid to late 90's. Then it was the 98 vikings who were always on nationally. Plus the vikings had my favorite receiver <MOSS>. I fell in love and started watching the ravens the year they won the superbowl in 2000. I was only 10 years old, but i loved them and stuck with them ever since. Never liked the skins even though they were on all the time.

[Alexir]

Jags

[Tiz]

No one in particular
First got into football with my dad being a Singletary fan and a redskin hater
So it was really just supported great lbs and anyone beating Washington.
First jersey I bought was in 97 and it was a ravens Eric turner jersey.
In high school I wore two colors under my pads.
Orange for tb hardy Nickerson or green for Philly Byron Evans