Never Forget

Jamal Lewis, long time Ravens running back and current Cleveland Brown, is making debut against his former this Sunday. He called Baltimore home his entire NFL career, since the Ravens drafted him with the #5 overall pick in 1999. He had a few good years here. He helped win the franchise's first and only Superbowl in 2000 and in 2003, he won Offensive Player of the Year while rushing for over 2000 yards.
Now he is on a team that is in state of rebuilding, but don't think that will stop him. This entire week Jamal Lewis and Ray Lewis have been talking smack back and forth. Jamal thinks he was slowly casted out as the Ravens offensive strategy was slowly changing philosophies as Jamal's style was slowly being fazed out of the offense. Jamal's recent decline in performace in Baltimore over the past few seasons could argueablly have been because of the offensive strategy or due to Jamal's body ailments, due to his bruiser-back style.
Reguardless, true Ravens fans should quietly be rooting for Jamal every Sunday. We should never forget what he had done for this franchise and this city. Jamal helped rebuild this football town after a stretch of being teamless and the early Ravens years when 6 win seasons were the norm. Without Jamal the Ravens wouldn't be where they are today. Go Jamal!

Disappointing Beginnings

Monday Night Football is the biggest stage in sports for the Ravens to show what they got this season, and they blew it. I am no pessimist by any means, I am just a very disappointed fan who was really excited that football is back and had it spoiled by a horrible performance. With 6 turnovers we shouldn't have even been in the game to begin with, but somehow we got the lead back (20-19) with 12:00 left in the forth quarter. With three minutes left we somehow got the ball back off a fumble recovery by Ed Reed, who played his heart out last night. Reed also had a punt return for a touchdown that gave us the 20-19 lead. Our offense was horrible and more importantly our play calling was awful. McNair went down in the fourth quarter with a leg injury and Kyle Boller took over. I am a huge Kyle Boller fan and he did a great job last night, but on 1st and Goal you have to go to the guy that you invested all your money in this year; Willis McGahee! Even though we had a terrible offensive pass interference call on Heap, which should have been a TD and a dropped ball that turned into a game ending interception by Heap, why aren't we running the ball?!!! The Ravens need to take this week and reevaluate their gamelan for next week against the Jets (which I will be attending). It was a tough loss, but it was a tough game. We never play good on primetime games and we always play bad @ Cincinnati. Good thing we got this one out of the way early. Go Ravens!

Ravens debut fails to rescue local fans from the doldrums

A Day in the Life of a Ravens Fanatic/ College Student

Well, I waited to start writing this blog until the start of the regular season, so I would have something interesting, exciting, and hopefully positive to write about, but it doesn't look like its going to go as planned. This blog is dedicated to Ravens fanatics, including myself. I plan on showing my "quest" through this brand new NFL season. I will be posting pictures of tailgates, other Ravens fanatics, and just speaking my opinion of how things are going for the Ravens this season. My "quest" began last night (Opening night on ESPN's Monday Night Football) at Greene Turtle in Towson. I was joined by over 60 Ravens fans who were just as excited as me. I was in class all day just thinking about this primetime Monday Night Football game that my time was a part of. I could not concentrate. I had to wake up early to meet with my group for a advertising project at 10 A.M., so I literally had the entire day to think about the game. I found myself constantly looking at the clock and doing the math in my head to figure out how many hours were left until game time. I went to the gym, then to my first class, which I could not tell you anything about. After that I had my sports talk radio show with my best friend Billy. That just made it worse because we dedicated half the show to the Ravens game. Billy and I had class together right after that from 5-6:15. (P.S the game is at 7!) 6 pages of notes later my teacher finally let us out at 6 because there was no AC! Me and Billy rushed home and I let my dog Mia out and I put on my Ravens jersey and hat and we headed out to the bar. The place was a sea of purple and black. I loved it. This was the first time I ever experienced a Ravens game at a Ravens bar, since I just turned 21 in May. The place was going crazy with anticipation. I met up with all my fellow Ravens fans; Becki, Nate, Bridget and Rich. It felt good to be in a place with people who were as passionate as me about my beloved Ravens.

The scene: Friend, foe