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🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | 25 years ago, March 29, 1996, Art Modell stood at Baltimore's inner harbor and announced the name of the new NFL team, The Ravens. |
0:12.0 | We'll talk about how the Ravens name came about and will reminisce about those chaotic first few months of the Ball of More Ravens. |
0:21.6 | They weren't the only ones that were shocked. |
0:24.6 | Players were worried whether they're going to get housing, it's moving expenses, where are we going to live, etc. |
0:29.6 | Where's training camp? |
0:30.6 | And we're the mean machine from the longest yard. |
0:34.6 | We had white helmets and black jersey. No names. |
0:38.3 | Kurt Reynolds was out there. |
0:40.3 | Now we're trying to get guys, you know, college guys, you go, okay, you want to come. |
0:46.3 | Does Baltimore have a team? |
0:48.3 | And the kid that Detroit took, we had him a head array mistake on our part, but he goes, and we're |
0:55.5 | setting there with the 26th pick, and I said, okay, we're taking Ray Lewis. And I remember calling |
1:00.5 | Ray, and he goes, who? |
1:18.4 | Welcome into the lounge. We've got a unique episode of the lounge today. This is something that some fans may have been wanting for a long time, which is the two of us to take a back seat. |
1:23.2 | We're going to shut up in this episode. You're welcome. |
1:33.9 | So today, if fans didn't know this, today is March 29th, this is when this episode is going live. |
1:34.6 | This is the 25th birthday of the Ravens becoming the Ravens. |
1:38.1 | On this day, 25 years ago, was when Art Modell held up that card in the Inner Harbor saying |
1:42.6 | that the Ravens were going to become the Ravens. And if some of our younger fans don't know this, it was actually a poll. It was a |
1:49.5 | poll in the Baltimore Sun to select what the team name would be. And Ravens won an overwhelming |
1:55.0 | majority to become the team name. This was after it was announced that the Browns were moving from Cleveland to Baltimore, |
2:02.6 | but you're in this little weird territory where it's the off-season, |
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