Welcome into the lounge presented by Draft Kings.

I'm Ryan Mink here with Garrett Downing and we are thrilled to be joined by one of the founding fathers of UK Ravens Ben Mortimer.

And the Ravens are coming over to the UK as part of the NFL's global markets initiative.

And so really excited about this, Ben, as I'm sure you are.

And tell listeners, first of all, you go way back with the Ravens.

Way back you've been associated with us.

I'm so old, yeah, I feel old.

When I look back at when I started watching the Ravensby, I go kind of back, not all the way to the beginning, not sort of to 96, but I moved to Baltimore when I was a much younger

man in 2001.

So I just missed Super Bowl 35, and I had no idea really about American football at that point.

But because I moved to Baltimore because I like sports and if I wanted the social life,

I had to kind of try and at least find an interest in the Ravens on a Sunday. And that became

a passion after about a week. So I kind of ended up getting, going to my first game, I think,

the following year and then I ended up getting PSL to my first game, I think, the following year, and then

I ended up getting PSLs. And I moved back in 2011 from the UK, already kind of completely

addicted to the Ravens. And I'd been to a ton of road games as well and stuff like that.

So, but yeah, even when I lived in Baltimore, I used to sort of host UK fans of my house.

It was before social media, but there used to be some message boards.

And I'd get frustrated after a loss.

And my girlfriend didn't want to hear it.

So I thought, OK, I'll go and find a message board and vent on there.

And through the wonders of the internet, some people in Britain said, hey, you're English,

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