When the Baltimore returned to pro football in 1996, after Art Modell solidified himself as perhaps the biggest traitor in Cleveland history, they had so many options for renaming the new team (Cleveland managed to keep the team name, history and colors, unlike some OTHER organizations). The list initially started at 100, but whittled down to three. They could have been the Americans or the Marauders, but instead, the citizens of Baltimore went with the Ravens. While the species Corvus Corax is quite common to Baltimore and is hardly a small sparrow, the decision had more to do with the use of the raven in literary works by the city’s greatest writer, Edger Allen Poe.
M&T Stadium: A house of horrors of the Houston Texans
