OMG - I bet you folks can't guess who the official NFL team of Maryland is

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Hint: It's not these guys:

[TZ]

1. Guess which team in Maryland plays BY FAR the closest to where I live...

Hint...it is that guy in the picture. The Landover Redskins...:P

[Tommy_Carcetti]

2. Then the Landover Redskins ought to stop using a Virginia mailing address.

http://www.fanmail.biz/1556.html

:P

[dawg]

3. Ummmm ..... the Ravens?

Or am I missing something?

[TZ]

4. Naw. TC likes to needle me a long time Washingtonian (live in the Maryland Burbs)

about rooting for the real Maryland team.

[Captain Hilts]

6. Well, MD taxpayers paid for the Ravens Stadium. I've yet to get a ticket from the Govt!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. Actually, taxpayers didn't pay for the stadium. Lottery players did.

So check your next scratch off.

[Captain Hilts]

8. Right. Better to spend that $ on a stadium that's used 12 times a year than schools! nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. Maryland actually uses its tax money for that.

Which is smart, unlike Florida, who uses lottery money to pay for schools and is too scared to utilize a progressive state income tax.

[Captain Hilts]

10. It makes NO SENSE in this economy to build a stadium specific to football. It's a WASTE.

That money could have been better used somewhere else.

Baseball has 86 games and generates an economy. Football does not.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. It might make no sense....

...but it's the NFL, and the trend is to build football only stadiums.

That's why virtually every team except Oakland, Minnesota, San Diego, San Francisco and Miami plays in a stadium built for football only.

Don't blame the Ravens. Blame the NFL.

[madinmaryland]

14. Well, Raven stadium is used ONLY for football, unlike Jerry Jones Memorial Stadium

which has many, many uses. These uses include being able to host a Super Bowl which Baltimore's would and should never be considered for hosting the super bowl. BTW, JJMS can also be used for concerts and events year round.

HOW ABOUT THEM COWBOYS!!1!!

[Captain Hilts]

17. Then the NFL can pay for it. There's an economic reason football was played in baseball stadiums -

and not the other way around. MD doesn't take its orders from the NFL.

I am in downtown Baltimore about once a week and that stadium sits empty. This isn't a rant against the Ravens, but the MD government.

In Philly and Pittsburgh voters voted against using taxpayer money to build sports stadiums and the city governments built them anyway.

In the case of the NFL, it's the most crass welfare for the wealthy.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

20. Well don't just blame the Maryland government either if all governments do it.

And frankly, I think the Maryland government handled the Ravens stadium situation fine. Lottery money is not general tax fund money. No one was forced to play the lottery. It all came from voluntary sources.

[TZ]

22. Yeah but what about the 40 million dollars that was just GIVEN

to Art Modell. Corporate Welfare sucks....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. How about the millions given to Jack Kent Cooke for road improvements leading to Fed Ex?

And then he turned around and tried to keep Baltimore from getting its own team.

What's good for the goose....

[TZ]

24. It was needed. Road improvements are kinda important

And he PAID for the Stadium out of his own pocket. Thats the big difference there.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

25. Public money for the benefit of his private property? I dunno about that...

Plus Jack Kent Cooke was scum. I could never forgive him for his statements at the 1993 owners meeting when he said that Baltimore would get a team "over his dead body." TV cameras recorded the moment for posterity and everything:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jH-TT7YrqC8

[TZ]

26. Geez coming from a fan of Peter Angelos

this criticism of Jack Kent Cooke is pretty funny. Angelos still gets what 80-90% of the revenue from MASN?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

28. I've never been a fan of Peter Angelos. I've been a fan of the Orioles.

Although I did once say he was a very sexy, sexy man.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Exactly dawg. It should be self-evident.

You live in Maryland, you root for the Ravens.

The patch doesn't lie:



Why some people don't get it through their turtle shell of a head, I really don't know. ;)

[HopeHoops]

11. The Scaggsville Cornhusk Snorters

Yes, there is a Scaggsville, MD.

[madinmaryland]

15. Heh!

That's in my congressional district. WTF are the Scaggsville Cornhusk Snorters??

:wtf:

[HopeHoops]

18. I just made that up. I used to make a left on 216 off of 29 to go to Laurel and Scaggsville was...

... to the right. I just liked the name.

Besides, back then it was mostly corn fields. I'm sure it is all developments now.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

21. There is also a Boring, Maryland. nt

[av8rdave]

13. That's easy

Marylanders have never been able to stop loving the Colts.

:sarcasm:


Being series though, you KNOW there's gotta be a lot of Cowboy fans in Maryland!


Flame away!

[madinmaryland]

16. HOW ABOUT THEM COWBOYS, Dave!!1!!

:hi:

Nice to see the Super Bowl being hosted in the World-Class Jerry Jones Memorial Stadium.

:woohoo:

[Ishoutandscream2]

29. Now, if we can see the trophy given to the Cowboys

That would be the ultimate. But I have almost given up hope that I will ever see that again in my lifetime. Mr. Jones, in my opinion, has a lot to do with that.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. Well, if only the NFL could ever come to its senses and....

....give all the pre-Indy Baltimore Colts records to the Ravens and seperate the Baltimore Colts section from the Indianpolis NFLers section (and include future Ravens Hall of Famers in taht section), I think it would be a fine solution and a fitting end to the tragedy that occurred in 1984.

But Baltimore got screwed around by the NFL for 13 years. Forget Cleveland. Cleveland got inconvenienced for 3 years and then got a team with its old name and history back (as they should have, may I add.) Baltimore couldn't even name its Canadian Football League team the Colts without the NFL jumping down its back.

[av8rdave]

27. Dude....

That's why I put the "sarcasm" emoticon below that first sentence.

Relax...it was a bad joke. I lived in Baltimore for a year in the 70s, and still have family there. I am well aware of the events surrounding the departure of the Colts and the things that happened in the subsequent years. There is more than enough justification for Baltimore fans to harbor just a little resentment over that.

I always did find it ironic that Baltimore regained an NFL team under the circumstances they did. However, you're right - the Cleveland fans never got the hostility from the league that the Baltimore folks did. Baltimore's treatment in the years after the Colts left was puzzling, given the town's sports history and fan loyalty.

In a perfect world, I would love to see more cities adopt the Green Bay ownership model. It would be nice to take away franchise owners' ability to hold a city/fan base hostage by threatening to move a team.

Best regards, and How 'Bout Them Cowboys!

[SoxFan]

30. To heck with the NFL...

[pink-o]

31. Sorry everyone. It'll always be The Colts and Johnny Unitas.

Actually, I was born at Union Memorial Hospital, right next to the stadium. But since my family headed to the Left Coast when I was 4, I can't claim to be a real Baltimoron. Just channeling my dad who was born and raised there and probably would have preferred to be at the Colts' game than hanging out in the waiting room until his second daughter came screaming into the world. (I was born December 1954, so there probably was a game that weekend!)