SPORTS
February 5, 2013
Leading up to and after the Super Bowl, we'll be sharing dispatches sent to us by Ravens fans going to New Orleans. We hope that "Super Fans: A fan's-eye view of XLVII" allows the rest of Ravens Nation to share in their experience. Posts will be published blog-style in reverse chronological order as we receive them. Entries are edited for style. There are no words, but I still wrote 700 Confetti falls during the post-game ceremonies. Tammy Lunkenheimer posted 1:14 p.m. Tuesday I am barely able to find the right words to describe my Super Bowl experience.
NEWS
By Childs Walker, Jean Marbella and Scott Calvert, The Baltimore Sun | February 4, 2013
Ravens fans had waited 12 years for another Super Bowl victory, and they packed the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, dwarfing 49ers rooters in both numbers and volume. They about blew the roof off the stadium when Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco flicked his first touchdown pass as the team began its march to a commanding halftime lead. Then Baltimore - the team and its fans - held on for dear life. Down by 22 points early in the second half, the 49ers staged a furious comeback that fell just short as the Ravens held on to win, 34-31.
SPORTS
By Chris Korman, The Baltimore Sun | January 28, 2013
Ray Lewis took the microphone and said one word three times: "Baltimore. " Staring out at thousands of people crowding the Harborplace Amphitheater, most of them holding cell phones or cameras aloft to capture the moment, the second player ever drafted by the Ravens launched into a short speech. The team was making a pit stop Monday on its way to the airport to fly to New Orleans for Sunday's Super Bowl, so these would be Lewis' last public comments in Baltimore as a member of the franchise he has come to personify.
ENTERTAINMENT
by Richard Gorelick and The Baltimore Sun | January 22, 2013
This year's Super Bowl features two teams -- and cities -- with much in the way of grudges. But that won't stop fans from creating them. Fans can start whipping themselves into a proper frenzy right now by sharing their love for either Baltimore or San Francisco -- and Wheat Thins -- via Twitter and or Instagram. Baltimore fans should simply Tweet or post #BAL #MUSTHAVEWHEATTHINS from now through Sunday. San Francisco fans have to tweet .... something else. Fans from the city with the "loudest fans" will be eligible to have 10 boxes of assorted snacks delivered to their door on Super Bowl Sunday.
SPORTS
By Dan Connolly and The Baltimore Sun | January 16, 2013
I wrote a little about this before. But now I want your opinion. So come sit down by the bar, grab a Boh and give me your two cents (no, that's not the suggested tip). The Ravens play in the AFC title game Sunday. One upset win over the New England Patriots and Ray Lewis and company are back in the Super Bowl for the first time since 2000-01. Meanwhile, the Orioles host FanFest on Saturday and record crowds would not be a surprise. The club, after all, made the playoffs for the first time in 15 years.
SPORTS
By Bob Kravitz and The Indianapolis Star | January 3, 2013
For most of the callow Colts, the history of the Colts' move from Baltimore to Indianapolis might as well be as distant and foreign as the publication of the Magna Carta and the War of 1812. “I wasn't even born then," Dwayne Allen said of the 1984 move of the franchise. He's 22 years old. Born in 1990. “I wasn't even a thought. " That's true for most of this team. And the older guys? They were kids when the move happened. They were trying to figure out multiplication tables when those Mayflower trucks left in the dead of night.