Why I love the Ravens

I'd bet Kareem could talk you into a corner, but I like the Ravens as well.

Defense without turnovers wins championships.

There's a psych dimension to the Raven defense which is several steps beyond anything else out there. Try doing youtube searches on 'ray lewis' and watch some of it.

Go look at the football thread and see who has them taking it all...

It ain't cuz there's no muslims, btw.

Then again, what I'm observing might be more universal than football...

Friends who work in and around the Federal and DC governments tell me that for a year or two after 9/11 they were watching all the blacks having to relearn eachothers names as everybody dropped the slammite names they'd thought were cool in the 70s - 90s.....

Ray Lewis vs the guy with the slammite name.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz0bXl2bptc&feature=related

Anybody besides me try to figure that one out or anything like that?

What I mean is, Forties numbers in football usually denote fullbacks, meaning somebody from around 225 to around 250 lbs, and you'd ask yourself if Ray Lewis is really strong enough to simply pick somebody that big up and kerflooie him like a rag doll, and the basic answer is no.

What happened on that one was mental and similar to a judo contest move in which Lewis basically allowed the fullback to kerflooie HIMSELF. Lewis stepped in front of the guy, planted himself and hit the fullback pretty much in the face with his elbow and the part of his forearm just below the elbow, but you can't 'really SWING that part of your arm more than a little bit. What happened was that Hall's head stopped and the rest of his body tried to keep on going. Sort of like a reverse version of the thing you see when a novice skier is doing 30 mph on packed snow and then runs into soft snow, and his feet stop and the rest of his body tries to keep on at 30.

the mayor of pittsburgh does not share your view...

Mayor's new name: Steelerstahl
Updated: January 14, 2009, 2:44 PM ET
PITTSBURGH -- What's in a name?
If you're the mayor of Pittsburgh and your beloved Pittsburgh Steelers are playing one of their archrivals for the right to go to the Super Bowl, certainly not "Raven."
So goodbye, Luke Ravenstahl; hello, Luke Steelerstahl.

Ravenstahl -- er, Steelerstahl -- says he decided to remove "Raven" from his name just as he predicts the Steelers will remove the hated Baltimore Ravens from contention in Sunday's AFC Championship Game.
On Wednesday morning, the mayor began, but did not complete, an official name change petition, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs2008/news/story?id=3832512

Any word about Worthlessberger changing his name to Smith or Jones or some such?