how did the baltimore ravens get their name
Baltimore Ravens The name "Ravens" was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe's poem The Raven.[2][10] Chosen in a fan contest that drew 33,288 voters, the allusion honors Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore and is buried there.[11] As the Baltimore Sun reported at the time, fans also "liked the tie-in with the other birds in town, the Orioles, and found it easy to visualize a tough, menacing black bird."[12]