The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland.
The name "Ravens" was inspired by Edgar Allan
Poe's poem The Raven. Chosen in a fan contest that drew 33,288 voters, the
allusion honours Poe who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore and is
buried there. 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". Edgar Allan Poe also had distant
relatives who played football for the Princeton Tigers in the 1880s through the
early 1900s. These brothers were famous players in the early days of American
football.
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