Baltimore Ravens

The Baltimore Ravens are a professional American football team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They compete in the Northern Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The Ravens have won one Super Bowl title, Super Bowl XXXV, in the 2000 season against the New York Giants.

On November 6, 1995, then-Cleveland Browns proprietor Art Modell announced his intent to go the squad to Baltimore, citing the deficiency of Cleveland Stadium and the deficiency of an adequate successor along with his thick debt. The resolution triggered a flurry of lawful action that ended when representatives of Cleveland and the NFL reached a resolution on February 8, 1996. It stipulated that the Browns' figure, colors, and story of the dealership were to stay in Cleveland, including previous records and the attribution of its Pro Football Hall of Fame players. A reactivated Cleveland Browns squad would so start drama in 1999, while Modell's relocated nightclub would technically and lawfully be an enlargement squad, the Ravens. Still, some regard the Ravens and the pre-1995 Browns organization as one continual entity, using terms like "The Modell organization" or "Art Modell's dealership" to denote it.

Did you know that the Baltimore Ravens have a "Ring of Honor" which is on permanent display encircling the field of M&T Bank Stadium, including a sign with the names and dates of play viewable from the seats. The ring currently honors the following:

21 Earnest Byner, Running back, played for Modell in both Cleveland and Baltimore, inducted 2001.
Johnny Unitas and the Baltimore Colts, inducted in 2002 following the death of Unitas. The numbers of the following Hall of Fame Colts players are honored:
19 Johnny Unitas
24 Lenny Moore
70 Art Donovan
77 Jim Parker
82 Raymond Berry
83 Ted Hendricks
88 John Mackey
89 Gino Marchetti
Art Modell, original owner, inducted 2003.
99 Michael McCrary, defensive lineman, inducted 2004

Season W L T Finish Playoff results
1996 4 12 0 5th AFC Central --
1997 6 9 1 4th AFC Central --
1998 6 10 0 4th AFC Central --
1999 8 8 0 3rd AFC Central --
2000 12 4 0 2nd AFC Central Won Wild Card Playoffs (Broncos) 21-3
Won Divisional Playoffs (Titans) 24-10
Won Conference Championship (Raiders) 16-3
Won Super Bowl XXXV (Giants) 34-7
2001 10 6 0 2nd AFC Central Won Wild Card Playoffs 20-3 (Dolphins)
Lost Divisional Playoffs (Steelers) 10-27
2002 7 9 0 3rd AFC North --
2003 10 6 0 1st AFC North Lost Wild Card Playoffs (Titans) 17-20
2004 9 7 0 2nd AFC North --
2005 6 10 0 3rd AFC North --
2006 13 3 0 1st AFC North Lost Divisional Playoffs (Colts) 6-15
2007 0 0 0 --- AFC North --
Totals 91 84 1 (1996-2006, regular season)
5 3 0 (1996-2007, playoffs)
96 87 1 (all games, 1996-2007, including playoffs)

(obtained from wikipedia.org)