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So....I got another "Ravens Pride!" reminder in my inbox just now...

Seriously, I'm tempted to buy a Colts tshirt just for tomorrow (Not that I have "Colts Pride!" or anything, and I would totally use it to clean windows or something later on...maybe I'll just wear blue and white.

Someone suggested wearing a Colts shirt around the Harbor tomorrow night and Saturday. Which could be entertaining...that is to say, it could be entertaining to watch someone else doing that.

Me, I think I'll be giving the Harbor a wide berth this weekend.

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I don't care about the Ravens but I love Baltimore

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

well, I'm not a football fan, either, but I am a proud Baltimoron, and this game is a Very Big Deal (tm) for reasons that have nothing to do with football.

I was trying to explain all this to one of my coworkers this morning in the elevator, and he was like "but that was like 22 years ago!" and I was all "what difference does that make???"

Re: I don't care about the Ravens but I love Baltimore

[fuego.livejournal.com]

what, they sold the team to Indianapolis and now they're coming back to play each other?

Re: I don't care about the Ravens but I love Baltimore

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

yeah, see, it's SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT.

Basically, Ersay got a better stadium deal and he just up and moved the team to Indianapolis in the middle of the night with no word, no warning, no notice, no nothing ... he just packed up those Mayflower trucks and skedaddled. And in so doing he broke the spirit of the city, as well as the whole state of Maryland.

It's not like Cleveland. Not at all. Cleveland had an opportunity to counter-offer, and besides, Cleveland got to keep their name. The name "The Colts" was so integral to civic pride. The Colts were Baltimore, like the Orioles, except they won.

I never understood how important a team was to civic pride until I lived in Tampa during the Bucs Renaissance of '97 and I saw it take shape before my eyes. And although I was in high school during the great Ersay Betrayal and felt the anger of it just like everyone else, it wasn't until twelve years later that I really understood that anger and how tied up it was in place and identity.

Re: I don't care about the Ravens but I love Baltimore

[fuego.livejournal.com]

oooohkay.

so um, maybe it's cause I came from a much smaller city with no pro team of its own but...still don't get the big hoo-ha.

meh.

I will be steering clear of Pratt Street, for sure.

Re: I don't care about the Ravens but I love Baltimore

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

Well, more concisely, nobody says "fuck you" to a Baltimoron and gets away with it.

Ersay said a big "fuck you" and more or less got away with it.