The Orioles will celebrate the Ravens Super Bowl XLVII victory during their pregame video prior to today’s home opener against the Twins. MASNSports.com’s Roch Kubatko writes that the O’s were hoping someone (anyone remaining) from the team would make an appearance at Camden Yards, but had no such luck.
Also, I’ve heard rumblings that the pregame ceremony will include a video tribute to the Ravens, who won their second Super Bowl in February. However, I’ve also heard that the Orioles extended invitations to some members of the organization that were declined.
The Orioles apparently reached out to general manager Ozzie Newsome, head coach John Harbaugh and quarterback Joe Flacco, among others, but they were unavailable.
Seems like things still aren’t great between Baltimore’s two teams after their scheduling conflict on September 5 caused the NFL to move the Ravens season opener on the road. No one out at Owings Mills seems to be upset with Roger Goodell though. At least not publicly.
He’s the commissioner that wouldn’t move the Ravens game to Wednesday or Sunday to accomodate Baltimore.
The great unwashed Pink Hats of Baltimore will place all of this on Peter Angelos.
Why? Is what they know, it’s what they do, it’s who they are.
Taxes go up? Angelos had something to do with it. Crime rates go up? Angelos is behind it.
After all, he has all those MASN millions that he hides from MLB and the 29 other teams and that rag Forbes magazine.
Ed Reed gone? Probably mad at Angelos for not moving the 5 September game.
The Orioles and Black Sox should pay for not moving their meaningless game to earlier in the day. The Sox should receive a hostile welcome upon landing in Baltimore and should be harassed in their hotel and on their bus to the game. Demonstrations should occur outside the game, and anyone wearing anything but Ravens regalia to the game should be taunted. Things should be thrown on the field to disrupt the game at least once during the game, and any attempt to prompt chants in support of the Orioles should be met with R-A-V-E-N-S! Make the Orioles’ ownership and management worms regret that the Super Bowl Champion Ravens are starting on the road. Make this the worst PR nightmare in Orioles history!
You clearly are an idiot. The Orioles, Sox, and MLB did say they would play the game earlier in the day. Both the O’s and Ravens decided that would be logistically impossible.
September games aren’t meaningless. That’s when teams are in pennant races and both the O’s and Sox could be.
The MLB had every reason to not change their already scheduled game. The NFL had no reason not to just SCHEDULE (not even RE-schedule) their game on Wednesday. The NFL played Sunday Night Football on Rosh Hashanah last year and they held the season opener on Wednesday last year. You know why they refused to move the Ravens game to accommodate fans? Ratings. That’s it. You got effed by the NFL, not the O’s.
I hope the Ravens are not invited to the Orioles World Series parade….i hope they are keeping Spy company on someone else’s bandwagon.
Every one forgets the Ravens moved two of their games in 1999 and 2001 for the O’s,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,you can bet the possibility of moving the O’s game for the Ravens never got past Peter the Great,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the O’s will never win a world championship with him as an owner , please see O’s record under his ownership for proof,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the former comments are without proof , try stating things with documentation people,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Come on man. In 1999 and 2001 they were PRESEASON games that the Ravens scheduled around the Orioles. Nobody cares about preseason football. If they didn’t force season ticket holders to buy the damn tickets for preseason games they probably wouldn’t even sell out. That’s why they didn’t care about playing earlier (and it was only an hour earlier.
“In 1999 and 2001, the Ravens played preseason home games against the New York Giants with noon kickoffs to accomodate Orioles home games that were scheduled for the same evening.”
Again, the O’s said they would play earlier in the day but both teams decided it would be logistically impossible.
This is all on the NFL.
The Ravens draw a larger crowd for a pre-season game than the O’s regular games ,,,,,,,,,,check the attendence records for those games,,,,,,,,,,get real man…………………
That doesn’t change the fact that they’re meaningless preseason games that they moved for the Orioles whereas on September 5 the Orioles (and/or the White Sox) could be playing very important late season games.
And I would still be willing to bet that if NFL teams didn’t force season ticket holders to buy preseason they wouldn’t sell out any of those games.
Don’t hold your breath on that Sept. 5th game being important to the O’s , that has only happened in Sept. once in the last fifteen years , remember…………………
You know, you got your Oriole lovers that think the Orioles can do no wrong like MGW, 9Incher, and Nick. You got your Raven Lovers that think the Ravens can do no wrong like Raven Maniac and Spy.
I am a Raven and Oriole fan but am more on the Ravens side. Now no one knows all the behind the scenes shit that went on with the scheduling conflict othe than the reps from MLB, NFL and the teams involved. I haven’t said a word on it one way or the other because I don’t know.
Sure and I’m being truthful, I would love to blame Angelos and the Orioles but I don’t know who is at fault and who wouldn’t cave in so I don’t say anything.
And another thing… This thing is so old that Chow and Spy have split and made up several times now and honestly I just don’t care to hear about it. It’s over, so drop it.
You got MGW with his “Pink Hat” Raven reference
You got 9Incher with his, well… 9 incher
You got Spy in his “Li Red Corvette”
You got Chow running roughshod over the buyers at the Goodwill Thrift Shop
You got me in a hottub with two female hotties, Kim Kardashian is rubbing suntan lotion on my back and my butler, Pole, is getting me drinks
I bet pole is in the tub with you………………by the way , li’l red corvettes never get old…………..
I more mad about Goodell being a huge hypocrite. Says he doesn’t want to ruin the sanctity of the first eve of Rosh Hashanah (spelling?) by having a game on Wednesday, yet the NFL had a game on the first eve of Rosh Hashanah last season. So the NFL can schedule games basically whenever they want (including DURING THE WORLD SERIES) yet they expect the MLB to cater to their needs? Baloney.
It’s a pity and I’m not blaming either team… With the Orioles now playing at a high level, add to that the Ravens being the Champs, there can be alot of goodwill towards the fans. Think of all the dual marketing these two teams could pull off.
This is a classic switchover that could elicit so much goodwill in the comng years.
Both teams need to come down off their high horses and sit at the table and hammer out some type of agreement and put the fans first.
Think of the fanfests they could have together. Not saying stop the ones they have now but they could combine a couple small ones a year. Head over to some local schools together…
One positive from all of this, if Opening Day is any indication, the fans at the game are two things- Ravens fans and younger…neither of which are bad. So why the two teams fight to be number one in the hearts of Baltimore sport fans, the fans have room to support two teams. Been going to opening days and O’s games for a long time, the energy on Friday was electric…thanks in large part to Ravens fans.
There is no battle to be number one,,,,,,,,the Ravens have held that spot for a very long time and will continue to hold it,,,,,,,,,,,,,,want proof , look who the owners are………………