Posts with players, coaches, and other topics from the Baltimore Ravens for The Football History Dude podcast, covering the history of the NFL.
Today we have Super Bowl XLVII, held on February 3, 2013 at Mercedes-Benz Superdome between the six-time NFC champion San Francisco 49ers and the two-time AFC champion Baltimore Ravens. As always, we have a pop quiz, and then homework at the end of the episode. The pop quiz question for today is: the Ravens’ kicker … Read more
Baltimore professional football history is like a good soap opera; heroes to love and villains to hate, lots of drama, high highs, low lows, intricate plots, drama, rascals that provide necessary humor, and did I mention drama. Yes indeed, Charm City has been blessed and cursed by the mythical professional football gods and now stands … Read more
Since today is Christmas Day, I thought it would be fitting to spend today’s episode looking back on the first National Football League games to be played on Christmas, and the circumstances that led to those games being the only ones of their kind for almost 20 years. Today, we’re going back to 1971. This … Read more
Today, we’re going to talk about another one of the most dominant defenses in NFL history: the 2000 Baltimore Ravens. That defense allowed only 165 points in the regular season, less than even the 1985 Bears and the 1972 Dolphins. Just like those two teams, the Ravens won the Super Bowl that year, but with … Read more
When you were a kid did you ever pretend you were living some of the greatest sport’s moments of all time? This week’s guests, John Eisenberg, talks about just that. However, he took it to the next level. He would head inside to his typewriter and retell the story as if he were a beat … Read more