Let's All Be Thankful Ravens' Fans Today

by Bruce Raffel on Nov 26, 2009 10:45 AM EST Comment 13 comments

Thanksgiving gives us a day to be thankful for all the things we have in life and the NFL gives us a great day and night of football along with it. On the subject of what the NFL gives us, we have our Baltimore Ravens to be thankful for. While this season and some of the past ones have been anything but ones that we would ever think of thanking the team for their performances, we must not lose sight of the fact that at least we not only have a pro football team, but a competitive one at that.

While we have lost a bunch of close games this season that has many of us creeping closer to the edge of the ledge, our Ravens have been in them until the very end. Not every team can say that and even some of the better ones have been on the losing end of lopsided losses. Pick your poison, but our five losses have been by a grand total of 23 points, with ten of those 23 points being the losing margin in one loss (2nd Cincinnati Bengals' game), meaning the other four losses have been by a total of just 13 points!

Therefore, before we go lamenting the state of the franchise and our frustrations with just being an average team when it appeared earlier this season that perhaps we can go deep into the post season, let's be thankful at least for today for what the entire Baltimore Ravens organization has given to us over the years since pro football returned to Baltimore. Long run-on sentence, but hopefully I got my point across. At least for today, okay folks?

Enjoy the games and then let's focus on beating the Pittsburgh Steelers!

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Happy Thanksgiving to all

I’m off to Rockville for the feast with all my folks, I hope all of you have a great day!

Bruce, you got me to thinkin… if we DID fire Cam Cameron… one guy I’d take pretty much without hesitation is Mike Martz. That is, if he’s not one of those guys who only wants to be a head coach. But he’s sitting there on NFL network and I’m pretty sure sitting in the booth at M&T would pay more than that…

And if he knows the history of the past decade, then he knows that the fast track back to being a head coach again is to be a coordinator for the ravens…

"Just win baby. Yeah, I stole that."
--Jon Gruden

by jackmca on Nov 26, 2009 12:13 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I heard yesterday that he might be going somewhere,

but can’t remember where. It was to be with guy he coached with at St. Louis.

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Nov 26, 2009 3:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

hes been rumored with the buffalo bills

by sam_ravens on Nov 26, 2009 11:44 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

And Chicago

by ATXRaven on Nov 27, 2009 2:35 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, that's it- Chi-town

He’s coached w/ Lovie in St. Louis. O-Coodinator for the Bears, makes total sense.

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Nov 27, 2009 8:37 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I am thankful for

- Cam Cameron
- Pass Interference
- Not using LeRon McClain with 1 yard to go on first down at the goal line
- Never having an elite, deep threat WR
- McGahee eating up $40 million and not allowing us to get a big time WR
- Harbaugh’s timeouts
- Harbaugh giving admiring each and every team we lose to
- Harbaugh stating that “Steve Hauschka is going to the a great kicker in this league”
- Ray Lewis, bottom line
- Referees
- Steelers not sweeping us……..yet
- raven

You have to hate losing more than you love winning.

by Mr MaLoR on Nov 26, 2009 12:36 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

I know the last two you really mean, but

the rest…?

aka 'Rexx'

by Bruce Raffel on Nov 26, 2009 3:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Yeah, if you're gonna be

sarcastic, be consistent about it. Otherwise, you just confuse the rest of us.

by Psychropod on Nov 26, 2009 4:38 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

MaLoR is just confused overall today

Instead of turkey, he had fried chicken!!!

"We're only going to score 17 points?!" - Tom Brady

by iLL on Nov 26, 2009 10:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

This does not happen too often..............

Off the field we have a lot in common. We are all brothers in the greatest country in to world in spite of what the liberal media and politicians say. We have done more to bring security and freedom to the world than any country in the history of the world. People aren’t sneaking across the border to try to get into France. They all want to come here. That we are members of the citizenry of this country is something to be thankful for. I have fought and led men into battle in 3 different wars on two different continents and I, like many,many of my fellow veterans didn’t just do it for the people they know – they did it for you too. Let us not forget that regardless of where we live or what team we root for that we are all still brothers. God Bless America.

Here I am a Bengals fan who will be rooting big time for a team to beat the Steelers only so they another chance to beat the Bengals. Good luck and here is to the hope of a Steelerless playoff year.

" My enemy said "Love your enemy". I obeyed and loved myself." Gibran

by JUNGLEJOHN on Nov 27, 2009 9:26 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

Pretty sure the liberal media and politicians don’t say we aren’t brothers (and sisters) in the greatest county on earth ever created by God for this universe or any other. Stop quoting Sean Hannity, Bill O’Really?!?, and especially Glen Beck. They are the ones who want to drive a spike between the nation. I am a respectful Liberal who has to put up with this constantly. I am completely respectful of the right, despite the fact that am a super leftist…. hell, I married a Republican! Also, people try to sneak into France all the time… and Germany and most of the other. Since the EU allowed much of the Eastern Block in (and thus opened up the borders) the East has been doing the same that everyone hates the Mexicans for in this country. So calm down with that junk. And thank you JungleJohn for your service even though you hate my guts… believe it or not, as a liberal I can support and pray for the troops without spontaneously catching fire. I adamantly support the troops, just not necessarily those who may have sent them to places in the first place… please don’t confuse the two. Leave politics and religion and everything besides football at the door if you are going to be prejudice.

That being said, God Bless everyone this weekend and every weekend… especially through the holidays. Hope everyone had a happy thanksgiving and has a great holiday season.

by ATXRaven on Nov 27, 2009 2:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I do not hate you. I hate the destructive liberal policies of the left

I did not quote anyone other than myself and I will speak mi mind anywhere I like. How ever if Bruce asks me to I will follow his requests. You liberals have the entire TV and print media expressing liberal venom. I am not a Republican, I am a conservative and I will not be silenced..

" My enemy said "Love your enemy". I obeyed and loved myself." Gibran

by JUNGLEJOHN on Nov 29, 2009 10:29 PM EST reply actions 0 recs