Raiders-Ravens: A Look Back

game in 2001 like it was yesterday… I sat there with my 7 year old brother, I was 11 and I was super crying, because my hopes were so high that I would finally see the Raiders in a Superbowl… I can’t forgive the Ravens for that one… especially the Hated Shannon Sharpe…. I hate him with such a passion…. hopefully the Raiders can pull of this win though…. I believe that the Ravens along with the Chiefs and the Texans and Jaguars, are the only teams that have winning records against us… so I hope that the Raiders’ put a W in the Win column against the Ravens…

Thank you for adding the class that you bring to AN. It is instantly promoted.

Cheers,

Saint

I remember jumping up and down, hitting my head on the ceiling when Sharp broke free to score in the AFC Championship Game (obviously, I’m a Ravens fan!). That season, once we got a 10 point lead, it was “game over” and the same thing happened in the Super Bowl, as that team’s defense was legendary and absolutely was good enough to win games for us. This year is not nearly the same, but they are still pretty much the class of the league, perhaps along with the Titans, Steelers and maybe even the Bucs. I was also at the first Ravens game ever and have missed very few as a season ticket holder since day one. I went to my first road game this past Sunday to see us win in Miami and would be surprised not to see us defend our turf, as coming east is a tall task for Oakland.

Not crying over spilled milk cause the ravens probably still would have won. They were the best team that year but on that catch that sharpe made, Marquez Pope was so blatantly held that it was rediculous and one more thing, Andre Rison caught a td later that game but the refs called it offensive pass interference. Oh well, goes with the territory of being a Raider fan.

This was one day after little Miss specialK was born, so I was pretty much dazed from the events of childbirth (not nearly as much as Mrs doctorK, of course). The game result was pretty much forgotten by me the next day when it was determined the our baby had a cleft palate, which started us on her medical (and eventually special-ed) journey.

I remember all those games well. I have pictures from that first game sitting on my shelf..I sat behind the band on the one yard line during those days at Memorial Stadium. The constant up and down of the band drove everyone crazy. We ended up using the tuba openings as targets for peanuts. I won’t miss those metal bleachers and tiny bathrooms at Memorial. Remember the real classics between the Baltimore Colts and Raiders there. Wow. Always a mud bath.

..was the 1970 AFC Championship Game when the Baltimore Colts defeated the Oakland Raiders 27-17 at Memorial Stadium. I remember sitting on those freezing metal bleachers, having to stomp down the snow to find a place to put my frozen feet. I don’t remember much of the game in specific, other than George Blanda coming in to play QB after the outcome had been decided, and throwing a TD pass. I think he was around 47 years old at that time, and looked older than that.

Ouch. thank god I wasn’t there, but had it tuned in on my AM transistor radio. I was a huge Raider fan in the dark period, when we didn’t have a team in Baltimore (‘84-’95). I still have my Raiders sweats and loved the old rivalry games with the Steelers in the ’70’s. At the same time, the brutal games against the Chiefs were old school to its finest. I recall Chief’s MLB Willie Lanier breaking Fred Belitnikoff’s facemask, yet Fred held onto the ball (can you say, “stickum?”).

Sorry but the memories came flooding back. That’s what us old folks only have left in our miserable lives!

And I don’t mean “Ghost to the Post” though that was obviously great as well. I’m glad you’re posting here, since your AN posts always make great reads. As for that ‘01 AFC championship game, I also remember thinking that when the Ravens beat the Titans in Tenn that we had ’em right where we wanted them. That was one of those years when you knew that the real championship game wasn’t the Super Bowl, it was the AFC game, and WE WERE HOSTING IT! I was so damn excited. That long Sharpe touchdown certainly hurt, but it wasn’t til Siragusa flopped on Gannon that I got the feeling we weren’t coming back. I’m at the point now where I don’t hold it against Siragusa so much ’cause he was just helping his team by using his natural big ass-ets. But I did enjoy the Spike Lee movie " 25th Hour" in which Siragusa, playing the role of a gangster who had turned police informant, was found out and then rubbed out. That made me feel a little better.