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Thread: 2 Super Bowl Rings in 17 years
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02-22-2013, 02:19 PM #37
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02-22-2013, 03:04 PM #39
Re: 2 Super Bowl Rings in 17 years
I can't see how our five Championships grew to ten, unless also counting CFL, USFL, AAFC, the conference championship of 1964, the NFL win followed by the Super Bowl loss of 1968, etc. The five were:
1958 "Greatest Game Ever Played"
1959
1971
2002
2012
Pittsburgh, who has been around since the 1930s, has earned more Championships (6) than Baltimore (5 Championships since 1950).
If you want to keep more recent comparisons: Pitt is 2-2 since 1995; Baltimore is 2-0.In a 2003 BBC poll that asked Brits to name the "Greatest American Ever", Mr. T came in fourth, behind ML King (3rd), Abe Lincoln (2nd) and Homer Simpson (1st).
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02-22-2013, 03:09 PM #40
Re: 2 Super Bowl Rings in 17 years
The Only Thing that counts is World Championships, and '68 was not one of them. To be honest and fair, Baltimore has 5 World Championships, not six(, but Baltimore has won World Championships at a faster rate than has Pittsburgh, for those interested in this sort of thing, which I am)!
"Grab those pusillanimous sons-a-bitches by the nose and kick 'em in the balls.." General George S. Patton
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02-22-2013, 03:35 PM #41Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: 2 Super Bowl Rings in 17 years
I like the positive tone of the post/thread, and I agree. OTOH, it's hard not to wonder how many more super bowls the Ravens might have won, especially in 2011, if Cam Cameron had been fired a year or two earlier. (And before the cry goes out: "Hindsight is always 20-20", there were plenty of folks, myself included, who called for his firing years before it came to pass.) But anyway...time to look to the future and bigger, brighter things to come.
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02-22-2013, 04:11 PM #43Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: 2 Super Bowl Rings in 17 years
Exactly. Especially when one understands how difficult it is to get that brass ring. But at least for now, things are looking bright. (I have an ominous feeling that Caldwell is going to be a one year rental, and that after the 2013 season someone is going to hire him as a HC, but that's too far down the road to deal with right now.)
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02-23-2013, 11:10 AM #44Legendary RSR Poster
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02-23-2013, 12:20 PM #45Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: 2 Super Bowl Rings in 17 years
It's all well and good to focus on that one play. OTOH, the Ravens went 3 and out in their first 6 possessions. And that doesn't even get into the fact that the Ravens could have easily won home field advantage by beating teams they should have beaten earlier in the year. So really...there's no way of getting around the negative impact that Cameron had on the team.
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02-23-2013, 12:34 PM #46Veteran Poster
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Re: 2 Super Bowl Rings in 17 years
They should have won it all in 2010 too. If not for a Ray Rice fumble, Flacco Int, and Birk snapping the ball into Flacco's leg, the Ravens would have beaten the Steelers going away, and then faced a weak Jets team, and then the Packers, whom I think they would have beaten. The 2010-2011 Ravens were a great team, the best in football those years.
The 2006 team was the best in football that year too, only to fall to the Colts, whom they were heavy favorites to beat. They didn't adjust their game plan to compensate for Indy's fast, small defense, and McNair threw a terrible pick that changed the complexion of the game.
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02-23-2013, 03:06 PM #48Pro Bowl Poster
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