If befits you living much better the East Coast, consider heading east toward Baltimore. The city is nestled just on top of the Chesapeake Bay and is only about a 2 hour's drive from the Atlantic Atlantic ocean. Sports fans can enjoy Baltimore Orioles baseball or Baltimore Ravens football, right in the heart of the downtown area. Again, there many minor league teams nearby too which includes the Hagerstown Suns and Frederick Keys baseball teams.

 

 

Joe Flacco was offered and accepted a scholarship to play football at Pitt. His freshman year he was redshirted and did not play. The other year he saw limited playing period and was pulled ahead of by another quarterback, Tyler Palko. Palko wound program a good, but not great, college career at Pitt and these days Baker Mayfield is a back-up quarterback in the NFL. Joe Flacco once were again judged as inferior but, as disappointing as that to be able to be, he once again persevered.

One popular tradition at Orioles games that back again to the 1970s may be the accenting belonging to the letter "O" when singing the line "Oh, say does that." from the Star Spangled Title. The "oh" is accented by yelling out "O!" The pronunciation from the vowel also distinguishes the Baltimorean highlight. Some argue that the shrieking of the "O" is disrespectful. But Baltimoreans argue that, since Francis Scott Key wrote the Anthem in their harbor in 1812 War, then there is a right to sing it however besides.

AFC North - By far the easiest division to calculate. The Baltimore Ravens have given a core of receivers for Joe Flacco to throw to from Anquan Boldin, TJ Houshmanzadeh, Donte Stallworth certainly not forget about Derrick Mason. Couple that with Ray Rice in the run game and you have yourself a compelling offensive episode. Oh yea, and Ray Lewis still leads this defense which some are questioning this holiday season. Really? The Baltimore Ravens defense staying questioned. The Bengals is actually going to improved but TO will definitely take you so far before they implode. Big Ben dissapear for 4 games for that Steelers so their chances will be slim from the time he gets back so hunt for Baltimore acquire the part.

In week 3, the disorganized Bengals visit Giants Stadium. The Bengals finished the 2007 regular season 7-9, and missed the playoffs. The Bengals players have had lots of problems there are many field and star receiver Chad Johnson has asked to be changed. The Bengals selected linebacker Keith Rivers from USC utilizing 9th pick in the initial round on the 2008 NFL Draft.

The Atlanta offense arrived to the week 14 game with the Carolina Panthers ranked 2nd ultimately NFL on third-down converting 45.6 percent of its third downs. Today the Falcon's were 2-8 against a 3-9 Carolina Panthers team who is terrible on the run. Atlanta will a lot more finish a powerful regular season with a disappointing playoff loss. Feel Ryan generally is a better than average NFL quarterback, he is just missing the command and power to break from hump of good to great.

Jordan Gross is back from injury and healthy as ever, and both the great running backs that the Panthers have cultivated are entering the primes with the careers as running buttocks. That is a scary proposition for the remainder of the NFL, as had been looking already among the best in the league. Williams had one more 1000 yard season, and has learned to catch a few passes out the backfield. Stewart is now beyond the rookie jitters and looks about as dominant 1 could a method of in only his third year. They are ready attain huge several years.

Most notably, Wes Welker is out with injury moms and dads England and will also hurt. Additionally, these two team met in week 3, as well as the Pats only won by 6 aspects. Can Baltimore build on their last experience and pull through this period?