Editing Baltimore Ravens (section)

===Team name===
The name "Ravens" was inspired by [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s poem ''[[The Raven]]''.<ref name="NamingBaltimoresTeam" /><ref>{{cite web |title=Franchise nicknames |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/news/franchise-nicknames/ |publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC |website=ProFootballHOF.com |date=January 1, 2005 |access-date=February 25, 2020 |archive-date=May 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190503151411/https://www.profootballhof.com/news/franchise-nicknames/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Chosen in a fan contest that drew 33,288 voters, the allusion honors Poe who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore and is buried there.<ref>{{cite web |title=Baltimore Ravens Team History |url=https://www.profootballhof.com/teams/baltimore-ravens/team-history/ |publisher=NFL Enterprises, LLC |website=ProFootballHOF.com |access-date=February 25, 2020 |archive-date=August 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806111754/https://www.profootballhof.com/teams/baltimore-ravens/team-history/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Other names polled included "Marauders", "Americans", and "Bombers", among others.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shaffer |first1=Jonas |title=Twenty years ago, the Ravens got their name. Here were the other serious and silly options |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-20-years-ago-the-ravens-got-their-name-here-were-the-other-serious-and-silly-options-20160329-story.html |access-date=September 19, 2020 |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |date=March 29, 2016 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227172545/https://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/bal-20-years-ago-the-ravens-got-their-name-here-were-the-other-serious-and-silly-options-20160329-story.html |archive-date=February 27, 2022}}</ref> As ''[[The Baltimore Sun]]'' reported at the time, fans also "liked the tie-in with the other birds in town, [[Baltimore Orioles|the Orioles]], and found it easy to visualize a tough, menacing black bird".<ref>{{cite news |last=Morgan |first=Jon |title=Ravens never out of focus: Probable NFL name consistent favorite in polls, group research |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1996/03/29/ravens-never-out-of-focus-probable-nfl-name-consistent-favorite-in-polls-group-research/ |newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |date=March 29, 1996 |access-date=June 15, 2016 |archive-date=October 5, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005115523/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-03-29/sports/1996089150_1_ravens-nfl-team-phone-in-poll |url-status=live}}</ref> Edgar Allan Poe also had distant [[Poe brothers|relatives]] who played football for the [[Princeton Tigers]] in the 1880s through the early 1900s. These brothers were famous players in the early days of American football.

Before the football team, there was the Baltimore Ravens wheelchair basketball team — the original Baltimore Ravens.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pollak |first=Lisa |title=THE OTHER RAVENS They lacked money, prestige – heck, even the right equipment. But they were extraordinary athletes with extraordinary determination. Long before football came back to town, this was Baltimore's dream team. |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-09-01-1996245078-story.html |newspaper=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |date=September 1, 1996 |access-date=March 30, 2020 |archive-date=December 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191223092048/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1996-09-01-1996245078-story.html |url-status=live}}</ref> In 1972, the Ravens wheelchair basketball team was founded by Ralph Smith, long-term resident of Baltimore, second Vice President of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) and Member of the NWBA Hall of Fame.<ref name="NWBA 2014">{{cite web |author=NWBA |title=Ralph Smith |website=National Wheelchair Basketball Association |date=August 17, 2014 |url=https://www.nwba.org/news_article/show/540657-ralph-smith |access-date=August 28, 2020 |archive-date=April 29, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210429022723/https://www.nwba.org/news_article/show/540657-ralph-smith |url-status=live}}</ref> The name "Ravens" was inspired by Bob Ardinger, a member of the Ravens wheelchair basketball team. In the 1990s, the naming rights were later sold to the football team when they came to the city and the wheelchair basketball team became known as the Maryland Ravens.