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Purple Reign

WNST STORY OF GLORY No. 1: The New Orleans Super Bowl 2:52 march in February that you’ll never forget

Nestor Aparicio

If you were in New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII on February 3, 2013, you were probably down at the river meeting us the greatest purple march in the history of the Baltimore Ravens fan base. Thousands of you met us at the Natchez down at the Mississippi River to march 17 blocks at 2:52 to watch Joe Flacco throw and the lights go out at the Superdome. Where were you in the parade of purple on Poydras?

Joe Flacco: Coming back to Baltimore to set the record straight on Cleveland

Baltimore Positive

We’ve been writing about and talking to Joe Flacco about football since the day he was drafted in Baltimore in 2008. After an amazing December run in Cleveland, our Super Bowl XLVII MVP comes back home to discuss what made his fairy tale ride with the Browns so special and to set the record straight on his Ravens’ fire and legacy as a winner.

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Purple Reign 2: Chapter 8 “Just a regular Joe”

Nestor Aparicio

With all of the excitement around the play of Joe Flacco leading the Cleveland Browns, here’s the best biography of his life and career ever written. You’ll learn a lot about what makes Joe Cool so cool. Enjoy Chapter 8 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio penned this #RavensFlock classic in 2013 after Flacco was the Super Bowl 47 MVP in New Orleans.

Siragusa

Tackling the legacy of Goose and The Bullies of Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

Immediately following the ESPN “30 For 30” presentation of the 2001 Super Bowl XXXV champion Baltimore Ravens, Luke Jones and Nestor tackle the hard knocks of the Bullies of Baltimore and the road to the memories of glory in Tampa.

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Purple Reign 2: Chapter 21 “For Baltimore, a second Pa-RAY-ed”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 21 and final of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Nestor Aparicio has released the 2013 book here over recent weeks to prepare #RavensFlock for NFL season. This is the biggest parade in the history of Baltimore.

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Purple Reign 2: Chapter 17 “The Last Ride of 52”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 17 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing the 2013 book chapter by chapter daily. This is the last dance downtown for Ray Lewis in purple.

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Purple Reign 2: Chapter 14 “Family beefs and Care-frontation”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 14 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Ravens Super Bowl win in New Orleans.

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Purple Reign 2: Chapter 10 “The sad loss of a great work of Art”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 10 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to get #RavensFlock ready for NFL season. Hear Art Modell tell his life story here.

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Purple Reign 2: Chapter 13 “The Legend of 4th and 29”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 13 of “#PurpleReign2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to celebrate start of NFL year. The greatest play in history of #RavensFlock.

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Purple Reign 2: Chapter 11 “Fall forward and the story of Torrey Smith”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 11 of “#PurpleReign2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author, radio host & entrepreneur @NestorAparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to celebrate the start of NFL slate. @TwentyER @TorreySmithWR @JoeFlacco @RayLewis #RavensFlock #SuperBowlXLVII

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Purple Reign 2: Chapter 4 “Ravens always begins with Ray”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 4 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Ravens Super Bowl win in New Orleans.

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Purple Reign 1: Chapter 16 “Everyone Loves a Parade

Nestor Aparicio

I hate parades. I don’t watch them on television. I don’t attend them. I don’t even understand the point of them. Prior to Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001, I had been to one parade in my life, and I didn’t like it.

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Purple Reign 1: Chapter 15 “Festivus Maximus”

Nestor Aparicio

The news reports came fast and furious on the Monday before the Super Bowl. Just a day into the biggest week of my life, and the reporters couldn’t wait to track me down with the latest news. One of the Ravens’ team buses, leaving a downtown pep rally for BWI Airport and a charter flight to Tampa, had been involved in an accident, hitting a police cruiser.

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The ghosts of Memorial Stadium and the legend of Tony Siragusa

Baltimore Positive

Before Ray Lewis entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton in 2018, Tony Siragusa took Nestor into the last century and what powered the greatest defense in the history of the game – even back in the days of Ted Marchibroda and 33rd Street.

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Purple Reign 1: Chapter 13 “Anthony Who? – The Music City Mugging”

Nestor Aparicio

“When you go into the lion’s den, you don’t tippy-toe in. You carry a spear! You go in screaming like a banshee and say, Where is the son of a bitch?” The legend and #PurpleReign lore of #RavensFlock win in Nashville and Ray Lewis > Eddie George. @NestorAparicio presents his 2001 SB35 epic tale.

Chapter 10

Purple Reign 1: Chapter 10 “Moving To The Dark Side”

Nestor Aparicio

Two things were pretty obvious to everyone who watched the 2000 Baltimore Ravens during the first half of the season. When they passed the ball, they made mistakes and were ineffective. But each time they tried to run the football with any consistency, they succeeded.

WNST STORY OF GLORY No. 1: The New Orleans Super Bowl 2:52 march in February that you’ll never forget

Nestor Aparicio

If you were in New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII on February 3, 2013, you were probably down at the river meeting us the greatest purple march in the history of the Baltimore Ravens fan base. Thousands of you met us at the Natchez down at the Mississippi River to march 17 blocks at 2:52 to watch Joe Flacco throw and the lights go out at the Superdome. Where were you in the parade of purple on Poydras?

Joe Flacco: Coming back to Baltimore to set the record straight on Cleveland

Baltimore Positive

We’ve been writing about and talking to Joe Flacco about football since the day he was drafted in Baltimore in 2008. After an amazing December run in Cleveland, our Super Bowl XLVII MVP comes back home to discuss what made his fairy tale ride with the Browns so special and to set the record straight on his Ravens’ fire and legacy as a winner.

Screen Shot 2022 07 23 at 5.18.24 PM

Purple Reign 2: Chapter 8 “Just a regular Joe”

Nestor Aparicio

With all of the excitement around the play of Joe Flacco leading the Cleveland Browns, here’s the best biography of his life and career ever written. You’ll learn a lot about what makes Joe Cool so cool. Enjoy Chapter 8 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio penned this #RavensFlock classic in 2013 after Flacco was the Super Bowl 47 MVP in New Orleans.

Siragusa

Tackling the legacy of Goose and The Bullies of Baltimore

Baltimore Positive

Immediately following the ESPN “30 For 30” presentation of the 2001 Super Bowl XXXV champion Baltimore Ravens, Luke Jones and Nestor tackle the hard knocks of the Bullies of Baltimore and the road to the memories of glory in Tampa.

Screen Shot 2022 07 24 at 3.15.12 PM

Purple Reign 2: Chapter 21 “For Baltimore, a second Pa-RAY-ed”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 21 and final of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Nestor Aparicio has released the 2013 book here over recent weeks to prepare #RavensFlock for NFL season. This is the biggest parade in the history of Baltimore.

Screen Shot 2022 07 02 at 4.42.36 AM

Purple Reign 2: Chapter 17 “The Last Ride of 52”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 17 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing the 2013 book chapter by chapter daily. This is the last dance downtown for Ray Lewis in purple.

Screen Shot 2022 07 23 at 6.11.25 AM

Purple Reign 2: Chapter 14 “Family beefs and Care-frontation”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 14 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Ravens Super Bowl win in New Orleans.

Screen Shot 2022 07 02 at 4.51.33 AM

Purple Reign 2: Chapter 10 “The sad loss of a great work of Art”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 10 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to get #RavensFlock ready for NFL season. Hear Art Modell tell his life story here.

Screen Shot 2022 07 24 at 12.13.13 AM

Purple Reign 2: Chapter 13 “The Legend of 4th and 29”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 13 of “#PurpleReign2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to celebrate start of NFL year. The greatest play in history of #RavensFlock.

Screen Shot 2022 07 23 at 10.57.29 PM

Purple Reign 2: Chapter 11 “Fall forward and the story of Torrey Smith”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 11 of “#PurpleReign2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author, radio host & entrepreneur @NestorAparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to celebrate the start of NFL slate. @TwentyER @TorreySmithWR @JoeFlacco @RayLewis #RavensFlock #SuperBowlXLVII

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Purple Reign 2: Chapter 4 “Ravens always begins with Ray”

Nestor Aparicio

This is Chapter 4 of “Purple Reign 2: Faith, Family & Football – A Baltimore Love Story.” Author and radio host and entrepreneur Nestor Aparicio is releasing it chapter by chapter daily to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the Ravens Super Bowl win in New Orleans.

Screen Shot 2022 07 02 at 4.58.00 AM

Purple Reign 1: Chapter 16 “Everyone Loves a Parade

Nestor Aparicio

I hate parades. I don’t watch them on television. I don’t attend them. I don’t even understand the point of them. Prior to Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2001, I had been to one parade in my life, and I didn’t like it.

Screen Shot 2022 07 02 at 3.51.35 AM

Purple Reign 1: Chapter 15 “Festivus Maximus”

Nestor Aparicio

The news reports came fast and furious on the Monday before the Super Bowl. Just a day into the biggest week of my life, and the reporters couldn’t wait to track me down with the latest news. One of the Ravens’ team buses, leaving a downtown pep rally for BWI Airport and a charter flight to Tampa, had been involved in an accident, hitting a police cruiser.

Screen Shot 2022 06 30 at 3.53.47 AM

The ghosts of Memorial Stadium and the legend of Tony Siragusa

Baltimore Positive

Before Ray Lewis entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton in 2018, Tony Siragusa took Nestor into the last century and what powered the greatest defense in the history of the game – even back in the days of Ted Marchibroda and 33rd Street.

Screen Shot 2022 06 28 at 10.21.46 PM

Purple Reign 1: Chapter 13 “Anthony Who? – The Music City Mugging”

Nestor Aparicio

“When you go into the lion’s den, you don’t tippy-toe in. You carry a spear! You go in screaming like a banshee and say, Where is the son of a bitch?” The legend and #PurpleReign lore of #RavensFlock win in Nashville and Ray Lewis > Eddie George. @NestorAparicio presents his 2001 SB35 epic tale.

Chapter 10

Purple Reign 1: Chapter 10 “Moving To The Dark Side”

Nestor Aparicio

Two things were pretty obvious to everyone who watched the 2000 Baltimore Ravens during the first half of the season. When they passed the ball, they made mistakes and were ineffective. But each time they tried to run the football with any consistency, they succeeded.

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