Luke Jones and Nestor get caught up on Orioles baseball as Nats come to Camden Yards

It has been said that you need to crawl before you can walk. For the 2000 Baltimore Ravens, much of that crawling was done during the end of the 1999 season. Before Shannon Sharpe came to play. While Trent Dilfer was still sitting on the bench in Tampa Bay, waiting for redemption. While Jamal Lewis and Travis Taylor were still attending college classes and hoping to become first-round draft picks in the NFL.

Mayor Brandon Scott joins Nestor at Next Phaze Cafe to discuss future of sports in Baltimore

Nestor welcomes The Baltimore Banner leadership team to Slainte to talk media and future of our city

Next Phaze Cafe owner Tony Randall serves up a tasty downtown crab cake to Nestor for Juneteenth

The 26-year-old was preparing for his fourth NFL season and had taken part in last week's minicamp.

While the 2000 Baltimore Ravens will always receive credit from fans and foes alike for being the team that allowed the fewest points in NFL history – and punctuated that task with a defensive unit shutout in Super Bowl XXXV – only four men can properly put into perspective the pain, the growth and the joy of a group that ultimately captured greatness.

Nestor remembers the life and times and laughs and tackles of Tony Siragusa with Luke Jones

Marty Conway joins Nestor to discuss what went wrong with Baltimore bid to host World Cup 2026

Purple Reign, Chapter 5: "Canton Comes to Baltimore" Nestor recounts what an outpost franchise the Ravens were when Rod Woodson and Shannon Sharpe showed up in Owings Mills

From Ozzie Newsome and Phil Savage, the Ravens dominance began on their first draft day in 1996. Nestor takes you inside that inaugural War Room that netted Jonathan Ogden and Ray Lewis.

Christina Pelletier of Weis Markets offers Nestor some healthy snack ideas for summer living

Seattle Mariners broadcaster Dave Sims talks baseball and its future with Nestor at Luna Del Sea

The Ravens came to Miami on Sept. 17, 2000, for the first time in their five-year existence and the fans from Baltimore were out in force. It was the first time a Baltimore football franchise had played in South Florida since Dan Marino’s rookie season. A lot had changed from that day in 1983.