8. Ravens winning 11 straight games to take their first Super Bowl title (2000-01)
No one could have possibly imagined the Ravens were about to go on a historic run to their first NFL championship after dropping their third straight game and completing their fifth straight contest without scoring a touchdown upon losing 9-6 to the Pittsburgh Steelers on Oct. 29. Then again, little was typical about Brian Billick’s team in his second season as head coach.
The offense picked it up the following week with Trent Dilfer at the helm — the former backup threw three touchdown passes in a win over Cincinnati — and did its best not to mess things up for a record-breaking defense as the Ravens won their final seven games of the regular season to finish 12-4. The defense rose to a new level in four postseason games by allowing only 23 points — seven coming on a kickoff return for a touchdown in Super Bowl XXXV — to lead Baltimore back to its first NFL championship since the Colts had won Super Bowl V.
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Baltimore Positive is the vision and the creative extension of four decades of sharing the love of local sports for this Dundalk native and University of Baltimore grad, who began his career as a sportswriter and music critic at The News American and The Baltimore Sun in the mid-1980s. Launched radio career in December 1991 with Kenny Albert after covering the AHL Skipjacks. Bought WNST-AM 1570 in July 1998, created WNST.net in 2007 and began diversifying conversations on radio, podcast and social media as Baltimore Positive in 2016. nes@baltimorepositive.com
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