The FIRST Ever Ravens Game! (Raiders vs. Ravens 1996, Week 1)
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Check out the 1996 Week 1 game highlights between the Oakland Raiders and Baltimore Ravens!
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Imagine picking Jonathan Ogden and Ray Lewis as your first two picks, two Hall Of Famers. Lucky is a understatement.🖤💜👐🏿
Don’t forget they also got the return man Jermaine Lewis in that same draft. Not a Hall of Famer but a really good player who could help out on special team and help flip the field position in an instant.
And they were going to pick Lawrence philips over ogden. Dodged a massive bullet right there didn't they?
@@pranavpanicker1120 Credit goes to Ozzie Newsome for seeing Lawrence Philips's track record in college and deciding to go with the safer bet on Johnathan Ogden and it was a really good bet because Ogden became a Hall of Fame tackle and the Ravens would eventually get their running back in Jamal Lewis in 2000.
@@Tdull-tv1ds and back in 1996 field position was huge
@Ben Flynn It’s still an important part of the game now. If your special teams is putting your offense and defense in advantageous situations then you should more than likely be getting points every time. Note that I said should because even I’ve seen teams fail at getting points on the board when they are given good field position. Not the case with the Ravens because I’m sure you remember they had an average QB in Trent Dilfer and they still won the Super Bowl despite only having that one weakness. Everybody at the skill positions more than made up for that. Same thing with the 2003 Buccaneers.
Ray Lewis' first career game too. The start of a defense dynasty in the late 90s/early 2000s
The Ravens were not a dynasty
@@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly Defense dynasty. They had one of the best defenses in the league for the longest time. I would argue that the '03 team was a decent QB away from going to the Super Bowl.
And Jonathan Ogden! The first Ravens draft pick
@@diggsreport6804 Ray Lewis Is The Number One Best Linebacker In Ravens History!
Him boselli Jones and roaf the best
The ravens didn’t take long to win the super bowl. Literally 4 years later after their debut
They just had to get out of Cleveland
hell yeah love my ravens
Did art Modell cursed the Browns? Browns coulda won 2 titles instead none
I think that's the fastest ever for franchise the win that first Super Bowl
I know right that’s krazy
Ray Lewis frying pan sized shoulder pads
Matt Stover field goals and Ray Lewis making huge plays...right from the beginning.
Baltimore really wanted their team back, I’m glad they got a team back in their city.
Shouldn't have moved from Cleveland though
@@DaComebakKid fair point. Still should’ve been the “Baltimore colts” especially with their marching band that really wanted the team back.
@@DaComebakKid there's a reason why they moved
It was like a game of hot miserable potato. Baltimore lost the Colts to Indy for a good 20 years or so, and to see NFL football back in a city where the market is full of championships. Cleveland then loses a team for a painful four years, much less one that could’ve taken them to the Super Bowl (Ray Lewis and John Ogden as Cleveland Browns just sounds all kinds of cursed). And now they both stand square in the middle of one of the bloodthirstiest divisions in football... Welcome to Expectationsville Browns... we’re all happy you could make it here! Good luck.
@DaComebakKid , we could've had an expansion team if Paul Tagliabue didn't straight up screw us over. He told our mayor at the time to "use our money to build a museum." I feel bad for Browns fans, but I feel even more bad for my fellow Baltimore fans who watched their team leave in the middle of the night and was repeatedly denied an expansion team.
That Ray Lewis guy looks good, Baltimore might want to keep an eye on him
I love the 96 ravens uniforms
Same. Still trying to find a jersey of Ray Lewis 1996 season.
The success of the Baltimore Stallions in the CFL helped make this possible.
And it was a successful move of that franchise to Montreal who also got football back after a long drought
I went to a few of their games back in the day. Pretty fast pace.
*Baltimore CFL Colts
Grey cup champions !!! Big Bad Blue !!
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That nfl on NBC theme is magnificent. Love the ravens purple Jerseys and black pants.
Ray Lewis literally showing why he deserved to be a 1st round pick
the 1996 Season. the magic year that made me a football fan for life.
Amen and go pack go regardless!!
Bring back memories of me being 12yrs old watching NFL Primetime with Chris Berman and TJ
Amen
Can say that again
Any game by NBC at the time was a honor to have for any team. The presentation is jus beautiful
Wow! This takes me back to when I was 13 years old, and I watched this game live on NBC. The intrigue of seeing the Cleveland Browns relocate to Baltimore under a new name and colors, and seeing NFL football played in Baltimore, for the first time since the Colts left for Indianapolis. Looking back at the Ravens, their uniforms looked more like one of those defunct XFL teams rather than an NFL team. As for Oakland, they would have the task of playing vs the Oilers in their season opener, of their inaugural season in Tennessee the following year, to a very different sized crowd, in the liberty bowl, I believe? Some strange times in the mid 90's!
This is the first "regular" season game that the Ravens played. Their first "appearance" as the Ravens was an August 3rd pre-season game against the Eagles. I'm always a bit torn about Baltimore "stealing" the Browns from Cleveland. The city knew the pain of having a team ripped away from them and Art Model isn't the only villain in this drama. When the NFL expanded to Carolina and Jacksonville in the early 90s they opened the door for the Rams and Browns to find sweetheart deals in the 2 cities that wanted the NFL back.
only 3 year wait
Old Memorial Stadium was a great place to watch football.
I really enjoy that old logo, wished they’d bring it back as an alternative logo.
they can't. they ripped off a local artist that design, and he sued them. It's why if you notice in the 30 for 30 documentary they show modern Ravens vs Raiders footage for this first game. cause they legally couldn't show them with this logo.
@@PowerPackers90 shit
@@PowerPackers90 didn't know this thx bro
@Rowdy Jr i think he had a gripe - the ravens refused to pay him so i think he was in the right for it.
Feel bad for the guy who faxed them the logo, they copied it and they never payed him.
I think I have been to or watched every game since seeing this one. It caught me a little off guard how much I truly missed football in my hometown.
The Ravens have truly blessed us as fans lol
6:00 the beginning of hall of Fame career Ray Lewis
It was so sad that Baltimore don't have any NFL team because the Colts move to Indianapolis in 1984 🏈
@@bricethompson1922 I really agreed
@@jefferyrobertson7520 I suppose you could say the same thing when the bullets left for DC
@@bricethompson1922 Washington Bullets win the NBA World Championship in 1977
I believe that Art Modell was also a superhero that brought NFL football back to the Old Line State. #GoRavens.
@@joshuagamboaii741 Cleveland Browns begin decline in the early 90s because Robert irsay the Colts move to Indianapolis beginning in 1984 with beautiful state-of-the-art Hoosier Dome is for perfect football game for Indianapolis area
Ain't gonna lie, sometimes I miss those huge shoulder pads :(
They look better than the modern jerseys.
Ted Marchibroda was the first and only man to coach and win with both baltimore teams
Some Steelers kicker, last name of Ruhr or something, was the only former Baltimore Colt to play against the Ravens.
@@ocularzombie6679 that kicker’s name: Rohn Stark.
They leave Cleveland and then become one of the most consistent and successful NFL franchises of the last 30 years
The NFL debut of Ray Lewis
Whatever became of that guy?
Went on to be a legend and 2X Super Bowl champion
Hall of Famer
@@kamalporter706 He is joking lol
He was an accessory to murder and got away with it.
@@kamalporter706also Super Bowl MVP
I am glad this is here, because The Ravens first uniforms and logo have all but disappeared and are hard to find actual, CLEAR footage of. It is as if it had never existed. It is good to see, knowing that i'm not crazy for having recalled them.
Before anyone replies, I do know the history of the logo and why it was removed. I still like the original better though.
Not a ravens fan but those jerseys from their first year were fresh
I’m so happy that Baltimore Ravens are here because Baltimore would not feel like home without the Ravens
The ravens first uniforms were honestly their coolest ever!
@Devin Curtis alright I’ll give you that. The new helmets are definitely a little nicer but the jerseys and pants were awesome!
Regardless, the very first Ravens game my dad watched. (His name's DeMarco Jamone Ducksworth, but the first NFL game of his lifetime was the Bengals playing against the Raiders in 1990, his birth year. What a great way to do your first 48 hours.)
As a 58 year old Browns fan and one who remembers this very well, these are still very painful memories for me and all Browns fans. Seeing our players in those strange uniforms and the liar Art Modell sitting there in his suite still makes my blood boil.
It always trips me out when i think about the fact that had the original Cleveland Browns never moved to Baltimore and become the Ravens than the Cleveland Browns would have been one of the most dominant teams over the last 25 seasons with two SB wins. I can definitely understand your anger
@@nickk7425 The Browns had a storied history prior to the move and you’re right, that storied history would have continued. The Browns up until 1995 had a total of 7 championships. 4 in the AAFC and 3 in the NFL. Those 2 Ravens SB wins would have given us a total of 9.
Funny how they moved because we couldn't get them a stadium.. they still played 2 seasons in an old stadium. The browns new stadium was built just a year after Baltimore's.. art couldn't wait
@@LukeBCtownArt didn’t pay a cent for his stadium in Baltimore though
@@LukeBCtown wrong, Cleveland kept telling Art Modell they wasn't going to build a stadium he was going to have to Do it himself. When he announced that he was going to leave then the city council Came up with the money but it was too late Paperwork was already signed for the move
The circumstances behind how football was brought back to Baltimore after 13 years very much overshadow and put a major damper on just how massive it was for those fans in that city to finally have a team to root for again. It's almost poetic how Baltimore effectively received a football team under nearly the exact same circumstances as how they lost a team.
Obviously you feel for the city of Cleveland, and you should. But I can't help but feel good for Baltimore. They deserved a team and I only wish they didn't have to take one from another passionate city to get one. At the very least, Cleveland did end up getting their team back, with all its history still in tact.
Albiet they haven't won a superbowl. Actually they haven't won many games at all.
I don't feel good for Baltimore at all. They sold their souls and embraced the hypocrisy of doing what was done to them and trying to excuse it because they were somehow more deserving. That's not poetry, that's a tragedy.
@@MarkZickefoosecry some more.
I’m from Baltimore and have a signed Vinny Testaverde Jersey that I wear to the games, it’s always a great conversation starter. Awesome to see this game!
First two draft picks, two first ballot hall of famers
This was 25 yrs ago in September 1996 and 25 yrs lata in September 2021 raiders vs ravens had 1 of the craziest opening day ending of a game ever.
With the 2021 game being the first one with fans in the stands.
Let's see. I was at the Baltimore Colts' last playoff game against the (first version) Oakland Raiders (24 Dec 1977), the Baltimore Colts' last ever game against the Houston Oilers (18 Dec 1983), and the Baltimore Ravens' first ever game against the (second version) Oakland Raiders (1 Sep 1996). All at Memorial Stadium. And now only the Baltimore Ravens even still exist.
Well the other interesting part of all of that is the last ever game there was played against the Tennessee oilers who were the Houston oilers who played in last ever Baltimore colts game at memorial stadium. Then, another weird fact is the both the orioles and the ravens were called the Browns when they were in Cleveland and St. Louis respectively. How weird is that?
5-10 years from now I expect to see tonight's game teeing up the next Ravens/Raiders matchup.
As for this one, It was tough at that time to accept the Ravens since they were literally the Browns in another team's uniform.
First ever Raiders game in Vegas with fans
Ravens at Raiders week 1 MNF SEP 13
I went to this game and lucked out on tickets, I was watching the last Ravens preseason game and they said more seats were released and to call Ticketmaster in Baltimore, which I did asap and got on up in the open endzone. Picked it up at Will Call and witnessed NFL history.
Although Dick Emberg didn't do the main comms here, I always loved the commentary duo of Emberg and Bob Trumpy, in the late 80s-to mid -90s, Almost as much as Summerall and Madden.
I remember this day man I was 13 years old I was so excited I was rushing home from church to watch this game I can remember this day like it was yesterday ❤❤
RIP Art. Thanks for bringing football back to Baltimore.
I love the Ravens ever since this first game!
You live in Baltimore? Or MD in general?
#19 #JohnnyUnitas the last great piece of football history #Baltimore had before the #Ravens we’re born brings out the game ball on the same field he used to create magic on & Baltimore scores exactly 19 points to win their first game as a new Baltimore franchise on old Memorial Field. What a coincidence & such a great memory for us Baltimore fans thrive on forever. ⚫️🟣⚫️🟣
First TD in franchise history and he gives the ball to a fan lol. I'm sure the front office was pissed. That's the kind of thing that gets put in glass cases for decades...
Lol he didn’t give a damn 🤦🏿
@@YouCanChangeYourWorldToday I’m sure “call security and tell them to get that ball” came out of someone’s mouth shortly after. I’ve seen it before and they usually hook that person up to make it worth it. Free season pass for life or something. If I was worth that many commas and owned the team, I’d give their whole immediate family season tickets together for life. Who cares…not like they’d notice the money.
@@T1cksandLeeches right. I’m sure they compensated that person really well 🕵🏻♂️🥷🏻
I remember watching this with my father he was so happy when they got their team back. We went to see them vs the rams that season
@@lostyank ok they were happy when they got Cleveland’s team
after the events of 1983, I think the rulers of Baltimore and Maryland learned their lesson and built the stadium the Colts always wanted.
I remember thinking the Ravens needed to change the logo on the helmet back then...they eventually did. This team showed up in the Superbowl only 4 years later...think about that.
I remember that game.
This is the first ravens game?
I loved♥ that football on abc introduction music this year !!!
As a colts fan, I will say that they did not need to leave Baltimore.
the city tried to take the team from the owner forcing him to move . any smart owner is not gonna let a city steal their billion dollar business .
@@apollo-eu4fkhe was a drunken liar who lied constantly about shopping the team for a long time prior to the city trying eminent domain.
Art Modell, the most hated man in Cleveland.
I actually like the raven decal, logo, or whatever, that was on the arm of their original jerseys.
Never knew Ray Lewis had the first interception in Raven's history, but it seems awfully fitting. Pretty sure Ray was the only original Raven left on the team when they won their last Super Bowl.
They had to stop using it after they were sued for unlawfully using it
@@saydaddy91 Really?
@@melvinshine9841 yeah look it up
Yeah Lewis was.
Bro Vinny Testy was mobile af that first drive really looked something like a drive nowadays
I wish the Ravens would rock these old school unis.
Those old Ravens unis look like something the Goon Squad would wear if they made a NFL Space Jam😂
Art Modell knew that in order to win a super bowl, he needed to move the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore, for which to some people to a fault
But why? The NFL is a salary cap league and any team can win a Super Bowl from any city.
@@JahNuhThunDeeTheOneAndOnly not the cowboys 😂😂
@@jaywauokere268 they got 5 sooo.......
It was about the stadium you doof 🖕🖕
@@DJ12850 with Troy aikman Michael Irvin and emmitt
It’s been over 20 since they won one what makes you think they’ll win another one 🤦🏽♂️
Cool seeing Johnny Unitas at the start of this, little awkward though with him wearing the Colts jersey.
Also forgot that Testeverde played for the Ravens, think he even made a pro bowl with them. His career was so up and down.
Johnny and a bunch of other Colts legends came onto the field and turned their jerseys inside out to reveal Ravens colors, or so has been reported.
@@Chibekoe Oh ok, interesting.
Beautiful
The mistake by the Ravens was not keeping Bill Belichick when they moved. He led them to the playoffs with the No. 1 defense in 1994.
Love the NBC music
Those Ravens uniforms were 🔥 I was disappointed when they changed them.
Damn Even the ravens in this time period had more fans then the browns
Trash comment. Browns fans fought to keep the team name and colors, which they did
The start of an elite NFL franchise run.
Wonder where that first ravens td ball is nowadays... lucky fan
I had a feeling this game would show up
Its actually on the Baltimore Ravens channel under playlists that's titled ravens top 25 games of all time in full, and for some reason it's a unlisted video so the only way to look it up and watch it is going to the UA-cam channel page ... I know this and I'm a Packers fan lmao
Here it is everyone, the historic birth of the Baltimore Ravens.
Hope y'all enjoyed this cause you're gonna get the same result tonight 😈
L
This didn’t age well
The Ravens defeated the Raiders for their first ever regular season victory and the Ravens defeated the Raiders for their first ever conference championship.
The conference championship was an old fashion whooping
4 years later this new franchise the Ravens would go on to the have one of greatest defensiveness in history and a super bowl win.
Vinny was slinging that football!
Man those uni's are rough for the Ravens, glad they figured it out
Once they got their current jerseys they immediately won a Super Bowl.. and a second to boot!
I liked last night monday night's one better!!! Raider Nation for Life - WHAT A GAME!!!!!!!!
I was at that game. Sitting in the end zone. Fun time.
Is that PSINet Stadium?
NO sir. That's Memorial Stadium, where they played first two seasons before PSInet stadium opened.
That’s the legendary memorial stadium sir …. Damn I’m showing my age … u missed out on the essence of 33rd Street
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The whole Colts Browns Ravens drama is confusing.
Nice of Mrs Modell to stand & clap !!❤
Steve Everett jumped the ship !!!
It's a bit disturbing that my favourite team is younger than I am!
@Malone 26.
@Malone panthers
That was surprising good
Awesome video
ME and a guy at work in DC were Raider Fans we drove up to support the Sliver and Black that day....... was cool ot be there but it could have been better.
Memorial Stadium still looks better then what Ravens have now.
If you consider the ravens to be the old browns, then this is their first game in Baltimore.
I wonder if anyone has a video of Bob Costas and his less than flattering comments made about the Ravens and Baltimore from the pre-game show?
The Ravens should have kept those jerseys.
It had something to do with a copyright logo. That’s why they never even wear them vintage for any games
Ray Lewis rookie year💯🏈
Baltimore is a football city and they deserved a team, but not in the way that it happened.
Blame the nfl they claimed that Baltimore wasn’t a “football city” but a “museum city”.
You don't happen to have the Ravens' first game against the Browns in Cleveland in 1999?
Man those uniforms were goofy. I think it was the thick solid white strips down the side of the pants that made them look so weird...
When a expansion team start how do they determine what draft pick they get??
Lost in all this is that I believe this was the Raiders first game back as the "Oakland" Raiders.
These days it seems so odd for neither Baltimore or Cleveland to not have a football team
I noticed in these older games there is always the sound of a helicopter overhead. I believe they were replaced by the quiet blimps later.
It could also be planes flying with banner ads.
Modell moved the team to Baltimore mainly because he wanted a new stadium.
Ironically, the Ravens played their first two years in Memorial Stadium (home of the Baltimore Colts and Orioles before 1993) before the current one was built.
Actually, he did it to remain financially solvent and keep control of the team. He was such a bad businessman that he couldn't make money with an NFL franchise with a rabid fanbase. The real irony is that instead of selling in 1995, retiring with hundreds of millions of dollars, and remaining popular in Cleveland, he made himself the villain to feed his ego and STILL had to sell the team - the NFL itself actually forced him to - four years later. Still wound up with lots of money, but absolutely destroyed his legacy in the process.
@@MarkZickefoose He may be a villain in Cleveland but he’s a hero in Baltimore!
@@flyguydrama4148 And the fact that that city has made a hero of the moral equal of Robert Irsay simply because someone ELSE was the victim and they benefitted, while still harboring intense hatred for the Irsay family, and still regularly taunting Cleveland about it tells us all we need to know about their character - or rather, the complete absence of it.
@@MarkZickefoose don’t come for my city. If you want to blame someone blame the nfl. They took football from here and didn’t even try to bring it back. Y’all got a team back within 4 years and got to keep all your history. Or the lack there of.
@@flyguydrama4148 Your don't have any moral high ground to stand on. Your city whored itself out and sold whatever integrity it pretended to have when Moag and Glendenning targeted the teams of other cities. They knew exactly what they were doing to the city of Cleveland and Browns fans and simply didn't care.
And plenty of trash Balitmore fans were bragging about having the "Baltimore Browns" right up until the agreement was finalized. None of you gave a damn that you have become what you'd spent the previous decade vilifying.
BTW, "the NFL didn't even try" is a load of crap, as Baltimore was a finalist for the last open round of expansion. The irony is that the guy pounding on the podium in the 1993 owners' meeting declaring that Baltimore didn't DESERVE an expansion team (when they had a hell of a lot better bid than that overgrown truck stop that is Jacksonville) was Art Modell himself.
The Dump Trumpy sign at 0:34 aged really well
0:50 The most hated man in Cleveland
Oakland at Baltimore… yes it was a different Baltimore team… 1977 Divisional Playoff “Ghost To The Post”
Damn shame that the Raiders couldn’t make it back to the Super Bowl in 1977. Raiders-Cowboys, Kenny Stabler vs Roger Staubach, The Autumn Wind vs America’s Team, John Madden vs Tom Landry, in the Superdome… yeah, how many times in the 1970s were we robbed of that Super Bowl
Still odd that in 1996, that Fox, TNT, & ESPN were using a score bug but ABC & NBC didn’t because… I guess tradition?
Raiders at Cowboys on thanksgiving man
Wow the Ravens were born the same year I was born.
lol their mechanics were so different back then. look at the qb drop back and receiver stance
The classic being right behind the center instead of the shotgun