Can You Root for the Ravens?

(2004 photo by Jonathan Newton - TWP) A fellow D.C. sportswriter recently reported that two of his born-and-bred D.C.-area friends now root for the Ravens. Other acquaintances have passed on similar stories: fed-up with the perpetually middling Redskins, they are shifting their loyalty up 95, at least on a postseason basis. My general thought: huh???? It’s sort of the same debate about the Orioles and the Nationals, but sort of not. D.C. folks had fine reasons for rooting for the Orioles

during much of the pre-Nat era: the O’s were likable, they had a great ballpark, and there was no baseball team in Washington. Even in the post-Nat era, the way baseball is set up, it’s sort of acceptable to choose one AL team and one NL team. And even with all that, I still find dual Nats-O’s fandom a bit suspicious. But the NFL deal is different. The

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