Forevermore, It’s Baltimore Ravens

By naming his NFL team the Ravens on Friday, Art Modell transformed it from one revered by dog-mask wearing fans in Cleveland to a franchise that draws on the literary bones of Edgar Allan Poe. Barketh the Dawg Pound: Nevermore.

Modell announced his team’s new name at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. It was 12 years to the day that the Colts deserted Baltimore in the middle of the night for Indianapolis.

Ravens, after Poe’s famous poem on the torment of lost love, beat out “Americans” and “Marauders” in a phone-in poll fans used to choose the team’s name.