Not mine, but worthy enough to post (from rec.birds):

>>On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, Gary J Glennon wrote:

>>> Baltimore recently named their new football team the Ravens, because Edgar
>>> Allen Poe lived in Baltimore. The Boston Globe ran an article praising
>>> the choice, because of its literary reference. A letter to the editor in
>>> response to the article suggested that a better choice would have been an
>>> unpronouncable glyph, so the team would have to be referred to as the
>>> "team formerly known as the Browns."

>>The Baltimore Orioles baseball team was also known as the Browns before
>>it left St. Louis in 1954. It's an old Baltimore tradition, turning
>>little Browns jobs into recognizable species.

>>Terry Ross Visit the BALTIMORE BIRD CLUB
>>Baltimore MD http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~tross/baltbird.html

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>
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