At a time when the NFL is fretting about fans choosing to stay home and watch the game on TV, the Ravens won’t be experiencing that dynamic in 2010.
Single-game tickets went on sale this morning, and they’re all gone for each regular-season game. Fewer than 1,000 remain for the team’s two preseason contests.
Now, if only the franchise would have similar fortune in their dealings with Ed Reed.
Hope they’ve read the refund policy….
I really wish, the NFL and or teams front office would post how much corporations buy up in tickets. And no, I’m not saying this “in” this case lol. Just wonder though, how much they buy before the season starts.
Reed’s absence may very well cost the Ravens the SB
Of course. One of the best fan bases’ in the league.
Hopefully Paul “Build a Museum” Tagliabue is taking notice.
America’s team…THE RAVENS.
With the MOST LOYAL FAN BASE in the NFL.
Raven Nation doesn’t have to BEG for fans to buy tickest like the Browns who have to resort to “Pick A Seat Day” or the JESTS who still can’t unload their PSLs for their rotten team that sucks from top to bottom.
Even Burning River and Brian Sipe were in line all night to purchase the remaining tickest that were available to the public. All the tickets sold out in ten minutes.
The Art Modell legacy of greatness and fabulous owner will endure forever in the hearts of all NFL fans across America.
Great story, and great job Ravens fans. You have good reason to be excited this year. Good Luck
Sincerely,
The Raider Nation
Best fans in the league, without a doubt. Glad there are good bars in Fed Hill cause I’m sure these tix are gonna be flipped for a fortune.
Thanks to congress extending unemployment benefits and the fresh supply of food stamps I was able to sell-I GOT MINE
RAVENS = BEER = GOOD
-a worried steeler fan -
Well, at least we know government workers are still doing well.
you make it seem like they had a lot of tickets to sell. 99% of the stadium is PSL’s. it’s like that every year.
next story?
Boy that was a brilliant decision to put that expansion franchise in Jacksonville, wasn’t it Paul Tagliabue? Our ‘museum’ seems to be doing quite well, thank you! A 15th straight season of sellouts. Not bad.
Championship!
Are they still afraid of Black and Gold take overs of the stadium and refusing to put Steeler games for individual sale
Balmer, Hon!
Yes, The Ravens have sold out. It wasnt that hard. They were benefactors of a mass migration of RedSkinned fans, who are sick and tired of losing.
Ravensmuscl? most loyal base? Only because they projected to do good…..hopefully they dont move like the Colts did!
If the fan base was that good this wouldn’t even be a story. You would just know they sold out.
@ cmich06 -
The Black and Gold only show up when times are good. I go to every Ravens-Steelers game at M&T and that is a cold hard fact. There are nothing but bandwagon Pitt fans in B-More.
As for this article, the Ravens sell out their home games EVERY year. We appreciate our team and are glad to have football in Baltimore.
Reed’s absence may very well cost the Ravens the SB.
Hello Ed Reed been in league since 2002 and has not won a Super Bowl! So him playing has not led the Ravens to a Super Bowl! 1 and done in playoffs for Ravens.
RiderNation says:
July 23, 2010 12:08 PM
Well, at least we know government workers are still doing well.
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Everyone from Baltimore works for the government? I am able to discern that you are attempting to take a shot at Baltimore, but I am not getting the “joke”.
What means this “single game tickets?”
cmich06 says:
July 23, 2010 12:17 PM
Are they still afraid of Black and Gold take overs of the stadium and refusing to put Steeler games for individual sale
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There’s no need to when the stadium is already sold out…
The Ravens are able to sell out so quickly because 75% of their fans wear black & gold and bring Terrible Towels when they play the Steelers!
GO STEELERS!
WOW! A whole season with sold out tickets! Welcome to what Pittsburgh fans have been used to for the last 35 years..
Now stop trying to make us laugh about that whole “most loyal fanbase” bull$hit.
good team offense and def., however DBs suck and if Reed does’nt play they will go down with the big pass play
@funi
You obviously don’t know much about team sports, do you?
1 player by themselves can never win a SB but Reed can plug the Ravens 1 weakness – secondary. They then become SB contenders.
Just ask the steelers about their safety position last year
You have to have someone die and leave tickets to you in Steelersburgh.
Nations most loyal fans…. last I looked the Steelers have the biggest jewelry box in the NFL.
The Baltimore Orioles sold games out in 1996 too. B-more will B-less once the team doesn’t have Playoff expectations. Turn on an O’s game this season to see how loyal the fan base is in Baltimore. Just win baby!
The most Loyal fan base is the town that still fills seats in the stadium for their team after ten losing seasons (Bills, Browns, Raiders, Lions). Anyone still supporting those franchises are by far more loyal than the dirty birds of baltimore.
Joe Flacco and ravenmuscle and other idiots,
Best fan base? Raven Nation? Really? You can’t be serious. Perhaps in the Baltimore area. Ummm…Last time I checked, there is a Pittsburgh Steelers bar in every city. Every city. Do you understand that Ravens’ fans? I would never wear my teams’ jersey to a Ravens’ game because I’d be afraid to get shot or stabbed.
Steeler fans have bought every ticket to every game since 1972. Pittsburgh has a sellout streak that is 24 years older than THE ENTIRE 15-year EXISTENCE OF THE BALTIMORE RAVENS.
To put it another way: The Steelers 39-year streak of sellouts is over 2.5 times longer than the entire written history of The Ravens. We can fold up the Ravens history at least twice and it will still fit very easily inside of just the current Steeler sellout streak.
It would fit really easily into a Packer sellout streak, many times over, as well.
Phuckphilly, correct you will get beat the phuck down if you wear that sh*t to one of our games.. so stay the phuck out of Baltimore.
The Ravens have sold out every game in their history…including 8 non playoff seasons and seven .500 and sub .500 seasons.
Far from fairweather when it comes to the Ravens.
And as for the examples of the Bills/Browns/Raiders/Lions…each of those teams have had blackouts or been extremely close to having blackouts last year so it’s not like they are selling out every game.
@phuckphilly
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You bet your a$$ you better not wear your colors to our house. Just ask the Stooler or Brownstain fans what happened to them at a Raven game….they left on a stretcher.
I love it when Crackimore idiots like penismuscle talk about the loyal fan base and like so many here made it clear-the Orioles have more empty than full seats, they couldn’t even keep their original NFL team and their NBA (yes they actually had an NBA team the Baltimore Bullets) relocated because of lack of support. Dude, your town is 1 out of 3 for keeping teams.
Big deal. The fans can see they have a legit shot at a Super Bowl so they’re wasting their hard earned money on season tickets instead of the usual beer and lottery tickets. A cheaper way to go would be to simply recline and hit the red power button on your remote. It’s safe, cheap, easy and you can’t get throw in jail for throwing a hot dog at a referee.
Hmm! That brings back a bad memory!
Sellout streaks through the end of the 2009 regular season:
1. Washington Redskins … 327
2. Pittsburgh Steelers … 307
3. Denver Broncos … 301
4. San Franciso 49ers … 267
5. New York Giants … 264
6. Green Bay Packers … 261*
7. New York Jets … 257
8. Chicago Bears … 198
9. Dallas Cowboys … 161
10. New England Patriots … 159
11. Kansas City Chiefs … 149
12. Baltimore Ravens … 104
@Ravenmuscle
Last I saw Raven players were complaining about their lame a$$ fans selling tickets to Steeler fans.
PHUCKPHILLY
YOU SIR ARE A JABRONI! RAVENS OWN ONE OF THE BEST FAN BASES IN THE NFL. QUIT HATING AND JUST SHUT THE PHUCK UP!
Hey penismuscle, I’m still waiting for a reply. Your lowlife town is 1 FOR 3 IN KEEPING THEIR TEAMS
No Steelers bar in Indy, there must be other cities like that.
Also there’s no Colts bar in any city outside of Indiana. I guess having 0 bandwagon fans is a curse and a blessing then.
And theres no such thing as ‘Raven Nation’…I wouldn’t even know what a Ravens jersey looked like if I hadn’t seen it on TV.
Steelers walk over Ravens looking for a team to beat down !
phuckphilly says:
July 23, 2010 1:44 PM
Joe Flacco and ravenmuscle and other idiots,
Best fan base? Raven Nation? Really? You can’t be serious. Perhaps in the Baltimore area. Ummm…Last time I checked, there is a Pittsburgh Steelers bar in every city. Every city. Do you understand that Ravens’ fans? I would never wear my teams’ jersey to a Ravens’ game because I’d be afraid to get shot or stabbed.
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You’re an idiot. Baltimore fans definitely start some ignorant shit from time to time, but there’s absolutely nothing to fear wearing your team’s colors to M&T. Great stadium, (mostly) great fans (win, OR lose), solid team year in and year out.
Ozzie has definitely built the blueprint for continual success; other GMs should take note.
That said, I’m a Redskins fan who lives in Baltimore. GO SKINS.
Hey phuckphilly the reason why there are so many stiller bars around the country is b/c you loyal fans can’t wait to leave that dump you call Arm Pitts-burgh and settle somewhere else.
Ravenmuscle says:
July 23, 2010 2:02 PM
@phuckphilly
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You bet your a$$ you better not wear your colors to our house. Just ask the Stooler or Brownstain fans what happened to them at a Raven game….they left on a stretcher.
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Annnnnd yeah. This is the typical ignorant sh*t that needs to stay out of professional sports. Stop making Baltimore look bad.
I’m not even sure why I’m responding to any of this…. Every fan supports their local team and talks smack to everyone else… Some of it can be funny. The hate that goes on at these games though is ridiculous… I have seen too much stupidity to last a life time. If throwing full beer cans at opposing fans, and dropping the f-bomb with kids around is support… then keep your “Ravens Nation” to yourself… NO ONE wants to hear or experience it…
I also don’t understand why these dudes are comparing the Steelers’ streak of sold out seasons to a teams thats been around for 15 years. Its…not possible for it to be longer than that! Therefore the comparison is null.
If the Colts had stayed in Baltimore their streak would far surpass the Steelers.
Ravens53, you act as if you come to the comments section looking for a verbal fight. to that, your a goddamn loser. secondly, your absolutely entitled to your opinion obviously but why have the ravens username if your just bashing them. this is just a simple question because its simply confusing. to reply to your comment about us only being able to keep 1 of 3 teams. A. who cares about baseball these days, especially the orioles with angelos, lets make it 0-3 and get rid of them and hope another owner like modell who cares about his team (suck it Browns fans) can bring a team to baltimore that cares. the colts left because of an alcoholic owner. i really dont want to say more but if you need to know more just watch the 30@30 on espn about it. I really dont feel like going on anymore because i have better things to do but after reading these comments i decided to make a name and tell you how god damn immature and stupid you portray yourself. stupid blowjob
These guys are quickly becoming America’s Team©. It can no longer be denied.
@ HamBurghlar says: July 23, 2010 12:38 PM
WOW! A whole season with sold out tickets! Welcome to what Pittsburgh fans have been used to for the last 35 years..
Now stop trying to make us laugh about that whole “most loyal fanbase” bull$hit.
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Just proving that Steeler Nation is nothing more than a bunch of bandwagoneers. Where were the sold out games before they started winning??????
Huh? Huh?
I thought so. Your team sucked until Chuck Noll came around . Once they started winning the fans came out of the wood work.
Hey chasravens, or should I say Ravensmuscle. Thank you for your post-you just proved everyone’s point here about Baltimore. You loved the O’s when they were winning – but now that they are losing, you could care less if they left. You are the typical Baltimore front running fan. You know why Modell sold out to your town-he was broke from being such a poor businessman and the NFL as a whole though so poorly of your town, they would not award it another team (aka-the Browns) Please go back to your spaghetti-Os
and stop making yourself look like a fool.
Ravens = Killers
Yeah, except Baltimore fans ARE intensely loyal.
Dillhole. Orioles games are still attended, and fans have not given up. Is every seat sold? No. Because its baseball. No one is going to see all 81 games, no matter the record. No one.
Impressive. Ravens should be better but they haven’t really upgraded their weak DB core.
There won’t be any playoff tickets sold…lmao.The Afc is a stronger conference this year.No more beating the Browns and Lions to sneak in the playoffs this year because they ain’t making it.Ravens fans are loyal but ignorant and one points out there weakness….like they can’t win big games.So they beat NE at home…BOO PHUCKING HOOO!!!!!! Had to beat the Raiders to even make the playoffs last year.BEAT A DOMINANT TEAM FOR A CHANCE.But look on the bright side,at least you don’t play the original BALTIMORE team this year.Let’s see the special teams head coach pull a rabbit out his ass this year.7-9 7-9 7-9.
Legs-I didn’t write let the O’s leave, one of your Baltimore brethern did. Maybe Angelos can move the team to Indianapolis-making that town 2 for 3 in getting a team from Baltimore because of lack of support. Unfortunately they can’t go 3 for 3 bacause they already have a NBA team (albeit crappy) and you guys already lost yours.
This doesn’t change the fact that they wear the color purple.
@moosev — hello the Ravens have only been around for 14 years and we are doing that badly.
I only discriminate against stupid steeler fans; indy fans do not exist. just sayin
Bandwagon fans at it’s finest.
Just to point out, Bills fans are very loyal…considering we live in an area where the economy is never good, it’s a large stadium for a small market team and well they suck and have sucked for 10 years now, yet we do sell out most of the games, pretty sure they all sold out last year and the bills were downright awful…it’s much easier for a team with playoff expectations to sell out tickets…
Amazing.
Aren’t we supposed to be in some kind of economic recession??
Coming from a Jag fan: Bravo Baltimore – sorry you guys went through the pains of losing your team.
Your team is good when the haters are out in full force!!!!
Keep hatin….
C’mon Hamburghlar give us a break….we have not been around as long as your team….there is no doubt the steelers have some of the most loyal fans….
Ray Ray is soft: You are right we had to beat the raiders to get in. Too bad your asses couldn’t in Arm Pittsburgh and that’s why you guys were at home giving Rapist-burger a lot more time to find victims. And I think to mean change (not chance) you idiot.
Ray Ray is soft….you couldnt even beat the raiders….or the browns….or the chiefs….HAHAHAHA….you really think your team will make the playoffs????
Ravens247.I’m a Baltimore resident.Where is you get that I’m a Pittsburgh fan?I’m a Redskins fan that also hates the Ravens.This team is on the decline and few people see it.Regardless of Reciever that can’t stay healthy.One year wonder Ray Rice….who is a homo that stays in RayLewis basement…lol
If Pittsburgh has suh a great fan base, why could I get tickets to any game I wanted when I lived there?? Steelers fans are overrated
If Pittsburgh has suh a great fan base, why could I get tickets to any game I wanted when I lived there?? Steelers fans are overrated
Best fans in the NFL, hands down. No doubt.
@ PhuckPhilly
The Steelers have the most bandwagon fans in the league, not the best fans. They have a bar in every state because they’re bandwagoners. Get real.
The Bleacher Report ranked the Steelers as the 6th best fans in the NFL. Baltimore has class, integrity, and devotion. You could learn a thing or two from our organization.
@ ravens53
Show me a baseball team that’s had a losing record for the last 13 seasons and still sells out games. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Oh what’s that? There are none. Then STFU!!!!!
Baltimore is a football town. Even after the Colts left, we’ve always been a football town. We still love the Orioles, but I just watch them on TV now as opposed to going to the games.
Ray Ray is Soft. Why would you admit you are a redskins fan. Atleast Steeler fans have some bling to back the talk. First your team lost to the chiefs THE chief at home. And then guess who detroit beat to break their losing streak thats right the Skins. As for our receivers I will take them anyday over your group of flops and HGH users. Finally, even if Ray rice takes a step back he still is better that Clinton Potty, Larry “I make gay jokes to hide the fact the I am gay” Johnson, and Slower than willie nelson Parker.
Ravens247…um we have 3 Superbowl rings with three different Qbs.The Rats have one with a defense that took advantage of a weak schedule,didn’t play against and All-Pro Qb….then got rid of an Super Bowl winning Qb for Elvis Grbac!! 3 which is way more then the Ravens will ever have.Pittsburgh is one of the most consistent teams in the league that has 6rings.The way the Ravens schedule is this year,without Reed, for the first 6 weeks will be 2-4….BANK ON THAT!!
Ed Reed’s injury may cost the Ravens the Super Bowl? How many Super Bowls have the Ravens won WITH Ed Reed?
@moosev
nice stat. it seems everyone forgets that the ravens are the youngest team compared to the other teams on the list..
Ray Ray is soft……..first of all, what idiot Steelers fan would have Ray’s name in their sign-on, secondly, you must REALLY be a huge Squealers fan considering you dont even know how many diff QBS won SBs for them…………LOL.
Actually third, I retract any insults I just made…..when one is dealing with a dumbass Squealers fan, one should realize nothing will make sense……my bad! LOL
Baltimore has, is, and will always be fanatic about their football. I seem to recall a recent Vince Vaughn comedy that included the classic line “crabcakes and football that’s what Maryland does”. Going back in cinema you have the classic film “Diner” in which one character gives his bride-to-be a Colts trivia test before marrying her.
So the haters can continue to hate. I’m proud to be from Baltimore and I’m a full-fledged Ravens fan till the day I die. There’s only one city that I know of that has won:
-NFL Championships (Baltimore Colts ’58, ’59, ’68)
-USFL Championship (Baltimore Stars ’85)
-CFL Championship (Baltimore Stallions ’95)
-NFL Super Bowls (Colts ’71 & Ravens ’00)
-AIFA championship (Baltimore Mariners 7/25/10)
Proving that if you put ANY type of professional football team in Baltimore, they’ll bring home a championship. Our 8 pro football championships (#9 on the way) kind of make a steroid-tainted “sixpack” look kind of silly.
Now if you’ll excuse me I’ve got to go try and remember what football city won the game dubbed “The Greatest Game Ever Played”.