Orioles Retrospective: A Tale of Two Franchises, Baseball and Football

I think it's important to remember that while the Orioles have been bad recently, and the Ravens have been good, it hasn't always been so... success can be a very cicular thing, and over the last 30 years, the success and popularity of the city's baseball and football franchises has come full circle.

If you click on the article below (written by Bob Maisel, and included in the January 4th, 1981 edition of the Baltimore Sun), and take a minute to review,  it's easy to imagine the same thing being written today, but with the football and baseball franchises being flip-flopped:

Keep this in mind the next time you hear somebody saying "The Orioles are going to suck forever", or "The Raven's approach will always keep them competitive". The only thing you can really count on in sports is that nothing lasts forever.