The Ravens have never mortgaged the future for the present, and with another trophy on the shelf, they'll be less inclined to do so, not more so. Still, they want to keep the nucleus of this team together and take a shot at a repeat. Baltimore believes that's possible without the likes of Lewis, Reed, Kruger, Cary Williams, Birk and Leach.That's not what it's all about. That's the wrong attitude.' So after getting beaned and while laying on the Xray table, I started to think more about what Ken said. The conclusion I came to was that it wasn't all about me, and the world certainly was not my enemy.

Some of these fanatics are my friends, and so I don want to be too critical, but I swear they probably know 10 times more about their fantasy football statistics than they know about the details of the federal budget. I not saying folks should drop everything every time a president gives a speech, but all of this craziness about a football game seems sort of childish. In fact, a