Mascot Monday: Poe Baltimore Ravens

POE

Baltimore Ravens 1998 - Present

This Monday's Mascot is Poe the Raven official mascot for the NFL's Baltimore Ravens. Gee I wonder who he could possibly be named for? Honestly I planned on having this mascot last week actually since the Ravens were in the Playoffs. When I didn't do a Mascot Monday last Monday I thought about this one and then thought I'd better wait to see how B'More does against the Patriots before posting so I don't say anything that would look awkward after a loss. Do a search on "Ray Lewis retirement countdown billboard" and you will see what I mean. Now the Ravens represent the AFC in Super Bowl 47. Anyway on to this week's mascot and card.

Poe in typical mascot bird fashion was hatched in 1998. Actually he is the third of three Raven Mascots where were "hatched" back then. His Brothers Edgar and Allan were also mascots for the team but were retired in 2008. Anyway here is Poe's Team issued post card (which I got from that big stack of mascot stuff). It is post card sized 4.25" x 5.5" I don't know the year of issue for it.

 

Baltimore Ravens Team Issued Post Card - Poe Mascot

(Front and Back)

 

I am always on the lookout for Mascot cards. I also accept Mascot Postcards and team issued promo cards/photos of mascots.

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Kirk's Knook: Super Bowl 46

CONGRATULATIONS New York Giants

I posted my reactions/comments of this year's Super Bowl on my regular blog, I'm too lazy to make any additional changes and I wanted to see how blogger's "link to this post" actually worked between your own blogs Kirk's Knook: Super Bowl 46

I must have slept late.

Don't worry folks I haven't slipped into the Twilight Zone... or maybe I have. I realize it's been ages upon ages since I've done an update to this card blog. My main focus and concentration has been on things other than those small 2.5" x 3.5" pieces of cardboard with pretty pictures on them. For 2012 I will try to improve my updates here. I can't guarantee a specific number of posts per month this year but I will try to be more regular than I have been.

Anyway Super Bowl Sunday is fast approaching us (February 05) and Super Bowl XLVI (46) is a rematch of four years ago with the New York Giants and New England Patriots. Yes I know in my logo filled heading I used the old "retro" helmets of the Patriots. I prefer that helmet over their gaudy Silver ones they have now. It took me two or three years to realize that the streaks on the top were the tricorn hat the Patriot was wearing and not a patriotic streamer.

OK to keep this on the topic of cards let me see what random card I can pull from my hard drive archives...

2003 Bowman #222 Roderick Babers RC - Giants

I think this card is still in my possession. I'm not a big fan of The Giants or the modern Bowman Rookie heavy cards so this 2003 card I think I will have to schlep onto Ebay or send to checkoutmycards.com sometime (if I still have it, I might have slipped it into a trade with a Giants or Rookie Card collector).

Actually here is a better card from my PC to show:

1974 Fleer Hall of Fame - Y.A. Tittle

From the 1974 Fleer Hall of Fame (AKA: The Immortal Roll) set. Y.A. Tittle best known for playing with the Giants but he also played on the San Francisco 49ers and the Baltimore Colts. These HOF cards were unnumbered. The following year Fleer came out with a similar set of cards that look very much alike except they had numbers on the back and the card fronts have a brown border instead of a plain white border. EEK I need to check to see if that card is really that far off center or if it was just my hack-crop job when I scanned it. It could be a combination of both.