Ravens Forced to Play Opening Game on Road Because of Orioles Game... Are You Kidding Me?

The reigning champions of all professional football, the Baltimore Ravens, will be marking their triumphant return on Thursday, September fifth of this year against the well-matched and equally tough Denver Broncos on nationally televised prime time live from Denver....

Oh, what? Denver.... Hold on a second... Wait, what???

Yes, unfortunately, the powers that be scheduled the defending world champions to play their first game since winning Super Bowl 47 not at home, as is traditional and just right to do, but on the road because both the Ravens and their baseball counterparts, the Orioles, share the same parking lot and it just would have been a nightmare to have them both play at home on the same day.

Really? Are you screwing with my head here?

We are giving the Baltimore Ravens, Super Bowl 47 victors and reigning champs of professional football the shaft, because the perpetual cellar-dwelling Orioles are facing the Chicago White Sox in a likely meaningless game between two non-contenders before a crowd probably in the twenty thousand area at seven pm.

According to Major League Baseball, there was no possible way of changing the Orioles-White Sox game and thus the Ravens were delivered a road game against the Denver Broncos as reward for their victory in last year's championship game. Congrats fellas, here's Peyton Manning and the Broncos to start a new year off... On the road.

This is absolute lunacy. Move the freaking Orioles game, of which there will be eighty-one home games to just eight for the Ravens and none of which will be as the defending world champions of any professional sport likely in my lifetime, to one in the afternoon so they can play their precious useless game for 20,000 faithful so the winners in Baltimore, in front of seventy thousand or more diehard fans, can return victors to their home and champions of their sport...

What say you?