The Super Bowl champions will open the NFL season on the road in just over a week, a wrinkle in the usual practice that isn’t sitting well with fans in the city whose team lost in the playoffs to the champs. All around Denver, there are banners and posters. Worst of all, a giant picture of quarterback Joe Flacco, whose Baltimore Ravens beat the Denver Broncos 38-35 in double-overtime in the playoffs last January, adorns Sports Authority Field at Mile High. Fans are taking this so personally that there’s even a petition to remove the signage, but the problem is that the season opener is a prime-time extravaganza, one that’s bigger than the teams involved and that usually evolves into a post-post-Super Bowl party for the champions. The Ravens weren’t able to play the game in Baltimore because of a scheduling conflict with the Orioles, so the game was moved West. Source: Washington Post
so, when SB champions typically play the season opener at home, does the league put posters of both teams all over town to hype up the opener? are denver fans just being butthurt over nothing or is this abnormal?
the orioles hecked them, the tv station cant treat this like a home opener for the ravens even if it was supposed to be.
