While Offense Is Pondered, Colts’ Defense Takes Over With their 20-3 victory Saturday, the Colts sounded a warning shot for the Jets in next Sunday’s A.F.C. championship game and perhaps beyond.

Well-Rested Manning Leads Colts Past Ravens The Colts showed no signs of rust as they dissected a Ravens team that never got in gear. The win sends the Colts to the A.F.C championship game.

Ravens Lineman Can Create His Own Ending The next challenge for the Ravens’ Michael Oher, whose story was chronicled in “The Blind Side,” comes Saturday night against the Colts in Indianapolis, where his past and present will intersect.

RAVENS 33, PATRIOTS 14; Dominating Victory by the Ravens Shakes Up a Dynasty Their injured receiver, Wes Welker, watched from a luxury box, his crutches propped nearby providing a fitting reminder of how fragile the New England Patriots' grip on success has become. Perhaps, if better days are ahead, the Patriots will look back on this season as a blip in their dynasty, the moments when a young team tasted bitter defeat and grew from it. But on Sunday, their glorious past gave way to a miserable present, the Baltimore Ravens overwhelming the Patriots with an 83-yard touc...

For Jets, Success Far Beyond One Playoff Victory The Jets’ win over the Bengals highlighted Rex Ryan’s Baltimore pedigree, from the Ravens players he brought with him, to an overall approach to football.

After Super Bowl Catch, Tyree Is Just Hanging On David Tyree, who helped the Giants win a Super Bowl, has carved a niche for himself on the Baltimore Ravens by excelling on special teams.

N.F.L. ROUNDUP; The Ravens Win and Are In; New England Is Next Willis McGahee ran for a career-high 167 yards and 3 touchdowns, including a 77-yarder that included a vicious stiff-arm, and the Baltimore Ravens clinched an American Football Conference wild-card berth Sunday by beating the host Oakland Raiders, 21-13. ''It's not easy to make the playoffs in the National Football League, and our guys did it, and it's been a tough road,'' Coach John Harbaugh said.

Penalties Cost Ravens At times, the Ravens seem to be the only ones who don't realize their tough, physical, old-fashioned brand of football is, these days, often illegal. Baltimore leads the league in penalty yards. On Sunday at Pittsburgh, Baltimore managed to turn a playoff-clinching win into a loss, because of 113 yards' worth of flags. They weren't your run-of-the mill flags, either. Kelly Washington's hold negated a Willis McGahee touchdown. Terrell Suggs's block in the back wiped out a Domonique Foxworth scor...

STEELERS 23, RAVENS 20; Steelers Scrape by the Ravens and Keep Slim Hopes Alive Before Sunday's game against the Baltimore Ravens, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs together with their computers would have had a hard time figuring out the chain of events necessary for the Pittsburgh Steelers to make the playoffs. But it was pretty simple to the Steelers. ''We knew if we lost, there was no scenario; we're out,'' Steelers wide receiver Hines Ward said after the game.

Ravens Are Hovering Over Ocean of Mediocrity In the barren, featureless prairie of the American Football Conference playoff race, an 8-6 team stands out like a mountain. The Baltimore Ravens were determined to hang around .500 this season -- they were 3-3, then 4-4, then 5-5, then 6-6. But they were too good to stay there. A two-game winning streak nudged them above the conference's Even Stevens, and they now control their future. The Ravens are in position for the fifth seed in the playoffs, and a division title is still possible. The Ra...

The 2006 Baltimore Ravens season began with the team trying to improve on their 6-10 record of 2005. The Ravens, for the first time in franchise history, started 4-0, under the leadership of former Titans quarterback Steve McNair.

The Ravens lost 2 straight games mid-season on offensive troubles, prompting coach Brian Billick to drop their offensive coordinator Jim Fassel in their week 7 bye. After the bye, and with Billick calling the offense, Baltimore would record a five-game win streak before losing to the Bengals in week 13.

Still ranked second overall to first-place San Diego, The Ravens continued on. They defeated the Chiefs, continued dominance over rival Cleveland, and held the defending Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers to only one touchdown at Heinz Field, allowing the Ravens to clinch the AFC North.

The Ravens ended the regular season with a franchise-best 13-3 record. Baltimore had secured the AFC North title, the #2 AFC playoff seed, and clinched a 1st-round bye by season's end. The Ravens were slated to face the Indianapolis Colts in the second round of the playoffs, in the first meeting of the two teams in the playoffs. Many Baltimore and Indianapolis fans saw this historic meeting as a sort of "Judgement Day" with the new team of Baltimore facing the old team of Baltimore (the former Baltimore Colts having left Baltimore under questionable circumstances in 1983). In one of the most bizarre playoff games in NFL history, both Indianapolis and Baltimore were held to scoring only field goals as the two defenses slugged it out all over M&T Bank Stadium. McNair threw two costly interceptions, including one at the 1-yard line. The eventual Super-Bowl-Champion Colts won 15-6, ending Baltimore's season

From 1996-1998, the team originally used a logo that featured raven wings flanking a shield with the letter "B". However, the US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a jury verdict that the logo infringed on the copyright in a logo drawing by Frederick E. Bouchat, a Maryland amateur artist and security guard.

Bouchat sued the Ravens, claiming that he was the first one to design the "B" shield shortly after the team announced their intentions to move to Baltimore. The team defended themselves, claiming that the logo was made independently. But the court ruled in favor of Bouchat, stating that team owner Modell had access to Bouchat's work: Bouchat had faxed a copy of his design to then-chairman of the Maryland Stadium Authority John Moag, who shared the same office building as Modell.[4] Ultimately, however, a jury later awarded Bouchat zero damages during the damages phase of the case.[5]

As a result of the lawsuit, a new logo was designed, featuring a purple and black raven's head in profile, with the letter "B" superimposed in metallic gold and white. The secondary logo of the Baltimore Ravens is a shield with alternating Calvert Banners in kind with the flag of Maryland (which incorporates the flag of Baltimore) interlocked with a stylized "B" and "R"