Todd Heap: “You Got Me With ‘Hard Knocks’”
The Ravens hosted the first-ever “Hard Knocks” on HBO during the 2001 offseason, which, of course, followed our Super Bowl XXXV championship over the Giants. It was good television and a ratings hit.
The reason it worked so well that year was because we were the hottest team as the defending champions, and we had dominant, entertaining personalities: Ray Lewis, Tony Siragusa, who is here today as part of the FOX-TV crew preparing to broadcast Sunday’s game against the Seahawks, Rod Woodson, Shannon Sharpe, Brian Billick, Jonathan Ogden and our rookie tight end and No.