 Team management started with a list of 17 names from an original list of more than 100.From there, focus groups of a total of 200 Baltimore area residents reduced the list of names to six, and then a phone survey of 1000 people trimmed it down to three, Marauders, Americans, and Ravens.Finally, a fan contest drawing 33,288 voters picked "Ravens," a name that alludes to the famous poem, "The Raven", by Edgar Allan Poe, who spent the early part of his career in Baltimore, and is also buried there.