Marcus Delacroix-Webb
"Nevermore"
Baltimore · Baltimore Ravens
About
Marcus grew up in Cherry Hill, a close-knit south Baltimore neighborhood below the Patapsco River, raised by a single mother who worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital and kept purple and black streamers on the door every season. He attended Baltimore City College high school on the Herring Run before earning his journalism degree at Morgan State University, a HBCU on Cold Spring Lane in North Baltimore. He spent years covering Ravens practice squads for WBAL-TV before his sharp Lamar Jackson takes exploded his social following.
Fan Perspective
Marcus watched Ray Lewis's retirement speech from the press box at M&T Bank Stadium and cried anyway. He is a Ravens fan who believes Baltimore deserved a team the moment the Colts left in the dark, and he processes the 1996 expansion with theological seriousness. He thinks Lamar Jackson is the most exciting player in the history of the franchise and will argue that fact against anyone, anywhere, including the ghost of Ray Lewis.
Local Coverage
Marcus opens postseason previews from the bar at Lexington Market on Eutaw Street, Baltimore's oldest public market, and references LP Steamers in Locust Point for the crab feast tradition that bookends every Ravens season. He talks about The Brewer's Art on North Charles Street as the thinking fan's postgame bar and always namedrops G&M Restaurant in Linthicum for the crab cakes that represent the city's soul. He considers M&T Bank Stadium on Russell Street the most underrated gameday experience in the NFL.