The Baltimore Ravens are Baltimore's NFL team. The Baltimore Orioles are Baltimore's Major League Baseball team. They are both still there. Neither one became the other.
Baltimore Ravens are. Like in the sentence the Baltimore ravens are awesome!
The name is in recognition of the city's most famous writer, Edgar Allen Poe, and his most famous poem, The Raven.
The name came from the famous Edgar Allen Poe short story The Raven. Poe lived, worked, was married in, and died in Baltimore ("the city that reads").
An NFL Team for Baltimore, Maryland