The Davante Adams drama within the NFL has taken a poetic flip.
Actually.
When reviews emerged that the star large receiver had requested a commerce from the Las Vegas Raiders, each media outlet underneath the solar kicked hypothesis over potential touchdown spots into overdrive. We right here at SB Nation had been completely not immune, posting a narrative concerning six potential commerce locations earlier than taking the matter to the critically-acclaimed* sequence “Soccer Courtroom.”
*Who’re these critics? Relations, largely. However we digress …
Nonetheless, the most recent twist to the story has each member of the sports activities media world reaching again to their highschool days, and remembering their poetry. Or making an attempt to, that’s.
On Friday Adams posted a picture of none aside from Edgar Allan Poe, the well-known American poet and creator of quite a few works of thriller and macabre. Together with, in fact, “The Raven,” a piece that tells the story of a mournful pupil lamenting the lack of his lover, and a go to from a speaking raven:
That work from the Baltimore native additionally impressed the nickname utilized when professional soccer returned to Maryland, with the Baltimore Ravens.
As you may anticipate, that put up prompted many to conclude that Adams can be heading to Baltimore. Though some, at the very least across the water coolers at SB Nation’s places of work, believed it was merely a sign that Adams needed to pay for the Raiders “nevermore,” because the often-quoted line from “The Raven” reads. Within the poem solely phrase the raven would say was “nevermore.”
Inform me what thy lordly identify is on the Night time’s Plutonian shore!”
Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.”
So, you possibly can see why NFL followers and media members alike try to recall their highschool literature courses …
In fact, there’s a easy clarification right here.
Adams simply actually likes Poe’s work.
(We’ll ignore the truth that Poe can also be the identify of the Ravens mascot).
