The great Raven helmet debate

yeah they used to have a different logo, but got sued because it was a ripoff of someone else's logo.
From Wikipedia
The team's first helmet logo, used from 1996 through 1998, featured raven wings outspread from a shield displaying a letter B framed by the word Ravens overhead and a heraldic cross underneath. The US Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a jury verdict that the logo infringed on a copyright retained by Frederick E. Bouchat, an amateur artist and security guard in Maryland.

Bouchat had submitted his design to the Maryland Stadium Authority by fax after learning that Baltimore was to acquire an NFL team. He was not credited for the design when the logo was announced. Bouchat sued the team, claiming to be the designer of the emblem; representatives of the team asserted that the image had been designed independently. The court ruled in favor of Bouchat, noting that team owner Modell had access to Bouchat's work. Bouchat's fax had gone to John Moag, the Maryland Stadium Authority chairman, whose office was located in the same building as Modell's.[3] Bouchat ultimately was awarded no monetary compensation, though, in the damages phase of the case.[4]

The Baltimore Sun ran a poll showing three designs for helmet logos. Fans participating in the poll expressed a preference for a raven's head in profile over other designs. Art Modell announced that he would honor this preference but still wanted a letter B to appear somewhere in the design. The new Ravens logo featured a raven's head in profile with the letter superimposed. The secondary logo is a shield that honors Baltimore's history of heraldry. Alternating Calvert and Baltimore emblems (seen also in the flag of Maryland and the flag of Baltimore) are interlocked with stylized letters B and R.

 

Tell him to go to this website.

http://www.nationalchamps.net/Helmet_Project/

It has the Baltimore 1996-1998 helmet

 

I think I remember that logo now...It's still gay though just because it's Baltimore.

 

my eyes!

 

cool website

 

That's correct. The helmet would have looked like this:

 

The Jags did have a different logo in 1993 before they started play.
http://www.logoserver.com/football/JaxJaguarsInaugUni93.GIF

torontotitanfan has the helmet above