Listen—you think you've heard it all in this city, right? Then you see something that makes you go, "Hold up, *what*?"
### Ravens Said Nah to Elon Musk
I'ma say this once, hon: The Baltimore Ravens apparently told Elon Musk and his fancy tunnel company, The Boring Company, "Thanks, but no thanks" to a free tunnel. A FREE tunnel, connecting the stadium to the parking lots. The *Baltimore Business Journal* dropped this little nugget, and my jaw hit the floor faster than a Berger cookie crumb. Can you imagine that? Someone offers you somethin' for free, somethin' futuristic and wild, and you just... decline?
Now, I'm not sayin' a tunnel under Russell Street would solve all our problems – Lord knows we got enough potholes on North Avenue to fill a swimming pool – but a free tunnel? For the Ravens? That's just wild to me. It sounds like they were trying to offer a way for folks to zip from the stadium parking over to the M&T Bank Stadium itself, probably to ease game-day traffic that can back up worse than the JFX at rush hour. But the Ravens, they just weren't feelin' it. They said they “weren’t prepared to move forward at that time.” Dummy, when something's free, you at least *consider* it!
* **Traffic Relief?** Imagine less gridlock around the stadium on a Sunday. * **Future Tech?** Would've put Baltimore on the map for somethin' besides crabs and the Domino Sugars sign. * **Cost Savings?** It was *free*, y'all!
Look, I bleed purple, I was at that parade in 2013, toes frozen solid, but this one's got me scratching my head. We got real infrastructure needs, and while a private tunnel might seem like a luxury, the principal of turning down free, innovative stuff? That's Baltimore, hon — we don't break, we just bend loud, but sometimes we bend in ways that just don't make sense.
Keisha Rawlings-Dorsey, MiTL Sports Desk.
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