You didn't realize you were naming teams associated with Baltimore?! "Colts," latterly moved to Indianapolis, are thought to have been named with a reference to the great horse race of the region, the Preakness. The "Ravens" (who I think are the only songbirds after whom a football team is named; but cf. their fellow corvids the Blue Jays, and also the Cardinals and Orioles, in another sport) are named for the title character in E.A.Poe's famous poem; Poe died and is buried in Baltimore, though he was from Boston and lived longer elsewhere, e.g. NYC, where he wrote "The Raven." A truer name for a Baltimore team, with cultural reference, might be the Doggypoophages, nodding to Divine in John Waters's "Pink Flamingos."

Re Catholic ghetto and media: Whatever a serious, committed Catholic thinks, says, or does, as an expression of his/her faith, should be fair game, and all the better for breaking out of the enclosure of traditional subject matter, perspectives and attitudes.