Girls Night Out: Baltimore’s Female Football Fans Flock to Ravens Stadium for annual ‘Purple Evening’

SELLOUT CROWD OF WOMEN GETS IN LINE TO LEARN EVERYTHING ABOUT FOOTBALL. Football 101 tutorials reminiscent of film 'Diner.' Barry Levinson's classic movie "Diner," featuring a matrimonial quiz on the former Baltimore Colts given to the lead character's prospective bride during the late 1950s, has nothing on the Baltimore Ravens' "Purple Evening" of the new milennium, an annual event for female football fans held yesterday at M&T Bank Stadium for the fifth consecutive year. Although the Ravens organization insisted in a press release that the event is "not exclusive to women"—despite acknowledging that "it is definitely catered to the female Ravens fans"—A Purple Evening attracted a sellout crowd of more than 7,000 avid fans of Charm City's current NFL team, nearly all of the attendees female. Read the full story at Voice of Baltimore.