Billick calls the Ravens Owner a Pig

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But a pig is good. The Vikings previous ownership are chickens. That's bad.

 

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...Newly minted Johns Hopkins University graduates were proudly proclaiming themselves "pigs" yesterday after an unusual but apparently effective commencement speech by Baltimore Ravens head coach Brian Billick.

 

The football coach repeatedly invoked a homespun bacon-and-egg metaphor to win over a student body that had questioned the appropriateness of having a sports figure honored at an elite college known mostly for its academic rigor and ultra-nerd personality.

 

"In a bacon-and-egg breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed," Billick said from the lectern at Hopkins' lacrosse field. "Be that pig."

 

With that admonition, delivered in a stern voice from the square-jawed coach, Billick earned one of several hearty laughs from the graduates, and their families and friends....

 

 

...But Billick, who spoke without any notes, managed to seduce the crowd with broad motivational themes and football anecdotes. In explaining his pig-and-chicken thesis, he took a swipe at the owners of his former team, the Minnesota Vikings.

 

"We had 10 separate owners," he said, claiming their respective individual commitment to the team was minimal. "I don't mean it disrespectfully, but they were chickens."

 

Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti, by comparison, is "very much a pig," Billick said...