The Communicator

He is everywhere in Baltimore. The slender face with the receding hairline and jutting jaw is on several Baltimore-area billboards or in team advertisements in national sports magazines. He has been active in the community, not selling just the Ravens, but himself. One day could include several motivational speeches that might have stops at the Baltimore Teachers Association or a high school football clinic with 200 coaches. Brian Billick has enamored fans in Baltimore. He quotes Colin Powell and Chinese philosophers. Five-syllable words roll off his tongue. The Ravens' permanent seat license sales have improved by nearly 3,000 since last season - 57,000 are now sold - and Billick is the reason why. Hired in January to replace Ted Marchibroda, Billick, 45, signed a six-year, $9 million contract as a rookie head coach in the NFL, and the Ravens think they got a bargain. "He is the entire