Many sports analysts said that the Baltimore Ravens were underdogs…Much of the USA were for the San Francisco 49rs…Only a few states were wanting the Baltimore Ravens to win…The Pittsburg Steelers were actually for the Baltimore Ravens even being the Baltimore Ravens rival team…The Steelers wanted to be the only team with 6 Super Bowl rings…
The Baltimore Ravens were 4.5 points underdogs vs the San Francisco 49rs…but what else is new…For all the playoffs, all the analysts said that the Baltimore Ravens were underdogs with the Indianapolis Colts, Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots…The Colts came to Baltimore to play us and we won…Off to Denver we head as the Ravens try to beat Peyton Manning…Guess what, we did beat Peyton Manning and his team in double overtime…Now it was off to New England…The #1 seed in the AFC…The Baltimore Ravens have always had a tough time beating Tom Brady and crew but this time the whole team was pumped…Guess what, we did beat the Patriots and off to the Super Bowl in New Orleans, LA…otherwise known as NOLA…
All these wins versus all the 3 other division winners led us to be the AFC Champions…Baltimore Ravens Nation went wild…
New Orleans was hosting the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras is going on…A city full of excited people with many things to do…Tickets for the Super Bowl are high but for any Baltimore Ravens fan, I’m sure it was worth it going to the Mercedes-Benz Superdome…The AFC hotel was all decked with for the AFC Champs…Super Bowl Live was going on all week long before the Super Bowl…
The Superdome field was all painted on each end…One in the San Francisco 49rs colors and the other end in the Baltimore Ravens colors…Would have loved to have been there to see all of this…
The most important reason for our Baltimore Ravens wanting to go all the way to the Super Bowl is that Ray Lewis, #52, ILB, was retiring…17 years with the Ravens was coming to an end…It was time for Ray to do things with his family and kids…His retirement was suppose to be after the first playoff game vs the Colts…His retirement was put on hold until the second playoff game…Then his retirement was put on hold one more time while we played the Patriots…The Patriots put signs up all over that Ray’s retirement was ending the day off the playoff…Needless to say, The Baltimore Ravens proved the New England Patriots wrong…We ended Brady’s career and it was time for him to sit at home and watch the Super Bowl from home…So Ray’s retirement wasn’t ending until February 3, 2013…If the Ravens won or lost, Ray was retiring…
February 3, 2013…6:30pm (EST)…Kick off…Team captains meet with the Head Referee…Ravens are visitors so we get to call HEADS or TAILS…Ray chooses HEADS…The referee flips the coin and it is HEADS…Ravens defer to second half…Game on! Our Ravens are doing great…Heading down the field…Scoring…Jacoby Jones runs for 108 yards for a TD…whoo hooo! At half time we are ahead of the 49rs and all the Ravens fans at the Superdome are going wild…Third quarter, or thereabout, the lights go out…OOPS! Did a 49rs fan pull the plug so that offense of the Ravens slow down?? We were heading up the field to score again…After thirty-some odd minutes, the lights come on and game on….Now the 49rs are scoring and our momentum has halted…Oh no! Are we gonna lose this game?? No one is blocking Kaepernick…He’s running and throwing…Now the score is close and the Ravens need to get their plans together…Fourth quarter and now it’s a close game…What a game….but the Ravens play it smart and let the kicker, Koch, stay in the end zone instead of punting the ball so the 49rs can get the 2 points…Not much time on the clock now…Like 4 seconds…Now the Ravens punt to the 49rs and the clock ticks out…Ravens win…34 – 31…Whoo hoooo!! We are now the Super Bowl Champions and now Ray Lewis has his retirement ring that he can cherish forever…
The most interesting part about this Super Bowl was that 2 brothers, John & Jim, are head coaches…They are 15 months apart…Big brother John is the Head Coach for the Ravens and little brother Jim is the Head Coach for the 49rs…They have always been competitive since they have been little…Their dad, Jack, always made sure the boys learned how to do be themselves in everything that they did…Family rivalry in the Super Bowl…Yep! They both want to win but only one brother can win…
The teams arrived in NOLA in their own planes…One team came out of the plane as if they were already winners while the other team came out looking like they were second place…The Ravens came out all dressed up and ready to take on the 49rs…The 49rs came off of their plane dressed in jeans and t-shirts..
This says it all after the Super Bowl was over…Ravens Nation was proud of their team…Joe Flacco became MVP and he got to say “I’m going to Disney World”..He also received an orange & black 2014 corvette…(Oriole’s colors, really??) Baltimore was throwing a parade in the Ravens honor…They Mayor and Governor was at the parade…The parade was ending at their M&T Bank Stadium and everyone could come in and see our Winners…The stadium held about 100,00 fans and so did the streets…More people stood outside of the stadium wishing they could get in to see our beloved Ravens…but just to be there, what an awesome feeling it must have been…
Congratulations to our Baltimore Ravens on a great season…Ray Lewis all of Baltimore Ravens Nation will miss you but wish you the very best in all your endeavors…Ray cleaned out his locker and wow! it don’t look right…Baltimore Ravens need to pick another great ILB to replace Ray but can anyone really replace Ray…I doubt it…
