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The Ravens became only the third wild-card team to win a Super Bowl championship. The interception return for a touchdown, followed by two kick return TDs, marked the quickest time in Super Bowl history that three touchdowns had been scored. The title made the Ravens the fourth Baltimore-based pro football team to win a league championship.
The Ravens were owned by Modell until 2004 when he sold the team to Baltimore businessman Steve Bisciotti. [3] Over their 29 seasons in the NFL, the Ravens have become a successful team. Through the 2024 season, their record of 268 wins, 199 losses, and 1 tie is the best all-time regular season record among active franchises.
Before the 1970 merger between the American Football League (AFL) and the National Football League (NFL), the two leagues met in four such contests. The first two were marketed as the "AFL–NFL World Championship Game", but were also casually referred to as "the Super Bowl game" during the television broadcast. [3]
Before the football team, there was the Baltimore Ravens wheelchair basketball team — the original Baltimore Ravens. [17] In 1972, the Ravens wheelchair basketball team was founded by Ralph Smith, long-term resident of Baltimore, second Vice President of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association (NWBA) and Member of the NWBA Hall of Fame ...
A dozen years later, the Ravens won 38-35 in double overtime at Denver — a comeback dubbed the “Mile High Miracle” — before a road victory over New England in the AFC championship game.
The 1920 Akron Pros were named the first APFA (NFL) champions. The National Football League champions, prior to the merger between the National Football League (NFL) and American Football League (AFL) in 1970, were determined by two different systems. The National Football League was established on September 17, 1920, as the American Professional Football Association (APFA). The APFA changed ...
The last time Baltimore hosted an AFC championship game, the city was enjoying quite a sports renaissance. The Orioles had won the World Series a few months earlier. “It literally felt, at least ...
It was the only AFC Championship Game to have been played in Baltimore until 2023. By the time the Colts hosted their first AFC Championship Game in Indianapolis (which they won en route to their first Super Bowl win as an Indianapolis team), Baltimore had already won an AFC title and a Super Bowl with their current franchise, the Ravens.