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CHAMPIONSHIP RING
THE STORY OF 2001 SUPER BOWL XXXV
BALTIMORE RAVENS
Super Bowl XXXV was an American football game between the American Football
Conference (AFC) champion Baltimore Ravens and the National Football Conference
(NFC) champion New York Giants to decide the National Football League (NFL)
champion for the 2000 season. The Ravens defeated the Giants by the score of 34–7,
tied for the seventh largest Super Bowl margin of victory with Super Bowl XXXVII. The
game was played on January 28, 2001 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
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The Ravens, who posted a 12–4 regular season record, became the third wild card
team to win the Super Bowl and the second in four years. Also, the city of Baltimore
had its first Super Bowl title since the Baltimore Colts' triumph thirty years prior and
became the first city to win major professional football championships with four
different franchises, the others being the Colts, the 1985 Baltimore Stars of the United
States Football League and the 1995 Baltimore Stallions of the Canadian Football
League. The Giants entered the game seeking to go 3–0 in Super Bowls after also
finishing the regular season with a 12–4 record.
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Baltimore allowed only 152 yards of offense by New York (the third-lowest total ever
in a Super Bowl), recorded 4 sacks, and forced 5 turnovers. All 16 of the Giants'
possessions ended with punts or interceptions, with the exception of the last one,
which ended when time expired in the game. New York's lone touchdown, a 97-yard
kickoff return, was quickly answered by Baltimore on an 84-yard touchdown return on
the ensuing kickoff. The Giants became the first team since the Cincinnati Bengals in
Super Bowl XXIII to not score an offensive touchdown and the fifth overall (joining the
Bengals as well as the Minnesota Vikings in Super Bowl IX, the Washington Redskins
in Super Bowl VII, and the Miami Dolphins in Super Bowl VI.)
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Baltimore's Ray Lewis, a native of Lakeland, Florida, less than an hour from Super
Bowl host city Tampa, who made 3 solo tackles, 2 assists, and blocked 4 passes,
became the second linebacker to be named Super Bowl MVP after Chuck Howley in
Super Bowl V. Lewis also became the first defensive player to be honored since Larry
Brown in Super Bowl XXX, and at the time the seventh defensive player to be Super
Bowl MVP, joining Howley, Jake Scott, Harvey Martin, Randy White, Richard Dent, and
Brown (since Lewis, only three additional defensive players have been named Super
Bowl MVP: Tampa Bay Buccaneers safety Dexter Jackson in Super Bowl XXXVII,
Seattle Seahawks linebacker Malcolm Smith in Super Bowl XLVIII, and Denver
Broncos linebacker Von Miller in Super Bowl 50).
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Midway through the season, with the team at 5–3, Billick benched starting
quarterback Tony Banks and replaced him with Trent Dilfer. Although his statistics
were hardly distinguished (12 touchdowns, 11 interceptions, 76.6 passer rating),
and the team lost in his first game as a starter, Dilfer led them to victory in their last
seven regular season games to finish in second place in the AFC Central with a
12–4 record and entered the playoffs as a wild-card team.
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