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Spanish La Liga View team list. Soon after that, Flacco received the biggest contract ever for an NFL quarterback. But his stay in Baltimore ended last year, when rookie Lamar Jackson took over as the starter. Flacco was traded to Denver this past offseason and will finish the year on injured reserve.
Kaepernick made headlines for taking a knee during the Star-Spangled Banner before a preseason game. He participated in 12 games for San Francisco that year and has not played since. Baltimore running back Ray Rice, who ran for 59 yards against the 49ers, was cut by the Ravens before the season after a video was released showing him striking his fiance in an Atlantic City elevator. No team picked him up.
Anquan Boldin had six catches for yards and a touchdown for Baltimore to earn his only Super Bowl ring over a year career.
He was traded to San Francisco during the following offseason and recently retired as a Raven. Then San Francisco drove 80 yards, with Kaepernick rushing for 15 yards and completing an yard pass to Davis before finishing the drive with a pass to Crabtree, who broke through two potential Ravens tacklers on the way to a yard touchdown reception.
Then Baltimore was forced to punt from their own 9-yard line following Brooks' 8-yard sack of Flacco on third down, and Ted Ginn Jr. Kaepernick completed a yard pass to Davis on the next play, and Gore followed it up with a 6-yard touchdown run, cutting the score to 28— On the second play of the fourth quarter, Baltimore committed their first turnover when defensive back Tarell Brown forced and recovered a fumble from Ray Rice on the Ravens' yard line.
Three plays later, Akers missed went wide left on a yard field goal attempt, but Baltimore's Chykie Brown was penalized for running into the kicker, and Akers' second attempt was good from 34 yards, trimming the lead to 28— The Ravens responded on their ensuing possession, moving the ball 77 yards and advancing to the San Francisco 1-yard line, with Boldin catching two passes for 39 yards.
But they were unable to reach the end zone and settled for Tucker's yard field goal to put them back up by 8 points, 31— San Francisco stormed back, scoring in just five plays. Following a yard reception by Randy Moss and a yard burst by Gore, Kaepernick took the ball across the goal line on a yard run, the longest touchdown run by a quarterback in Super Bowl history.
However, the ensuing two-point conversion failed, so the 49ers were unable to break the deficit, still trailing at 31— On the Ravens' ensuing drive, Boldin caught two passes for 22 yards and Rice rushed for 11 yards as the team moved the ball 55 yards and scored on Tucker's yard field goal, making the score 34—29 with left in regulation.
San Francisco used up two timeouts on their next drive, but managed to move the ball to a first and goal on the Ravens' 7-yard line following a yard catch by Crabtree and a yard run by Gore. With four chances to take the lead, San Francisco started out with a 2-yard run by James to the 5-yard line. Then Kaepernick threw two incompletions, bringing up fourth down. On their last chance, Kaepernick tried to throw the ball to Crabtree in the end zone, but it was too far ahead and the pass fell incomplete.
Defensive back Jimmy Smith and Crabtree both made contact prior to the ball arriving, but no penalty was called and the 49ers turned the ball over on downs with left in the game. San Francisco managed to force a three-and-out on the Ravens' next drive, but as they had only one timeout remaining, the Ravens were able to run the clock down to twelve seconds.
On fourth down, and after the Ravens then called a timeout of their own, punter Sam Koch fielded the snap in his own end zone. In an effort to kill as much of the twelve remaining seconds on the clock, Koch was instructed not to punt the ball but rather hang on to it and scramble around in the end zone.
Koch was able to scramble for eight seconds before giving up an intentional safety by running out of the side of the end zone, leaving just four seconds remaining.
On the ensuing free kick, Ginn returned the ball 31 yards, but was tackled at midfield by linebacker Josh Bynes as time expired. Emergency lights provided some illumination during the power outage. Play was interrupted for 34 minutes because of a minute partial power outage.
The power failed with remaining in the third quarter with the Ravens leading 28—6. Emergency generators provided backup lighting. The New Orleans Fire Department rescued people from elevator seven, but other elevators were brought to the ground uneventfully. Attendees used double the usual amount of data for their cell phones. NFL chief security officer Jeffrey Miller attributed fans' calmness to their preoccupation with their electronics. SMG, the Superdome's management company, recently upgraded electrical systems at the facility.
In an October 15, memo, Louisiana officials expressed concern that the equipment bringing electricity into the stadium from utility company Entergy had a "chance of failure". Investigations homed in on a newly installed switchgear. One of those relays tripped. Subsequent tests showed one of the relays functioned properly and the other did not. But no one was sure what caused the initial problem. Everything changed after that, though, until Ray Lewis and Co.
But there were plenty of white-knuckle moments and the Ravens had to make four stops inside their 7 at the end. For a Super Bowl with so many subplots, it almost had to end with a flourish. The win capped a sensational month since the star linebacker announced he was leaving the game after 17 Hall of Fame-caliber years.
At 4 hours, 14 minutes, it was the longest Super Bowl ever. The loss of power left players from both sides stretching and chatting with each other. His current deal expired with this win. Yet they got back in the game almost immediately. A 2-point conversion pass failed when the Ravens blitzed.
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