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THE BATTALION
Defense carries Ravens ^
to Super Bowl victory s
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Baltimore’s
brazen defense backed up its bragging.
After boasting all week that the Gi
ants could not move on their league
leading unit, Ray Lewis and the
Ravens did what they said they would,
beating New York 34-7 for their first
Super Bowl victory.
Despite the score, Sunday’s game
was as advertised — a battle of de
fenses until New York’s wilted late in
the game.
Led by Lewis, the MVP, the
Ravens intercepted Kerry Collins four
times, the final pick returned 49 yards
for a touchdown by Duane Starks, the
first of three TDs on three plays late in
the third quarter. The other two were
kickoff returns for scores by Ron
Dixon of New York and Jennaine
Lewis of Baltimore, the first time that
has ever happened in a Super Bowl.
“If you put this in a storybook, no
body would believe it,” said Lewis,
who was arrested last year on murder
charges in the stabbing deaths of two
men at a Super Bowl party in Atlanta.
He subsequently pleaded guilty to a
misdemeanor charge of obstructing
justice.
“We didn’t just break records, we
shattered them,” Lewis said. “We
dominated literally. This is what you
work your whole life for. You come
from childhood, dreaming whatever
you want it to be, but now, at 25, to be
a world champion, what else can I
dream of?”
The Ravens held the Giants to just
149 yards total offense in giving Art
Modell his first Super Bowl win in 40
years as an owner.
Super Bowl roundup
Time of possessionln the air
Total yards
Ravens 245
Giants 150
First downs
Ravens 13
Giants 11
Interceptions
Ravens 0
Giants 4
Penalties
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9/70 yards 6/27 yards
He won one NFL title in 35 seasons
in Cleveland before moving his fran
chise to Baltimore in 1996, but he had
never been to a Super Bowl, losing
two close AFC title games in Cleve
land.
The 75-year-old Modell won by
beating his good friend Wellington
Mara of the Giants, who has 75 sea
sons in the NFL.
“To the people of Baltimore, to the
people of Maryland. This is for you,”
said Modell, who stood on the podium
hugging son David as he received the
Vince Lombardi Trophy from com
missioner Paul Tagliabue.
So effective was Baltimore’s de
fense that the New York offense nev
er got inside its 29. The game might as
well have been stopped after Trent Dil-
fer’s 38-yard touchdown pass to Bran
don Stokley with 6:50 left in the first
quarter gave the Ravens a 7-0 lead. It
stayed that way for most of the first
half.
Lewis, Ravens linebacker,
named Super Bowl MVP
LEWIS
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Ray Lewis answered all the questions on Sunday.
The Baltimore Ravens linebacker, NFL Defensive
Player of the Year, gave his team ft rallying point in the
Super Bowl as he sat through! a tough, week-long
grilling from the media. He was often sullen, never re
pentant.
Then, on game day, he let out all the emotion with a
defining defensive performance that led the Ravens to
the NFL championship over the New York Giants, 34-
7, and was voted the game’s most valuable player.
Lewis came to Tampa, hoping to talk football, pre
ferring to discuss a dominant Baltimore defense that had set an NFL record
for a 16-game season by allowing only 165 points and then continued that
in the playoffs by surrendering only one touchdown and 16 points in three
games.
He would have liked to talk about 12 tackles and an interception re
turned for a touchdown in the divisional playoff against Tennessee, or sev
en tackles and a fumble recovery in the AFC championship game against
Oakland.
Instead, he was cross-examined over and over about his trial following
the murders of two men in Atlanta after last year’s Super Bowl. Coach Bri
an Billick and his players tried to protect the big linebacker, tried to turn
the questioning away from the Atlanta affair.
The trial was over, they said. Lewis had been acquitted, pleading guilty
to a lesser charge. He had been fined $250,000 by the league, a punishment
he has appealed. Now, move on and leave the man alone.
Still, the interrogation continued, and Lewis — a floppy hat pulled down
tight over his forehead — sat through them.
On Sunday, there were no more questions, just a football game to be
played. And Lewis has never needed any protection there.
Back in the environment where he has flourished, he tenorized the Gi
ants’ offense. He seemed to be all over the place, stuffing miming plays,
helping the secondary, deflecting a couple of passes, including one that
turned into an interception. He was a constant presence on defense, one
New York was never able to avoid.
Lewis shrugged off a Baltimore attack that struggled through five games
back in October without scoring a touchdown. That anemic offense hard
ly disturbed him, he said. The Ravens’ defenders couldn’t control that. What
they could control was how many touchdowns the other team scored.
He played defense the same way he talked it. “We don’t give up points,”
Lewis said during the week. “So whatever you give us, three points, sev
en points, that will be enough for us.”
He was right about that.
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wanted to be was the quarterback
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leased by the Buccaneers afterlast,
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we needed them. We aren’t prem
St. Louis, but we got the job done'
is a team that puts wins ahead of e.
Brad Maynard of the Giant
Kyle Richardson each brok;
record of nine punts — Mayra::
11, Richardson 10.
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