Ravens survive late power surge to win Super Bowl

 
p55 Coach John Harbaugh
4 February 2013

Local boy Jacoby Jones scored two touchdowns, including a 108-yard kick return, as Baltimore Ravens held off a heroic San Francisco 49ers fightback in a stunning Super Bowl.

Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco threw three touchdowns, including a 56-yard pass for New Orleans native Jones, as the Ravens won 34-31.

Baltimore were ahead 28-6 in the third quarter when the game was halted by a power cut which lasted more than half an hour. The 49ers were transformed after the re-start and quarterback Colin Kaepernick led the fightback, passing for a touchdown and running another in a 23-3 run which put the 49ers in the game.

No team in Super Bowl history had ever come back from more than 10 points down to win, though, and the Ravens’ defence just held out.

Flacco said: “It’s unbelievable. I tell you what, we don’t make it easy.

“But that’s the way the city of Baltimore is, that’s the way we are.”

Baltimore had raced into an early lead with Flacco touchdown passes to Anquan Boldin and Dennis Pitta. Jones extended the advantage to 21-3 when he caught Flacco’s perfectly floated pass and trotted in.

Baltimore were 21-6 up at the break, and then 28-6 following Jones’s kick-off return. Niners coach Jim Harbaugh — up against his brother John — who coaches the Ravens, inspired his men during the power cut and the resumption saw touchdowns from Michael Crabtree and Frank Gore to make it 20-28.

Following an exchange of field goals, Colin Kaepernick ran in from 15-yards but his two-point conversion attempt failed, and Justin Tucker’s 38-yard field goal made it 34-29 deep into the fourth quarter. Baltimore condeded a safety to eat up time and held out for the win.

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