The Super Bowl started in 1967, as the Green Bay Packers faced the Kansas City Chiefs in Los Angeles. The Packers won 35-10, and the MVP was the quarterback for the Packers, Brett Starr. Starr was 16 of 23 on passes for 250 yards and a TD. Yet 46 years later Joe Flacco would win the MVP and was 22 of 33 with 287 yards.
In the 47th Super Bowl, the game of brotherly love, there are two brothers that don’t look at it that way. Jim Harbaugh the coach of the San Francisco 49ers, and the Baltimore Ravens head coach Jim Harbaugh, went head to head as the two brothers try to raise the Lombardi trophy.
The 49ers come into the game with a young quarterback only starting his 10th game in the NFL. On the other side the Ravens quarterback who has started since 2008, and has plenty of experience with the pigskin. Also the Ravens team captain Ray Lewis who leads the NFL in post season tackles, will be playing in his last game.
The start of the game was slow for the 49ers as they let the Ravens get the inside edge as they got the first touchdown of the game. The 49ers lead by Colin Kaepernick went down the field but only got a field goal, but that wouldn’t stop the Ravens offense as they went up 21-6 at the half.
The 49ers would regroup and show those Ravens how San Fran plays football. As the 3rd quarter started half the lights in the New Orleans Superdome went out, and didn’t come back on for 34 minutes. After the lights were restored the 49ers started to look like a real championship team, as they scored twice and held the Ravens to only one touchdown in the 3rd quarter.
A game that people thought out of reach for San Francisco would come down to the last quarter. As the Niners were only down five points, the Ravens played some really fundamentally sound football, only holding them to eight points. The Ravens would later tack on two field goals, and lead the game 34-31.
The Harbowl would come down to one possession, at the 15 yard line and one shot at winning Super Bowl 47. Colin Kaepernick would lob a pass to top receiver Michael Crabtree, but as Crabtree went for the ball he was held by the defender and could not receive the pass. No flags were called, and the game ended. For San Francisco it was a disappointment but also a learning experience. As for the Ravens, they played an outstanding game, and Ray Lewis wouldn’t want to go out any other way then with a win in the Super Bowl.
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