- Around this time last year, my home football team was in it's championship game, the game that would decide who would get the the Super Bowl. My two favourite teams were playing, the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots. Tom Brady, quarterback of the Patriots, has been to the Super Bowl many times before, while the Ravens have not been to the Super Bowl in over ten years. Knowing this, I was sort of rooting for the Ravens to win. I really wanted my home team to go the whole way. After a long and intense game, it all came down to a field goal. If the Ravens' kicker made this short kick, the Ravens would win.

He missed it.

- I'm used to the dejection you feel after a team you love loses when it's so close. A few years before, the Patriots had gotten to the Super Bowl only to lose to the Giants. Last year, the year the Patriots beat the Ravens, they lost to the Giants yet again.

- This year, the Ravens have gotten to the playoffs yet again, taking another shot at greatness. However, a few days before the Ravens' first playoff would occur.. Ray Lewis, spiritual leader of the Ravens, announced he would retire after the playoffs, this season being his 'last ride'.

- Knowing this, the Ravens went into M&T Bank stadium, emotionally super charged. That day, the Ravens defense held the Colts' offense to not score a single touchdown, in a resounding win. However, the next game would not be so easy. Peyton (spelling?) Manning and the Denver Broncos nearly won against the Ravens. With only a few seconds left, and trailing a full touchdown, Raven's quarterback Joe Flacco threw an absolute bomb to a wide open receiver, throwing the game into overtime, in which the Ravens' needed another field goal to win the game. Calling on the same kicker who missed last year's clutch field goal, Tucker, the Ravens held their breath in anticipation.

He made it.

- The Ravens are now set to play the mighty Patriots in the Championship game, the game that decides who goes to the Super Bowl, and who goes home. Maybe before you go to sleep tonight, you'll look up at the night sky, and say, 'I hope the Ravens become Super Bowl Champions.'

....I take my football very seriously.