Owner wants Super Bowl for everybody in the organziation
When people talk about wishing for a Super Bowl victory for the Baltimore Ravens, the first name that comes to mind is Lamar Jackson, and there’s good reason. As the franchise quarterback, he’s typically the first name that comes to mind for most. He also has the incredible story to go with it, being doubted in the draft, asked to switch positions, the constant ridicule he’s received and being told he’s not ‘quarterbacky’ enough by plenty of different analysts. But in a recent interview with owner Steve Bisciotti and head coach John Harbaugh, Bisciotti says he doesn’t just think about Jackson.
“I don’t look at Lamar singularly,” Bisciotti said to Garrett Downing after Harbaugh mentioned him and the team wanting to win it for Jackson. “I want it for Ronnie Stanley. I want it for Marlon Humphrey.”
Bisciotti goes on to say it doesn’t stop with just Jackson and that when he watches the team he owns, Jackson doesn’t stand out as a person he’s rooting for, he’s rooting for the entire organization and team.
“We’ve been doing this forever,” Bisciotti said. “I want it for Eric DeCosta. Has he technically won a Super Bowl, as a GM? No. So I want that. Ozzie [Newsome, former GM] got a couple of them. I want Eric to get that.”
Harbaugh then takes it a step further also saying, “We want it for the fans too”. He talks about remembering what it was like for the fans in 2013 when the Ravens won it for the 2012 season, “I want to see the fans dancing in the street like they were in 2013, like they were in 2000.”
While Jackson’s story in memorable as a multi-MVP winner and a likely future Hall of Famer and is typically the biggest story for the Ravens in the media, it’s nice to hear other in the organization recognize others on the team and in the building who have been there even longer than Jackson who deserves a ring as well.