Brendan O'Brien: How America’s Game points the way for GAA

This was a game between two of the sport’s best. It stood to reason that everyone wanted to see it happen.

Time was just about up last Sunday when Justin Tucker sent a 49-yard field goal sailing through the uprights at M&T Bank Stadium to give the Baltimore Ravens a 20-17 win over the San Francisco 49ers. It was a thrilling end to a game that had lived up to its hefty pre-match billing of two teams that could yet have to do it all over again in the Super Bowl come the new year.

“That’s a really damn good football team,” said the 49ers’ right guard Mike Person afterwards. “And I think we’re a really damn good football team as well. Those are the games you play for to see how you stack up against everybody.”