Baltimore is hosting its first conference championship game since 1971.
Lamar Jackson scored four touchdowns—two passing and two rushing—in a 34-10 win against the Houston Texans on Saturday. Baltimore scored 24 straight after tying at 10.
Baltimore’s locker room was emotional after receiving a postseason bye, and Jackson won his second playoff game.
Ravens coach John Harbaugh recited a Bible passage to start his postgame news conference.
“Greatness, power, glory, victory, and honor belong to you, because everything in heaven and on earth belongs to you. The kingdom belongs to you, Lord,”Harbaugh quoted 1 Chronicles via OutKick NFL source Armando Salguero.
After the Texans’ playoff triumph against the Cleveland Browns, quarterback C.J. Stroud dedicated “all glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” a week earlier.
The NBC “Sunday Night Football.” official account altered Stroud’s comments from an X, previously Twitter, post. Salguero’s Outkick podcast cohost, “The Five,” and former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb slammed NBC for the move.
“It’s very lame. Players always express that as well, and to have that cut out is truly… it’s disrespectful,” he said. “There are a lot of people out there who are Christians and believe in Jesus, and those who don’t believe in Jesus still don’t feel like that’s disrespectful to them.
“For NBC to do this, they really have to go back and evaluate themselves. They have to get this thing corrected because that’s definitely not the direction it needs to be going at this point.”
Harbaugh read Scripture a day after his brother, Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, spoke at the March for Life in D.C. On Saturday, Jim attended the Ravens game.