The Baltimore Ravens will host the first conference championship game in Baltimore since 1971 after Lamar Jackson had four touchdowns, two rushing and two throwing, in a 34-10 win over the Houston Texans. At one point, the game was tied at 10, but Baltimore won with 24 unanswered points.
After earning a playoff bye, emotions ran high in Baltimore’s locker room, and it was Jackson’s second playoff win. Ravens head coach John Harbaugh opened his postgame press conference by reading a Bible verse. Harbaugh said, via Outkick NFL Insider Armando Salguero, reciting 1 Chronicles, “Greatness, power, glory, victory, and honor belongs to you. The kingdom belongs to you, Lord.”
Harbaugh’s quote comes one week after C.J. Stroud, the quarterback Harbaugh’s Ravens beat, gave “all glory to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” after the Texans’ playoff win over the Cleveland Browns. Stroud’s comments were edited out of an X post, formerly Twitter, from the official account of NBC’s “Sunday Night Football.” Former Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, Salguero’s cohost on Outkick’s podcast, “The Five,” criticized NBC for the move.
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He said, “It’s very lame. Players always express that as well, and to have that cut out is truly disrespectful. There are a lot of people out there who are Christians and believe in Jesus, and those who don’t believe in Jesus still they 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 in at this point.”
Harbaugh quoted Bible scripture a day after his brother, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh, spoke at the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Jim also attended the Ravens’ game Saturday. The Ravens next host the Chiefs in the AFC Championship game.