Background
The game marked the first Super Bowl in which both of the teams had appeared in, but not yet lost, a previous Super Bowl; the 49ers won all five of their previous Super Bowls while the Ravens won in their lone previous Super Bowl appearance in Super Bowl XXXV against the New York Giants. On winning, Baltimore became the only team in the NFL to have appeared in multiple Super Bowls without losing one; in fact, they supplanted the 49ers in this role. This was also the first Super Bowl in which both teams could trace their lineage to the All-America Football Conference (AAFC), as the Ravens are descended from the Cleveland Browns franchise, which joined the NFL along with the 49ers when the AAFC disbanded in 1949 (although the NFL itself does not consider the Ravens as being linked to the Browns).
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