<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> ← XXXIV </Li> <Li> Super Bowl </Li> <Li> XXXVI → </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> ← XXXIV </Li> <Li> Super Bowl </Li> <Li> XXXVI → </Li> </Ul> <P> Super Bowl XXXV was an American football game between the American Football Conference (AFC) champion Baltimore Ravens and the National Football Conference (NFC) champion New York Giants to decide the National Football League (NFL) champion for the 2000 season . The Ravens defeated the Giants by the score of 34--7, tied for the seventh largest Super Bowl margin of victory with Super Bowl XXXVII . The game was played on January 28, 2001 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida . </P> <P> The Ravens, who posted a 12--4 regular season record, became the third wild card team to win the Super Bowl and the second in four years . Also, the city of Baltimore had its first Super Bowl title since the Baltimore Colts' triumph thirty years prior and became the first city to win major professional football championships with four different franchises, the others being the Colts, the 1985 Baltimore Stars of the United States Football League and the 1995 Baltimore Stallions of the Canadian Football League . The Giants entered the game seeking to go 3--0 in Super Bowls after also finishing the regular season with a 12--4 record . The game was the first (and, so far, only) Super Bowl contested by teams representing cities that had contested a previous Super Bowl with two different franchises (specifically, Super Bowl III between the Colts and the New York Jets). </P>

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