On the most important business trip of his professional life, Terrell Suggs walked onto the grass field at Tulane University for the week’s first practice and quickly spotted the camera, the only one allowed anywhere near the Baltimore Ravens. If nerves were wound too tightly in the days leading up to Super Bowl XLVII, Suggs never showed it, shoving his face in the lens and providing an impromptu rap performance as his teammates got to work.
Just another day at the office for one of the most important men in a Ravens jersey. Ray Lewis might be the face of the vaunted defense, its spiritual base. Ed Reed might be its silent, stoic leader. But to find the heart — the place where the wheels never stop moving and the lips never stop flapping — you have to find Suggs’s locker.
Maybe you call him the X factor. Or maybe you call him the Wild Card. Either way, there's someone on the field who's going to be a difference maker in the Super Bowl on Sunday.
It doesn't have to be a no-name guy, although it can be. It can be a starting running back. It can be a backup quarterback. It can even be a kicker. But when all is said and done and one of the Harbaughs is raising the Lombardi Trophy, there will be someone we point to that made a tremendous difference for the winning team.
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