This couple had a lot riding on the Baltimore Ravens 12 year wait to get back to the super Bowl

Forget the oddsmakers, the players or even the team's owners. Perhaps no one had more riding on the Baltimore Ravens making it to this year's Super Bowl than Laura "Daisy" Sudano and Jim Pellegrini.

Sudano, 44, and Pellegrini, 42, both Baltimore natives, have had a lot riding on the Ravens having a winning season for the past 12 years.

That was when the now-engaged couple had their first date, at a party for Super Bowl XXXV, in 2001, when the Ravens beat the New York Giants. After staying together, Sudano and Pellegrini always got the inevitable question from family and friends: When are you going to get married?

Real life "Blind Side" to culminate in the Super Bowl for these two players who have overcome tough odds to reach football's world stage...

Patrick Willis, the San Francisco 49ers superstar linebacker, rose from from a life of poverty and into the ranks of great NFL players.

Michael Oher, starting offensive tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, literally lived out the life depicted in the movie ‘The Blind Side’.

After spending years as teammates together at Ole Miss, these two young men will face off against one another in Super Bowl XLVII. ABC World News interviewed each of them, both at Super Bowl XLVII Media Day and in Willis’ home town.

ABC also spoke to their adoptive mothers, to get a glimpse into the reactions of these women’s friends, family and neighbors.