The 2001 Super Bowl saw the Baltimore Ravens win the coveted prize for the first time in history, beating the New York Giants 34-7.

Sisters Jill Lyn and Jenna Euto — lifelong Denver Broncos fans — were rooting for the Ravens that year. “I don’t think we were really fans of [the] Ravens,” Jenna texted Dateline. “We just never liked any NY team.”

Jenna, 17 at the time, and their mother, Joanne Browning, were living together in Syracuse, New York, while 18-year-old Jill lived in a studio apartment a few miles away. “She was, like, fiercely — fiercely independent,” Jenna said of her older sister. “So she spent a lot of time working and just trying to make enough money that she could get out on her own.”

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