Ravens Stun Cowboys With Last-Second Field Goal in NFL's Rio de Janeiro Debut

The Baltimore Ravens beat the Dallas Cowboys 34-31 on a 56-yard field goal as time expired Sunday, capping the NFL's first regular-season game in Rio de Janeiro with one of the wildest finishes of the young season.

Playing before an announced crowd of 72,792 at the Maracanã, the storied stadium that hosted the 2014 World Cup final and the 2016 Olympics, the two 1-1 teams traded the lead repeatedly in the fourth quarter. Dallas appeared to have forced overtime when kicker Brandon Aubrey made a 23-yard field goal to tie the score at 31 with seven seconds remaining. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson then completed a 27-yard pass to receiver Zay Flowers and, with the clock ticking down, called a timeout with one second left, setting up rookie Tyler Loop's game-winning kick, according to the official box score published by ESPN.

Jackson finished 15 of 20 for 186 yards and two touchdowns, while running back Derrick Henry added 89 rushing yards and two scores, per the Ravens' own recap of the win. Flowers caught five passes for 84 yards, including the decisive gain that put Loop in range.

League's Third Brazil Game, First in Rio

The matchup was the NFL's third regular-season game in Brazil and the first outside São Paulo, where the league staged the Green Bay Packers' win over the Philadelphia Eagles in 2024 and a Kansas City Chiefs-Los Angeles Chargers game in 2025. Moving the series to the 73,000-capacity Maracanã, one of South America's most recognizable venues, marked a deliberate step up in scale for the NFL's international push, which has also included games in London, Munich and Madrid in recent years.

For the Ravens, the win kept alive a season that began unevenly; for the Cowboys, it marked a second consecutive defeat decided in the final seconds. Coverage of the finish, including the sequence of Jackson's completion and timeout call, was also detailed in wire reporting carried by ABC News, which credited Baltimore's coaching staff for the clock management that set up Loop's attempt.

The result moved the Ravens to 2-1 through three weeks, while the Cowboys dropped to 1-2.