OWINGS MILLS, Md. -- Emotional Baltimore Ravens veteran wide receiver Derrick Mason lost his temper on the sideline during the fourth quarter of a 20-17 overtime win over the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Mason was clearly angry when Flacco quarterback Joe Flacco threw it to tight end Todd Heap incomplete instead of him in the end zone.

Mason threw his helmet and got into an animated, brief conversation with Ravens coach John Harbaugh.

“They were playing man-to-man,” Mason said. “I just wanted an opportunity to win the game. As a competitor, you just want to influence the game somehow. That’s all it was about. After we got back to the sideline and then got back out there, it was over and done with.”

Mason wound up catching seven passes for 62 yards and a touchdown.

From Harbaugh and Mason's standpoint, there were no hard feelings.

“That’s kind of what we’re about, everything’s out there,” Harbaugh said. “We’re not one of these teams that are going to try to sugarcoat anything with each other. We’re emotional, all of us, and it’s an emotional game.

“We’re the same way in practice, Derrick and the coaches and the players and all of us, because to me that’s what’s real. We don’t shy away or back down from real raw emotion. So we move on, we love each other and we’ve got a game to win together next week.”

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