Super Bowl dreams bid to muscle out off-season woes
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After an off-season filled with turmoil  and controversy, the NFL bids to put the spotlight back on the  field when the Super Bowl champion Indianapolis Colts kick off  the new season against the New Orleans Saints on Thursday.
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Kevin P. O'Donoghue is going to the Super Bowl. When he gets back, he'll worry about the house he mortgaged to watch his beloved Eagles. He's not alone. Some championship-deprived Philadelphians are so desperate to get down to Jacksonville for the big game that they're borrowing against their homes to pay for the tickets.
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The season isn&#39;t over, after all, for the Kansas City Chiefs, who have in recent weeks resembled the Super Bowl contender that they had hoped and planned to be all along.
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Donovan McNabb had often pictured what it would be like to go to the Super Bowl. In Sunday's bitter cold, his vision came to life.
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Can the &quot;Iggles&quot; finally get to the Super Bowl after three consecutive losses in the NFC championship game? If this regular season were a book, the first 16 chapters would be a foreword.
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The New England Patriots know beating the New York Giants in Sunday's Super Bowl means more than a perfect 19-0 season -- it could be the defining moment of their careers.
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The NFL season has primarily been an exercise in watching the Patriots and Steelers dismantle their opposition on a weekly basis, and then trying to predict which one will blink first and lose home field for a possible playoff game.
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The Super Bowl champs ended their exhibition season with a three-game losing streak and a 31-0 setback. Hey, at least they should be rested for their regular-season opener.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana  - The road to the Super Bowl may have become a little bumpier for the San Diego Chargers, who will limp into Foxborough next weekend to wrestle one of the greatest teams in NFL history for a ticket to Phoenix.
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As Saturday nightâs game against the Patriots showed, the Giantsâ inability to finish big games is a big issue as the playoffs arrive.
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Perfection is the impossible dream in the NFL. No matter how hard you try, there will be some weeks when things don&#39;t go as planned.
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Going .500 gets fans upset, coaches in trouble and players released &#151; except in this year's NFC, where a break-even mark is looking playoff-worthy. And a winning record makes you a Super Bowl contender.
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The New England Patriots know beating  the New York Giants in Sunday's Super Bowl means more than a  perfect 19-0 season -- it could be the defining moment of their  careers.
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The New England Patriots will face one more challenge in their bid for a perfect season: a Super Bowl meeting with the surprising New York Giants.
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They have dispatched the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles to stake a claim as the NFL&#39;s top team. Now the Pittsburgh Steelers could become the team everybody wants to beat.
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This might be remembered as the year the Love Boat docked at the Super Bowl. The NFL took a risk by bringing the NFL title game to Jacksonville, a city of 1.2 million that doesn't have enough hotel rooms to cram in all the fans who flock to the game.
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PHILADELPHIA - Some long-suffering Eagles fans hoping for a trip to the Super Bowl have been dreading that &quot;something could still happen&quot; to derail the NFC&#39;s steaming locomotive.