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...explain how we got here. By almost all accounts, this has been the strangest NFL season on record. Before the season, you could have made a lot of money - a LOT of money - by betting that the Rams would finish at 7-9. You would have been classified as clinically insane if you predicted that Tommy Maddox would be starting in the playoffs while Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady watched on TV. And forget about the odds of only one of the league's top-10 rushers (the Giants' Tiki Barber) advancing to the postseason...
...INDIANPOLIS (10-6) at N.Y. JETS (9-7), 4:30 p.m. ET How crazy was the last week of the NFL's regular season? At the start of their 4 p.m. ET home game against the Packers, the Jets weren't sure a win would even get them into the playoffs. Three hours later, they were AFC East champs with a postseason home game. And with Gang Green playing its best ball the only time it matters - at the end - it's been hard to find a free seat on the bandwagon. Colts QB Peyton Manning is going...
...incomparable Brett Favre, who finished second in the MVP voting this week in a close race with Raiders QB Rich Gannon. But while all the attention is on the quarterback position, don't discount the disruptive nature of both defenses. The Falcons amassed 47 sacks (4th most in NFL) and finished with a +12 takeaway ratio. The Packers led the league with 45 takeaways...
...National Football League was scrumming its way forward a few yards at a time, Unitas threw precise, elegant passes that proved how beautiful the game could be. Unitas' greatest triumph was marching the Colts to a sudden-death victory over the New York Giants in the 1958 NFL championship game. Just before handing off for the winning touchdown, Unitas completed a long sideline pass to his favorite target, Raymond Berry. "Wasn't that pass kind of dangerous?" Unitas was asked. He replied, "Nothing's dangerous if you know what you're doing." --By Josh Tyrangiel...
...There’s something fabulous about people getting so excited about poetry,” Engler said. “By the size of the crowd, you would think we were bringing a major NFL player here...