Road to the NFL Began On Streets of Southeast
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Byron Leftwich, who grew up a fervent Redskins fan while playing football in the streets of Southeast D.C., will lead the Jaguars into FedEx Field on Sunday.
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Ironically it was the first regular season game for the Carolina Panthers that not only began the history of the franchise, but also saw the beginning of a rivalry that goes on to this day.
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For linebacker Jonathan Vilma, the first order of business when he took the field for his initial start at the University of Miami was simple.
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Lost amid the hype of the NFL's  long-awaited return to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans on Monday  night is the battle for supremacy in the NFC South.
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Initial impressions from the NFL's  first regular season game in London have been very positive and  the league is looking to stage more games in the United  Kingdom, Germany, Canada and Mexico.
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TAMPA - First stop, Tampa. Next stop, Texas. As long as it's on the road, the New York Giants can't complain.
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Hey rook, welcome to the Pro Bowl. Now get me a chaise lounge. Or some shrimp. Or a mai tai. It's quite an achievement for an NFL rookie to get to the league's all-star game. After the veterans commend them for such strong debuts, though, the orders begin.
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Donât put a fork in the Green Bay Packers yet. The team that began the season by whipping the Carolina Panthers on the road resurfaced Sunday at Ford Field and did the same to the Detroit Lions.
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If Steve Spurrier is going to South Carolina, itâs great news for NFL fans, who wonât have to worry about him showing up on their teamâs sideline.
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Lambeau Field is now a desired destination, as Chris Brown and the Titans were the latest to learn. Brown rushed for 148 yards and two long touchdowns
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They are 22 years old, rookies barely out of their junior years at Miami and Louisiana State, but one is already starting for the defending Super Bowl champions, while the other is trying to break through the group of young defensive ends in front of him.
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Despite their disappointing loss to the Colts, the upstart Texans appear to be gaining ground on their American Football Conference South rival.
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The trip to San Diego was a return to where and when Joe Namath and the Jets of the old American Football League began to emerge as the Super Bowl III champions.
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The Christian Science Monitor - The NFL abroad. That's the story in the land of London fog on Sunday, when the Miami Dolphins host the New York Giants at Wembley Stadium, in the first NFL regular season game ever played outside the Americas. When the tickets went on sale last February, some 88,000 were sold in 72 hours.
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If you want to know where all this really began, everything that brought Eli Manning and the Giants to this day and this start for him against the Falcons, you go back to a Saturday night at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium at Ole Miss two years ago, a cold
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The minute Daunte Culpepper arrived at the Metrodome, it was obvious his timing was off. It was about 90 minutes before kickoff -- or about 30 minutes Culpepper was running behind
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Torry Holt of the St. Louis Rams became the first player in NFL history with five straight 1,300-yard seasons when he caught a 44-yard touchdown pass near the end of the first half against the New York Jets on Sunday.