AFC Powers Meet in NFL's Season Opener
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FOXBORO, Mass. - Forget last season's win over Indianapolis in the AFC championship game...
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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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The Ravens opened the season with Super Bowl aspirations and have a tough schedule ahead. Nonetheless, the team is still in the hunt for an AFC North title.
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The Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots will meet in the Super Bowl. The Patriots topped the Pittsburgh Steelers, owners of the NFL's best record at 15-1, to win the AFC championship 41-27 last night. Earlier in the day, the Eagles beat the Atlanta Falcons 27-10 for the NFC title.
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Defending Super Bowl champions New  England Patriots hope to ride their bruising defense to another  title game when they face the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC  championship in snowy Pittsburgh on Sunday.
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Last meeting | It&#39;s the first meeting since the Browns rejoined NFL as expansion team in 1999. Players to watch | Jeff Garcia showed he still knows how to win, engineering an upset of the Ravens last week.
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FOXBOROUGH -- The last two season openers had national sizzle, with the Patriots unveiling Super Bowl championship banners as the featured team on the NFL's kickoff weekend. The atmosphere will be a bit different today when the Patriots begin their 47th season against the Buffalo Bills at Gillette Stadium, but there's one story line sure to attract attention.
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The New England Patriots began their  quest for successive Super Bowl titles with a tight 27-24 win  over the Indianapolis Colts in the opening game of the NFL  season in Foxboro Thursday.
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HONOLULU, Hawaii (Sports Network) - The best that the NFL  has to offer will take the field at Aloha Stadium on Sunday  night, as the AFC and NFC square off in the 2005 Pro Bowl.
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The Chiefs and Raiders are one of the NFLâs most bitter of rivals. On Saturday they will be playing their 89th meeting. Kansas City leads the all-time series 44-42-2.
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San Diego likes the AFC's new championship model. At least this year.
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When the Colts kick off the NFL season Thursday night at New England, he expects the bar to be higher, the pressure more intense, the spotlight brighter.
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LONDON -- The NFL's first regular-season game outside North America already looks like a big hit. More than 500,000 tickets were requested by about 160,000 fans in the three days following Friday's official announcement, the NFL said Wednesday.
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Daunte Culpepper and Ben Roethlisberger, who entered training camp as question marks because of injuries, will start the exhibition openers for their teams.
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When Tom Brady started the AFC championship game here three years ago, he was a second-year quarterback who had barely gotten on the field as a rookie. So he knows what Ben Roethlisberger faces when the Pittsburgh Steelers play the New England Patriots in Sunday's conference title game.
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From where they sit, amid 70-degree warmth and gentle Pacific breezes, there is no fear of growing cold. Instead, the Chargers have sounded reveille in advance of their 3,000-mile, coast-to-coast trip to take on the Patriots in Sunday's AFC Championship game.
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A pass interference call in the end zone wiped out a Cincinnati touchdown Thursday night, leaving the Bengals and the Baltimore Ravens scoreless at the end of the first quarter. Two defenses coming off shutouts had their way for most of the opening quarter in a game that could decide the AFC North championship.