Super Bowl: Why the AFC Rules
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As Super Bowls go, the Colts title was pretty predictable. And so, already, is next year's. Just go with the AFC champ.
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TIME takes a look at the real reason we all watch the Super Bowl
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The AFC playoff race got even clearer, while things are even more muddled in the NFC.
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The great thing about football in America is that you never know when all hell is going to break loose. When two teams are going to detonate for 105 points, 1,202 yards of offense
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In the NFL, it used to be the object of the game was to get into the end zone. Now, the object of the game is to get into the end zone and act like a fool.
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Strange how things evolve. The New England Patriots are in the midst of one of the great runs in NFL history. They are on the brink of dynasty status and have totally spoiled loyal fans who expect nothing less than another Super Bowl victory.
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Sometimes ratings just don't make sense. For example, why would the Patriots' local numbers increase by 18 percent this season? You'd expect that after two Super Bowl championships in three years, the franchise's fan base would be large, but the audience would be relatively stable.
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WE CALL FOOTBALL a game. But Super Bowl Sunday reminds us that the National Football League is big business. A minute of advertising time goes for more than $4 million. Winning the game means big dollars and enormously lucrative opportunities for coaches and players.
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When the NFL decided to enforce a long-standing rule preventing contact with receivers 5 yards beyond the line of scrimmage, coaches and analysts predicted offensive statistics would explode.
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Picked-up pieces while waiting for the AFC Championship game . . . Please tell me you were rooting for the Colts. Wouldn't this 19-0 ride be more satisfying with a butt-kicking of Indy at the Razor? Wouldn't that be like beating Derek Jeter and Friends en route to the 2004 World Series win? Wouldn't that be like the old Larry ...
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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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CHARLOTTE -- So often in today&#39;s rich-get-richer corporate climate of the NFL, everybody seems to get along just swimmingly. The league&#39;s management and the players union have to endure charges of being entirely
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By Matt Tullis and Dennis M . Mahon, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Feb. 3--The National Football League told an Indianapolis church: Thou  shalt not allow thy congregation to watch the Super Bowl on a projection  television.
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Attempts to find hidden meaning in the Super Bowl are doomed to futility. The game has no vast social significance. The Super Bowl is just a big, overdone party.
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FOXBOROUGH -- This is the Super Bowl. Forget about that NFC-AFC hypefest with the roman numeral and the hideous halftime show in yahoo Jacksonville three weeks from today. That's merely going to be a coronation of the AFC champion.
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FOXBOROUGH -- Does everyone in these here parts truly appreciate what's going on here? I mean, if football is your game, do you understand that you have hit the lottery? Stop worrying about whether the Patriots will win a third Super Bowl on the evening of Feb. 6, 2005. There are too many variables involved to start worrying about that. ...
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Steelers wide receiver Plaxico Burress suggests there are two sets of pass coverage rules in the NFL these days &#151; one for the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, another for the rest of the league.