Word: 49ers
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...Patriots were not the best team this season. The Rams, the Packers, the 49ers and maybe even the Raiders, on a normal day, were better than the Pats. But the Patriots caught the Rams when St. Louis was struggling. Warner had a miserable game against Philadelphia in the NFC Championship and stumbled into the Super Bowl. The Patriots were riding a long winning streak filled with lucky breaks (the Brady fumble) and poor performances by the opposition (can you say Kordell Stewart?). They played a good game against one good team and won a Super Bowl...
...THROWER, 71, the first African-American quarterback in the National Football League; of a heart attack; in New Kensington, Pa. Thrower played his first and last NFL game for the Chicago Bears in 1953, when he relieved the starting QB in a 35-28 loss against the San Francisco 49ers...
...much stake into what a pool of such paranoid people think, seek help immediately.) The Rams are favored Sunday by 14 1/2 points, which is the third-highest spread in Super Bowl history. The largest spread ever was 19 points, which the favored 49ers covered in their 49-26 Super Bowl XXIX win over the Chargers. Efforts to officially rename that game as The Greatest Buzzkill of All Time have been rejected by the NFL. Back in Super Bowl III, the underdog Jets not only covered the second-largest spread in Super Bowl history (18 points against the Colts), they...
That patient philosophy--and the magic of big playmaking--is paying off. In consecutive heart-stopping midseason games that made believers out of cynics, the Bears came back from deficits of 15 points to defeat the 49ers and 14 points to best the Browns--both in overtime, both on interceptions by safety Mark Brown. "The way we won those was an eye-opener for the whole team," says cornerback R.W. McQuarters. "It was proof we could set our sights high." In the locker room, those big victories combined with the team's underdog status to keep spirits afloat. Says quarterback...
Johnson is now the starting tight-end with the San Francisco 49ers...