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Great teams make great playoff runs a habit, not a diversion. Wayne Gretzky's Edmonton Oilers, Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls, Joe Montana's San Francisco 49ers, Cy Youngs' Atlanta Braves...Sean McCann's Harvard Crimson. They won their playoff games and their pieces of silverware because they were legitimately good teams, occasional postseason upsets notwithstanding (e.g. Oilers vs. Flames...
...Packarena. The waiting list for season tickets is 30,000 names long; only the top five made the cut last year. On Jan. 25 the Packers will sell 25,000 specially designed boxes of "Frozen Tundra," pulled up from Lambeau after the Mud Bowl victory over the 49ers on Jan. 4, for $10 apiece. In typical Packers fashion, all proceeds will go to charity...
...hunt. "It's a new order in the NFL," said Panthers linebacker Kevin Greene, "and I'm tickled to death about it." No matter how next week's matchups turn out, this year's Super Bowl will be the first since 1991 without either the Cowboys or the 49ers on the field. Playing in their first-ever playoff game, the NFC West-champion Panthers (13-4) were three-point underdogs against the Cowboys, but made it a perfect nine-for-nine at Ericsson Stadium. Michael Irvin, the Cowboys' troubled star and go-to receiver, got a game's worth...
...owner Jerry Richardson and the zealotry of Carolina fans, eager to be considered big time. The Panthers, in fact, have won more games in their two years than the New York Jets have in their past three. After Carolina's 30-24 victory over the favored San Francisco 49ers on Dec. 8, Collins, who threw for 327 yds. and three touchdowns, said, "We just decided we'd come out and make a statement." The statement for this expansion team is that the future...
...have. San Francisco Mayor WILLIE BROWN, famous for his ability to excite the media, probably thought he was just mouthing-off playfully when he told reporters from Paris that he was hoping to find French people to invest in a new quarterback because ELVIS GRBAC, a reserve for the 49ers who threw two interceptions in a loss to the Dallas Cowboys, was "an embarrassment to humankind." What he didn't know was that Grbac had said he was distracted during the game by worry over his son, who had recently undergone surgery for spina bifida. Brown apologized the following...