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...team suffers a crushing loss. When my soccer team, Arsenal, lost in the last minute of extra time in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final in 1995, my fat, salty tears fell on my red team shirt. When the Jets lost to Denver in the 1999 AFC Championship, I furiously tore off my itchy, ill-fitting Curtis Martin jersey. When those same damn Yankees beat the Mets, a team my family has followed since they were founded, 4-1 in the Subway Series my first year, I watched every game—in my new black Mets...
...looking people this side of the Star Wars Cantina. This is the first playoff game for the Raiders since last January in New England, when the nation learned what a tuck play was, and Adam Vinatieri booted one of the most improbable kicks in NFL history. Having garnered the AFC's No. 1 seed, the Silver & Black's reward is a date with perhaps the NFL hottest team, the Jets, winners of eight of their last 10, including last week's destruction of the Colts. Oakland, however, handed New York one of those losses, 26-20, on a Monday night...
...Factors: Pennington is a cool customer, but no QB is going to fare well with Colts rookie DE Dwight Freeney in his face. The 11th overall pick out of Syracuse finished second in the AFC with 13.0 sacks and forced nine fumbles...
...Once considered the Marshall Faulk of the AFC, Colts RB Edgerrin James has been nagged by injuries this year before showing signs of life last week against Jacksonville. If he returns to his old form, the Colts are a much better team...
...weekend matches more familiar foes than this one. This game that will be the 102nd meeting between the Browns and Steelers but only the second time they've met in the playoffs (1/7/95: Pitt. 29, Cle. 9, at Pitt.). The Steelers won both regular-season meetings between these AFC North squads by only three points, yet they're the biggest favorites of the first round, at 7 1/2 points. Browns QB Kelly Holcomb fills in for the injured Tim Couch in the franchise's first playoff appearance since returning to the NFL in 1999. He performed admirably (111.0 rating...