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...Hitting Herschel, nailing a 45-yard field goal in five inches of snow to send a playoff game into overtime, ending Super Bowl XXXVI two weeks later with 48-yard game-winner as time expired - he?s not jumping over cars and rivers on a rocket-powered motorcycle, but like his third cousin, Evel Knievel, Adam Vinatieri doesn?t melt under fire. Despite a sub-par regular season, when he converted a career-low 73.5% of his field goal tries, Vinatieri has kept a clutch foot in the playoffs. He hit a 46-yard knuckleball in the Arctic cold...
...think guys are rejuvenated and re-energized to come back to the rink and play some games,” said captain Kenny Smith. “I think it’s really going to help our playoff...
...Since people get queasy at the notion of a 7-5 non-BCS conference winner taking up a spot in the playoff field, we’ll establish a rule that a team must either be in the BCS top 25 or have less than four losses to qualify...
...concordance with those views, I present my 12-team playoff. Most years, two at-large teams and six conference winners will be seeded fifth through 12th, and take part in the first round of the playoffs. These games will be played during the second Saturday of December at rotating bowl sites, which will host their traditional bowl match-ups later in the month...
...only way to distinguish between teams that are equal on paper is to let them battle it out on the field. The BCS is a mistake and a playoff is the answer. But don’t look for the BCS representatives to pay this argument much heed—they’re too busy mortgaging the game to the highest bidder...