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| Photos show Patriots QB Tom Brady without walking boot on right foot |
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01/23/2008 |
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| or a noticeable limp in New York on Tuesday. The previous day, video and photos showed him wearing the boot as he followed his girlfriend, model Gisele Bundchen, into her Manhattan residence. Brady left Foxborough after Sunday's 21-12 win over the San Diego Chargers and wasn't due back until Thursday after coach Bill Belichick gave his players three days off. Brady, this season's NFL MVP, has a high ankle sprain that is ``mild,'' according to the Boston Herald. The Boston Globe characterized it as a ``minor'' |
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| Hall of Famer James Lofton fired as Chargers wide receivers coach |
NFL Football |
01/22/2008 |
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SAN DIEGO (AP) -Hall of Famer James Lofton was fired as the San Diego Chargers' wide receivers coach on Tuesday, a surprising move considering the way Chris Chambers and Vincent Jackson played down the stretch. ``I was stunned by the news,'' Lofton said several hours after he was given word by coach Norv Turner. ``I wasn't really given a concrete explanation, just that they wanted to go in a different direction,'' Lofton said. ``I really don't know. Like I said, I was stunned, surprised. I didn't see it co |
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| Giants-Packers draws highest conference championship rating since '97 |
NFL Football |
01/22/2008 |
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| nts' 23-20 overtime win over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night attracted the highest rating for a conference championship since Green Bay-Carolina earned a 30.1/58 in 1997. The undefeated New England Patriots' 21-12 win over the heavy underdog San Diego Chargers drew a 25.7/46 on CBS. That was up 2 percent from the early game last year, the Chicago-New Orleans NFC championship that attracted a 25.1/45. Combined, the two games averaged 49.7 million viewers, the most for a conference championship weekend in |
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| Chargers' Rivers Shows His Mettle |
NFL Football |
01/22/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - Unless you are a fan of the San Diego Chargers, you are probably not the biggest fan of quarterback Philip Rivers. The fourth-year pro has made a habit of rubbing people the wrong way. There's the jawing with fans, and the more boisterous jawing with inebriated fans. There's the flamboyant gesticulation every time an official's flag falls in favor of the opposing team. There's the emotional outbursts when walking off the field after burning a timeout. There's the constant bickering with oppone |
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| Patriots one game from 19-0 |
NFL Football |
01/22/2008 |
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| eo posted on TMZ.com, Brady can be seen limping to the door of girlfriend Gisele Bundchen's New York City townhouse. Maybe the Patriots won't need him. They didn't need much from him Sunday, by Tom Brady standards at least, in a 21-12 victory of the San Diego Chargers that sent the Patriots to their fourth Super Bowl in seven years, where they will face the New York Giants. Brady, who said in a radio appearance Monday that he'd "have to be on a stretcher" to miss the Super Bowl, threw three interceptions in the A |
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| New York Giants' overtime victory a hit on television |
NFL Football |
01/21/2008 |
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| championship, which was in the early time slot. Sunday's Giants game received the highest rating for any television broadcast since the Indianapolis Colts' 29-17 win over the Bears in last year's Super Bowl. New England's 21-12 victory over the San Diego Chargers in the AFC championship received a 27.4/48, down 2 percent from the 28.1/40 for Patriots' 38-34 loss to Indianapolis in the late time slot last year. The rating is the percentage of television households in the nation viewing a telecast, and the s |
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| Too little L.T. plus Rivers' INTs end Chargers' season |
NFL Football |
01/21/2008 |
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -LaDainian Tomlinson couldn't play through his pain. Philip Rivers played through his, but was intercepted twice. Throw it all together, and the San Diego Chargers failed to find the end zone in the AFC championship game, losing 21-12 to the perfect New England Patriots. ``It's unfortunate we didn't come through today,'' Rivers said. ``It's probably a lot closer than everybody expected. Not necessarily us; we expected to win.'' While the Patriots move on to their fourth Super Bow |
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| With Brady struggling, Patriots running game eats up the yards |
NFL Football |
01/21/2008 |
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) -The wind was bad enough that the San Diego Chargers assigned a defensive back to hold the ball in place on kickoffs. Nothing they didn't expect in January in New England? ``It was cold out there, but we knew that before we went out there,'' linebacker Shawne Merriman said. ``We had to play through it, and I think we handled it well.'' The temperature of 23 degrees was the lowest of the three AFC championship games played in Foxborough. The lowest temperature for any Patriots game |
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| Playoff Overtimes |
NFL Football |
01/21/2008 |
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| een Bay 20 (NFC Championship), 12:25. Jan. 14, 2006-Chicago Bears 27, Seattle Seahawks 24 (NFC Divisional Playoffs), 10:02. Jan. 15, 2005-Pittsburgh Steelers 20, New York Jets 17 (AFC Divisional Playoffs), 11:04. Jan. 8, 2005-New York Jets 20, San Diego Chargers 17 (AFC Wild Card), 14:55. Jan. 11, 2004-Philadelphia Eagles 20, Green Bay Packers 17 (NFC Divisional Playoffs), 4:48. Jan. 10, 2004-Carolina Panthers 29, St. Louis Rams 23 (NFC Divisional Playoffs), 15:10. Jan. 4, 2004-Green Bay Packers 33, S |
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| Giants, freezing fans at Lambeau Field watch overtime thriller |
NFL Football |
01/20/2008 |
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| irrelevant. ``I would've played in negative 50 to play in (the Super Bowl) and that's what we did,'' Jacobs said. By comparison, it was 23 degrees in North Pole, Alaska, and at kickoff in the New England Patriots' 21-12 victory over the visiting San Diego Chargers in the AFC championship game in Foxborough, Mass. Though warmer than Green Bay, it was the lowest temperature for any of the three championship games played in Foxborough over the years. The wind chill was 9. But the Packers discounted the weather |
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