By Ron Borges
GLENDALE, AZ. – Nobody’s perfect, except the 1972 Miami Dolphins.
That is the sad reality the New England Patriots woke up to this morning, hours after being upset by the far from perfect New York Giants, 17-14, in Super Bowl XLII. The Perfect Patriots had been beaten. Hold up that parade. Cancel that book […]

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By Ron Borges
GLENDALE, AZ. – On Sunday Steve and Zak DeOssie will join an exclusive club within an exclusive club. They will be among the small percentage of NFL players ever to have reached the Super bowl but they will be something far rarer than that.
They will be one of nine father-and-son teams to have […]

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By Ron Borges
The formula for beating the unbeatable Patriots is a lot easier to come by than to execute. You play to win or you prepare to lose.
Those are the simple options facing Tom Coughlin and his New York Giants Sunday night when they try to upset the unbeaten Patriots in Super Bowl XLII. If […]

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By Ron Borges
If the long shot Giants find a way to upset the peerless Patriots Sunday night in Super Bowl XLII, New Yorkers will immediately insist it’s the biggest upset since David dropped Goliath with a well placed stone to the noggin. New Yorkers would be wrong, not that that’s anything new.
They will talk about […]

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By Ron Borges
If consistency is a key to playoff success no one was more consistent than the Pick 6 picks last weekend, which were 0-for-4.
This is typical of the kind of weekend it was. Take the Seahawks plus 8 and Seattle turns two early turnovers into touchdowns. What we had at that point was the […]

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By Ron Borges
You have to hand it to the Herald and to Patriot fans.
The Herald came up with this idea of naming the all-time greatest Patriot player by on-line balloting and turned it into an interesting bracketing tournament that has now advanced through four rounds and left, like the NFL playoffs, only eight men standing.
Whoever […]

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By Ron Borges
Most people in football feel this is the most enjoyable weekend of the year. Not as much hype as Super Bowl weekend but two days filled with usually highly competitive and always fiercely contested match-ups between the best teams left standing in the NFL.
The detritus from wildcard weekend has been cleared away and […]

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By Ron Borges
Usually this time of year somebody surprises. This first playoff weekend will be no different but the surprises may be more surprising than usual.
For the first time in recent memory, the Pittsburgh Steelers are underdogs at home in a playoff game, the odds makers having made the Jacksonville Jaguars three point favorites. […]

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By Ron Borges
Patriots nose tackle Vince Wilfork is a good fellow, one of the best young nose tackles in the game and a valuable part of New England’s undefeated season. He is also a guy who needs to get a grip on his emotions and it will take more than the $15,000 he was fined […]

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We got a late start on the regular season but quickly slipped into mid-season form, falling behind the bookmakers in a hurry and never catching up. But, as coach Belichick would put it, this is a new season and everyone is 0-0.
Wild-card weekend is always a difficult one to project however because of injuries and […]

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