Earl created the Oriole way and laid the foundation for 18 consecutive winning seasons.
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Thursday, January 17, 2013
Peter King on Flacco
A kinda long article but worth a read...
It's time to make room for Flacco in upper echelon of quarterbacks
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20130117/joe-flacco/#ixzz2IHFnDmHI
Peter King>INSIDE THE NFL
It's time to make room for Flacco in upper echelon of quarterbacks
This story appears in the Jan. 21, 2013 issue of Sports Illustrated. Buy the digital version of the magazine here.
There is something to be gained from watching football at ground level, especially from the end zone behind the offense as a play unfolds. What you see, mostly, is how difficult the game is, how fast it moves, and how singularly challenging it is to play quarterback, out of all the positions in sports. With less than a minute to go in regulation of last Saturday's AFC divisional playoff round in Denver, facing third-and-three at his own 30 yard line with no timeouts left, and trailing the Broncos 35--28, Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco picked himself up following a seven-yard scramble and listened to the play call from offensive coordinator Jim Caldwell. "Scat Right 99," Caldwell said.
Four verticals, Flacco thought. Four receivers -- two right, two left -- running go routes, with Ray Rice trolling underneath as the safety valve out of the backfield. Not much time to think. Flacco knew that Rice would be open; he's always open. But he also knew he had reached the moment of truth in Baltimore's season, and it was not a time to think about safety valves. He was thinking, I hope one of my guys gets one step ahead of one of their corners.
In the seconds before the snap, the crowd sounded frenetic in the -2° wind chill. Broncos defenders ran about, pointing and arranging coverage. No such frantic movement from Flacco, though. Standing alone at the 25, waiting for the shotgun snap, he may have been the calmest guy in the place.
"You better have guts to play the quarterback position," Flacco's backup, Tyrod Taylor, said afterward. "In the middle of everything going on out there, you better not be afraid. You'll fail."
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There has always been a calm about Flacco. Calm in the face of criticism that he's a B-minus quarterback, and in the face of -incredulity -- both inside and outside the Ravens' -organization -- over his turning down a big-money extension entering this season, the final year of his contract. Calm in the big moments of violent games against the archrival Steelers, and in practices when the mouthy Ravens defense never shuts up. That's what Baltimore's coaches and players noticed when he got to his first training camp in 2008. In one of Flacco's first padded practices, Ray Lewis crept close to the line and began shouting out distracting phony signals. The QB stood behind center, lips sealed, waiting for Lewis to shut up, as if to say, Are you quite finished? Then Flacco ran his play. "Around here," former offensive coordinator Cam Cameron said that afternoon, "the days when the defense pushes around the offense are over."
Flacco has had more than a few good moments in the subsequent five seasons. Would you be surprised to know that at 61-30 -- four wins better than Aaron Rodgers -- he's the winningest quarterback since 2008, when he entered the NFL? That he's started all 91 games, including playoffs, from the day he was drafted? That he's the only passer in NFL history to win a postseason game in each of his first five seasons? Because Flacco's numbers are pedestrian -- he's never had a 4,000-yard season or a passer rating above 94.0 -- Football Nation thinks he's just another guy. Not that he cares. Says center Matt Birk, "When you talk about Joe's accomplishments, I can promise you he's the least impressed with them."
But in a just-move-the-chains-baby league, Flacco's inarguably the best deep-ball thrower in football now. Through 18 games this year, including the playoffs, Pro Football Focus charts him as having the most completions that travel at least 20 yards past the line of scrimmage (44), the most yards on 20-plus-yard throws (1,442) and the most touchdowns on those deep strikes (15). And of his 105 long attempts this year, zero have been intercepted. Consider all that when taking in Flacco's Saturday cool.
Walking out of the tunnel before the game, Lewis tapped him on the shoulder pads.
"You're our general now," said the retiring one. "Lead us. Lead us!"
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Forty-one seconds to go. "I wasn't happy with a few of my decisions earlier in the game," says Flacco. "A couple of times, I found myself thinking, Damn Joe! What are you doing?" Now the Ravens were set in the four-across formation: Torrey Smith and Jacoby Jones as the outside speed guys; trusted veteran Anquan Boldin and tight end Dennis Pitta inside. Flacco saw Denver would be rushing three, with a linebacker to his left covering Rice and seven men deep in coverage. Three safeties sat at least 15 yards behind the line of scrimmage, fanned out for all contingencies. The free safety wide to Flacco's right, Rahim Moore, was a couple of yards shallower than the safety aligned in the middle.
Veteran center Matt Birk snapped to Flacco, and chaos ensued.
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From a vantage point 35 yards directly behind where Flacco received the snap, you could see defensive end Elvis Dumervil whiz by left tackle Bryant McKinnie. While stepping up to avoid Dumervil, Flacco stared downfield, hoping to find a receiver who'd gained an edge on his cover man. Now defensive end Robert Ayers burrowed in toward Flacco, and the quarterback wriggled away from Ayers's pressure, still scanning the secondary. From field level the mosaic was difficult to read, just as it was for the desperate QB in the busy pocket. But there was Rice, free for the first down.
Some quarterbacks put off the big shot. Some would think it better to take the sure thing -- to be within 60 yards with a fresh set of downs -- than risk it all for a prayer thrown into double coverage.
"I knew I had Ray," says Flacco. "But when you've got 40 seconds left, no timeouts, and you're 70 yards away, you can't think about the first down. You've got to think about taking shots. Five yards? That's a waste; not worth the time. When I looked down the right side, I saw Jacoby with a step on his guy, and I saw the safety [Moore] sort of leveled off, slow coming over. That was my shot."
"The safety did a bad job tracking that ball," says Taylor, Flacco's locker room neighbor in Denver on Saturday. "You could see he was out of position."
Indeed, Moore had stared too long into the backfield instead of backpedaling into position to help corner Tony Carter. By the time Flacco set to throw at the 25, he knew he had to take the deep shot, a play that would match for pressure and downfield traffic the impossible pass that Eli Manning heaved down the left side to Mario Manningham in the Super Bowl last year. There is a flash of purple uniform slightly behind the corner, and the safety is spotted a second late in moving into coverage. From field level it is a murky mess with no certainty. Just a gut feeling.
"And some luck," says Flacco. As he wound up, linebacker Von Miller, the last threat to disrupt the throw, lunged at the QB, but he got pushed off track by Birk. "I had a chance to hit his arm and swat the ball," says Miller, "but I jumped too early and misjudged it." By that time, Flacco was in full throwing motion.
Says Jones, who caught only 30 passes all year, "All I could think of was, Joe might actually throw me this ball."
"The ball's in the air, and the safety's late coming over," adds Birk, "and I'm saying, Oh, my God! It's got a chance!"
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Why wouldn't Flacco be confident as the play developed? One thing Lewis had harped on to his teammates -- he is Baltimore's unofficial speechmaker, often making more than one a week -- is that they had to treat Saturday's game against a heavily favored top seed as David versus Goliath. Don't just compete in a slow-and-steady way; come out attacking. To an outside observer it made no sense that Flacco would go after celebrated cornerback Champ Bailey -- the three-time All-Pro had given up only three completions of 20 yards or longer all season, playing man-up against the likes of A.J. Green, Vincent Jackson and Andre -Johnson -- but twice in the first half Flacco laid in perfect throws to Torrey Smith, for 59 and 32 yards, that went for touchdowns, both against Bailey. In total, the corner was targeted seven times and torched for five receptions, 128 yards and the two scores, by far his worst game of the season.
But because Peyton Manning had played passably and because the usually top-notch Baltimore special teams had allowed Denver's Trindon Holliday to return a punt and a kickoff for touchdowns, the Ravens found themselves down 35-28, with the ball at the Baltimore 23 and 69 seconds to go. On first down Flacco just missed Pitta about 18 yards up the right side, and he scrambled for seven yards on second. Now it was time, as the clock ticked down on the Ravens' season.
0:40 . . . 0:39 . . . 0:38. . . .
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Miller's lunge had forced the trajectory of Flacco's throw higher than usual, and the ball hung up in the night air. Carter slowed for no apparent reason; Jones began tracking the pass on its cross-stadium flight; and Moore sprinted into the fray. The ball landed in Jones's arms as Moore desperately and awkwardly flailed for it, having timed his leap, cruelly -- and familiarly, to any athlete -- a moment too soon. Flacco had covered 55 yards in the air, from his 25 to the Broncos' 20, and all you could see from the opposite end zone, 90 yards away, was one vivid image: Directly in the sight line between the end zone and the catch that will live in Baltimore sports history was Broncos safety Jim Leonhard, a former Raven, dropping suddenly to a crouch as if he'd been hit in the head with a two-by-four.
When Jones returned to the Baltimore sideline, after hugging everyone in sight, he looked into Flacco's eyes and screamed, "Smokin' Joe!"
it wasn't over. "I couldn't feel my face," says Birk, "but that was OK. We were still playing [overtime] -- and Joe was moving us. Do you know how hard it is to throw in negative wind chill?"
Nonetheless, Flacco had one more play to make. Third-and-13 from the Baltimore three, six minutes left in the first OT. The crowd -- -amazingly, there were just 129 no-shows among a freezing throng of 76,732, and it looked as if no one had left -- sensed the Broncos could win it with one more defensive stop, a Baltimore punt from deep in its territory, and a first down or two to get Denver into field goal range. Flacco sent Pitta up the right seam and threw a perfect high ball that Pitta caught over Leonhard. Gain of 24. Talking later, Flacco seemed as proud of that throw as the long TD. "It was big," he said, "because we were able to flip the field." Big is an understatement. After the Ravens eventually punted, Denver took over at its own seven . . . and three minutes later Manning threw his worst pass since the Tracy Porter pick in Super Bowl XLIV three years ago.
That was it. The Ravens sealed the deal on Justin Tucker's 47 yard field goal in the second minute of the sixth quarter of the fourth-longest game in NFL -history -- a four-hour, 11-minute classic. Baltimore 38, Denver 35.
"Awesome. Awesome. Awesome. Awesome," said Lewis.
The win, yes. But Flacco's January poise too. The Ravens advance to play in their second straight AFC title game at Gillette Stadium on Sunday, 364 days after the still painful first one, in which Flacco outplayed Tom Brady but lost on a dropped TD and a missed field goal. In his last three playoff games -- that one in Foxboro and the two played this month, against the Colts and the Broncos -- Flacco has thrown for 919 yards with seven touchdowns and one interception.
"Will people finally buy how good this guy is?" asks coach John Harbaugh. "I mean, we love him."
That crowd is growing.
Read More: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/nfl/news/20130117/joe-flacco/#ixzz2IHFnDmHI
Respect
Brady, Flacco two of a kind
Their games are different, but they share the most important quality of all
By Field Yates | ESPNBoston.com
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- One is widely regarded as a top -- if not the best -- quarterback of his era, while the other entered the final year of his rookie contract in 2012 without progress toward an extension.
One has a résumé that includes Super Bowl trophies and All-Pro selections, while the other seems to be perpetually fighting to earn league-wide respect.
But despite their differences, Tom Brady and Joe Flacco have something in common, something every NFL quarterback strives for: success in the postseason.
Brady has more playoff wins as a starter than any other quarterback in NFL history, while Flacco made history of his own this postseason by becoming the first quarterback to start and win a playoff game in each of his first five seasons.
Their styles might be different, but since Flacco entered the league in 2008, their postseason results are comparable.
Their teams have faced off five times total -- Brady's teams have bested Flacco's on three of those occasions (although they've split two postseason matchups) -- but the Ravens signal-caller has stood toe to toe, throwing more touchdowns than Brady (9-5) and fewer interceptions (4-7).
Those results aren't lost on Brady.
"Joe has done a great job since he came into the league," Brady said of Flacco. "I've played against him a bunch of times, and he's always played really well.
"He's obviously a great leader," he continued. "You get your team to this position, it takes a lot of guys, but they have a lot of confidence in Joe. He does a lot of really good things."
Chief among those good things? Flacco can consistently drive the football down the field.
On Wednesday, before a reporter could even finish asking the question of whether the Ravens throw the deep ball down the field as well as any team the Patriots have faced this season, coach Bill Belichick delivered an emphatic "yes."
Flacco's unmatched arm strength was witnessed during the divisional round of the playoffs, when he threw three touchdown passes of more than 30 yards.
But while Flacco might surpass Brady in arm strength, the veteran Patriots quarterback is as cerebral as he is accurate.
He is a coach on the field for an offense that runs at a nearly unprecedented tempo, making checks and shifts at the line of scrimmage that affect all 11 Patriots on the play.
He fits throws into windows most quarterbacks wouldn't be able to see, much less dare to throw into.
Brady and Flacco play different brands of football. Their strengths vary, and the offenses they are asked to execute contrast starkly. But it is what they have in common that defines quarterbacks in the NFL: a track record of winning and leadership.
Their wins speak for themselves. No quarterback has more of them since 2008 than Flacco (61 total), while Brady is just 60 minutes from becoming the first quarterback to start in six Super Bowls.
As for their leadership, let their teammates explain that.
"Sometimes I look at him in practice and I say, 'Man, you have been doing this for so long and you are still worried about your footwork,'" nose tackle Vince Wilfork said of Brady. "But it is just little things, and he is always going that extra mile to make sure he is in the best shape and in the best situation and putting his teammates in the best situation that can give us a chance to win."
"He is still that guy that comes early and leaves late," added linebacker Jerod Mayo. "He is hard working, and even though he is a Hall of Fame quarterback, you would think this is his first year, that he was starting his first year in the league. That is the way he works."
"Joe Flacco is truly our leader," Ravens running back Ray Rice said. "Not only has he taken the role of our leader, he is leading us down this whole stretch. The one thing that he's doing is he is very vocal. He gets us lined up. He does everything that he needs to do as a quarterback.
"Everybody has a job," Rice added. "His job, obviously, is the hardest job on the field as the general, but we all have been taking parts, bits and pieces, and going out there and executing.Ray Lewis said it right. He is the general."
A current quarterback peer of Brady and Flacco's, Aaron Rodgers of the Packers, as well as Hall of Fame signal-caller John Elway recently echoed the sentiment that as an NFL player, you earn your paycheck during the regular season, but you make your legacy during the postseason.
The question was posed to Brady of whether he shares that belief.
"To tell you the truth, I don't really think about any of that," he replied. "I'm just trying to win a football game this week."
It's what Brady and Flacco have continually done over the course of their careers: win.
It is the thread that exists between the two quarterbacks who don't seem, on the surface at least, to have much in common.
They'll share the field this Sunday at Gillette Stadium, and something will have to give.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Great Pics From the Denver Game
These are truly awesome!
See them all at http://shawnhubbard.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/keeping-the-faith/
"The Bomb"
Incredible breakdown of "The Bomb"
http://4thand29.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-answer-flaccos-overtime-insight.html
http://4thand29.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-answer-flaccos-overtime-insight.html
Weekly Poop 1/16/13
Roost
#44 Poop
- Dates to Remember:
- Tonight – Special AFC Championship Edition of the Ravens Rap Show @ the Blue Ox. Bruce Laird is scheduled to be on hand to discuss last week's thriller in Denver and this week's AFC Championship game.
- Friday, – Water Conservation Group Meeting @ …
- Sunday, February 3 - Super Bowl Party at Blue Ox
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- Saturday, April 13, 2013 – Ravens Roost #44 Dance. Details soon.
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On Tables:
Pretzels
Chips
Out on arrival:
Cheese and Veggie Tray
Buffalo Chicken Dip
Crab Dip
Half Time: (Tables to be randomly called)
Wings
Chicken Tenders
Pork BBQ with Mini Rolls
Meatballs
Pasta with white and red sauce
Green Salad
Steamed Shrimp (To be portioned out on plates)
Hamburgers with fixings
Bratwurst
Sauerkraut
Cole Slaw
Potato Salad
Desserts
Brownies
Lemon Jello Cake
Strawberry Shortcake
Beverages
1 keg each of Miller and Coors Light
Iced Tea, Coffee, Soda
All other alcohol will be charged to individual per Happy Hour prices
Note: Money due by January 25, 2013
Make checks payable to - Ravens Roost #44
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- Roost Apparel: The next "apparel store" time for touching, trying on and otherwise fondling the merchandise will be at the next meeting on February 14th. You can also call Maggie at 410-208-2756 or email her millermaggie@mchsi.com to make arrangements for pick up and payment at her home if you'd like a shirt or jersey before then. The prices for the Ox, Raven and Turtle character shirts are: $15 (short sleeved in purple, dark gray and ash and a variety of sizes from med to 3XL). The sweatshirts are gone - sorry! The purple Roost 44 jerseys are still available in a variety of sizes and they cost $35. Show your spirit around town!
Ravens Poop
- NFL history has “The Catch”, and “The Drive”. Now it has “The Bomb”, Joe Flacco's majestic, 70 yard pass to Jacoby Jones in the waning seconds of regulation to tie the game 35-35. Ray Lewis's last ride continues! The Ravens beat the Peyton led Broncos 38-35 in double overtime to advance to the AFC Championship game where they'll take on the Patriots, Sunday, 6:30 pm. When Justin Tucker's 47 yard field goal split the uprights to give the Ravens the win, I was so ecstatic I think I hugged every person in the Greene Turtle.
- Good news notes and nuggets from Sarah Ellison’s Blog here. It’s getting to the point where I can hardly stand ESPN, but I do go Jamison Hensley’s Blog here to stay up to date with all of the AFC North news.
Local
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- Friday, Saturday & Sunday - East Coast Commercial Fishermen's & Aquaculture Trade Expo 2013, Roland E. Powell Convention Center, 40th Street and the Bay. The only Commercial Fishing Expo in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Seminars, Fishermen Gear, Equipment and more. Hours: Friday 11:00 am - 6:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m., Sunday 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. For more information, please visit www.marylandwatermen.com.
- Saturday & Sunday - North American Craft Show 2013, Roland E. Powell Convention Center, 40th Street and the Bay. Variety of quality, juried arts & crafters exhibiting their products for sale. Music. Food available. Admission. Saturday, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Donald A. Hastings, 410-524-9177. Admission also includes entry to Art Festival. duckmandon@comcast.net or www.donaldsduckshoppe.com.
- Saturday & Sunday - Nautical & Wildlife Art Festival 2013, Roland E. Powell Convention Center, 40th Street and the Bay. The Shore’s premier presentation of nautical & wildlife artists in residence. Noted painters, sculptors, model shipbuilders & multi-media artists highlight this annual show. Admission. Admission also includes entry to North American Craft Show. Saturday, 10 a.m.- 5 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Donald A. Hastings, 410-524-9177. duckmandon@comcast.net or www.donaldsduckshoppe.com.
Funny Poop
- Peyton Manning, after living a full life, died. When he got to heaven, GOD was showing him around. They came to a modest little house with a pair of faded Colt's and Bronco's flags in the window. "This house is yours for eternity, Peyton." said GOD. "This is very special; not everyone gets a house up here." Peyton felt special, indeed, and walked up to his house. On his way up to the porch he noticed another house just around the corner. It was a 3 story mansion with a Purple and Black sidewalk, a 50 foot tall flagpole with an enormous Ravens logo flag, and in every window, a Ravens towel. Peyton looked at GOD and said, "GOD, I'm not trying to be ungrateful, but I have a question. I was an all pro QB, I hold many NFL records, and I even won a Super Bowl." GOD said, "So what's your point Peyton?" "Well, why does Ray Lewis get a better house than me?" GOD chuckled and said, "Peyton, that's not Ray's house, its mine.
- A serious drunk walked into a bar and, after staring for some time at the only woman seated at the bar, walked over to her and kissed her. She jumped up and slapped him silly. He immediately apologized and explained, "I'm sorry. I thought you were my wife. You look exactly like her.""Why you worthless, insufferable, wretched, no good drunk!" she screamed."Funny," he muttered, "you even sound exactly like her."
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- Life is short. Focus on the good.
Frank
Baltimore Ravens, let’s go
And put that ball across the line
So fly with talons spread wide
Go in and strike with Ravens pride
Fight! Fight! Fight!
Ravens dark wings take flight
Dive in and show them your might
For Baltimore and Maryland
You will fly on to victory
Monday, January 14, 2013
Flacco vs. Brady
AFC Championship 2013: Tom Brady and Joe Flacco Will Determine Sunday's Winner
BY ON JANUARY 14, 2013
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Sunday's AFC Championship Game rematch in New England hinges on one battle: The quarterback duel between Tom Brady and Joe Flacco.
Brady and Flacco will meet for the third time in a year. It will be the second time they will play the AFC Championship on a Sunday evening inside Gillette Stadium.
But while the obvious choice for who will win the battle would seem to be Brady, it's likely to be the wrong one.
The often-criticized Flacco has outplayed the three-time Super Bowl champion twice since last January. The last time the Baltimore Ravens and New England Patriots met in Week 3, he played superbly at home and his team emerged with a narrow victory, 31-30.
Before then, Flacco outperformed Brady in the 2012 AFC Championship Game inFoxborough, but his team lost by a narrow 23-20 margin because of one key drop in the end zone by wide receiver Lee Evans (a late play that would have given Baltimore a four-point lead with seconds left).
Therefore this weekend's high-stakes matchup will be determined by the two gunslingers.
Whichever signal-caller can be most effective this weekend will lead his team to Super Bowl XLVII. Both defenses obviously play a key role in that, but in the last twomatchups, it's been Brady, not Flacco who has struggled and looked far from elite.
Over the last two meetings, Flacco has significantly outplayed Brady from a statistical standpoint, averaging 344 passing yards in those two games, compared to Brady's 287. And while both have tossed two interceptions over the course of their last two meetings, Flacco has five passing touchdowns (six if Evans holds onto the ball) to Brady's one.
Flacco has also made more plays downfield than Brady, averaging 9.3 yards per attempt over their last two matchups, compared to Brady's 7.4 YPA.
Joe Flacco has had his way with the Patriots' secondary in recent meetings.Patrick Smith/Getty Images
Brady defenders will point to the Ravens' stout defense and the Patriots' porous D as to the reason why Flacco has gotten the better of the former Super Bowl MVP in recent meetings. But either way, Brady, who is considered to be one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, must figure out a way to become more of a threat to Baltimore's defense.
Although the 13-year veteran threw for 1,000 yards and 12 touchdowns more thanFlacco during the regular season, he'll have to replicate that overall performance in the postseason against the playoffs' leading passer.
No quarterback this postseason has been more lethal through the air than Flacco, who has thrown for 633 yards, five touchdowns and zero interceptions in two playoff wins. His 120 passer rating is also the best among all quarterbacks in the postseason.
For Baltimore, Sunday's game hinges on the play of Flacco, a five-year veteran with seven playoff wins to his name already. For New England, the hope for a second straight Super Bowl appearance rests on the shoulders of the quarterback with the most wins in playoff history, Brady. While Flacco has never led his team to a Super Bowl, the trend points to him outplaying Brady once again Sunday, which bodes well for the Ravens.
Follow Bleacher Report Featured Columnist Patrick Clarke on Twitter.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1484015-afc-championship-2013-tom-brady-and-joe-flacco-will-determine-sundays-winner
Saturday, January 12, 2013
RAVENS RAVENS RAVENS
Ray Lewis, Baltimore Ravens advance to AFC title game
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- Around The League editor
- Published: Jan. 12, 2013 at 09:11 p.m.
- Updated: Jan. 12, 2013 at 10:24 p.m.
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