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Is this the end of playoff as we know it? after a season branded with fat offensive numbers, it will be left up to the Bucs, Eagles or Titans to prove the axiom that defense still wins championships. (NFL: Playoff Preview).
This may shock anyone who has watched the NFL this season. But, in a time long, long ago, when Butkus and Nitschke and LT and Tatum and Lott were players, not memories, and when Purple People Eaters and the Steel Curtain conjured up images of domination, not potential hard-rock groups, the league actually produced dirt-eating, blood-dripping, body-endangering defense. Think frozen tundra and mud and fear.
You do remember defense, don't you? That's when one team actually tries to prevent the other team from scoring. Those grainy images are coming back, right? OK, here's another memory tester. Remember when the accepted axiom in the NFL was--now, don't ...
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