Beginning with the 1984-85 season, the NFC won the Super Bowl 13 consecutive times.
Small-market NFL teams have won the Super Bowl, as have under the radar NHL teams.
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The Saints won the Super Bowl in 2010, in the midst of the bounty program.
Worst of all, the New York Giants the Jets' older, taciturn roommate won the Super Bowl over New England.
The report said the pool amounts reached their height in 2009, the year the Saints won the Super Bowl.
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Note that Trent Dilfer was their quarterback when the won the Super Bowl.
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Charity would also be a winner if the Falcons won the Super Bowl.
The Saints stayed in town, and won the Super Bowl three years ago, a moment of sports and civic triumph.
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Lewis was the AP Defensive Player of the Year in 2000, when Baltimore won the Super Bowl title, and in 2003.
The New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl after the 2009 season.
The market advanced an average 14.5% when a team from the NFC won the Super Bowl, compared to just 7.3% for AFC victories.
He won the Super Bowl MVP after the Patriots defeated the Philadelphia Eagles by a score of 24-21 in the 2005 championship game.
The 49ers may not have won the Super Bowl, but at least fans will have something to look forward to during the 2014 season.
His teams finished in first place in the Western Division seven of the 10 years he coached, and his Raiders won the Super Bowl after the 1976 season.
Baltimore Ravens punter Sam Koch rushed for a touchdown in November, which was probably the highlight of his career until his team won the Super Bowl in February.
"When we won the Super Bowl, it was like a veil of frustration, despair and negativity was lifted from the eyes of just about every citizen, " Nagin told CNN.
Twenty-five years from now, if you pull out those bluejeans, and fit into them, you are going to run around your house like you won the Super Bowl in overtime.
Yet the Pats lagged the league average in profitability (in the sense of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, all divided by enterprise value) in both years it won the Super Bowl.
The Cowboys have in fact ranked first or second in product sales since 1992, and in 1995, the year it won the Super Bowl for the third time this decade, accounted for 29% of league merchandise revenues.
Some were upset that the New York Giants received a ticker-tape parade in New York city less than a week after they won the Super Bowl, but that there were no set plans for the Iraq war veterans.
Only 10 teams outside the top 10 media markets have won the Super Bowl (thanks, in large part, to the prowess of the Packers and Steelers who have contributed five of those wins) in the same amount of time.
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In the unlikely event you didn't see it or haven't heard about it yet, the New York Giants won the Super Bowl in a stunning 17-14 victory over the New England Patriots last night, ending the Patriots' perfect season.
Mason Crosby, the Packers' kicker, ultimately sent the Giants (6-6) to their fourth straight loss, nailing a 31-yard field goal and sending his teammates onto the field like they'd won the Super Bowl maybe because the intensity of this game was the highest the defending Super Bowl champions have faced thus far.
The Baltimore Ravens, established in 1996 who arrived into town from Cleveland, have reached the NFL playoffs in 9 of 13 seasons since (and including) 2000 when they won the Super Bowl. 5 of those appearances have occurred consecutively dating back to 2008 and the arrival of Coach John Harbaugh.
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And while the 49ers haven't won a Super Bowl since 1995, the organization won five NFL championships between 1982 and 1995.
For example, quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers and Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints won the last two Super Bowl MVPs.
Well, the Baltimore Ravens have won only one Super Bowl, the one played in 2000.
In the first round of the college draft in 1978, the Cardinals passed on quarterback Doug Williams (who won a Super Bowl for the Redskins in 1988) and tight end Ozzie Newsome (who went to the Cleveland Browns and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999).
New York is on the brink of a Super Bowl that's just as unexpected as the Super Bowl it won four years ago.
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