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Late in the 2010 regular season Troy Polamalu hurt his Achilles tendon that all but rendered him useless in the Super Bowl.

Giants vs Bears, 1986 NFCC
Steelers vs Raiders, 2001 AFCC

The 78 Cowboys should be the obvious choice. They were defending champions. At that point they had just as much of a claim to being the team of the 70s as the Steelers did.

Can't believe these ones haven't been brought up yet.

Super Bowl XXX
Larry Brown

I'll never understand why NFL Films keeps insisting on using that clip of Noll running on the field with his team while he has a huge cold sore on his lip. But I liked the rare clips from Noll's first 3 seasons with the Steelers because they usually only use clips from 1972 on.

Browns: Week 13 loss to the Bengals in 1973. They still had a decent shot at the postseason, but lost that and the season finale to the Rams. They collapsed the next year and didn't get back to the postseason until 1980. Bills: Week 12 loss to the Dolphins in 1975 (Lou Saban's famous "WHY DID ...

What's more amazing than the Lions and the Browns not even appearing in a Super Bowl having been in existence all 50 seasons there have been Super Bowls is that they've had a combined 6 league/conference championship games in that time. THAT'S a drought.

One could say all of the old artificial turf rugs were obstacles.

The league's reasoning is that player's heads will be more accustomed to the helmet if it's the only helmet. I'm no anatomy major so I have no idea if that's true or not. Sounds more like a "cya" move than anything else. College teams wear 57 helmets a season nowadays and I haven't heard a...

Teams have to wear the same helmets in every game. Stripes and decals can be changed.