By Art Spander
For Maven Sports
ATLANTA — It wasn’t very super. Instead it was a verification of one of football’s oldest adages: You win on defense. Especially against team built on offense.
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Bill Belichick, Patriots, Rams, Super Bowl LIII Email Article By Art Spander
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ATLANTA — They came from the suburbs of the Bay Area, growing up 50 miles and almost a generation apart, the new kid on the block and the onetime kid who has knocked off everyone’s block, Jared Goff and Tom Brady.
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Jared Goff, Super Bowl LIII, Tom Brady Email Article By Art Spander
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ATLANTA — The job has its benefits, starting with the current annual salary of $35 million a year. The job — or at least the person holding it — has its critics, and it always has.
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By Art Spander
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ATLANTA — His father, Bum Phillips, once said of another coach, probably Don Shula but possibly also Bear Bryant, “He can take his’n and beat your’n, and he can take your’n and beat his’n.”
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Rams, Super Bowl LIII, Wade Phillips Email Article By Art Spander
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ATLANTA — Super Bowl media day always has been crazy. Now it’s commercial. Now it’s “Opening Night Fueled by Gatorade.” Now it’s been turned into another spectator event, people in the stands and, of course, paying to get in.
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Bill Belichick, Patriots, Rams, Super Bowl LIII Email Article