S.F. Examiner: These NFL meetings will be anything but ordinary

By Art Spander
San Francisco Examiner

So the big boys from the NFL — the owners, not the players — come to The City by the Bay seeking peace and a new extra-point rule. Of course. Isn’t this the cool, gray city of love? Wasn’t the United Nations Charter signed in a hotel on Nob Hill?

Didn’t there used to be a pro football team playing in San Francisco?

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S.F, Examiner: Deflategate won't diminish Brady's greatness

By Art Spander
San Francisco Examiner

That’s enlightening, to find out the New England Patriots’ locker room guy, Jim McNally, was nicknamed “The Deflator” because he was trying to lose, no, not games, but weight.

Maybe Jenny Craig should have been the one checking the air pressure of the footballs.

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The Sports Xchange: SB XLIX: Relieved Brady is MVP again

By Art Spander
The Sports Xchange

GLENDALE, Ariz. — He was weary and battered, a champion once again, an MVP once more. 

Tom Brady, who wasn't necessarily the man who made the difference — although certainly he was a difference-maker — stood there as much in gratification as in glory. 

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SF Examiner: Tom Brady falls short in bid to match Montana

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

Tom Brady didn’t catch the man whom as a kid he idolized. It could have been because a couple of his best receivers didn’t catch the ball. But ever the team player, Brady was philosophical, not angry.

Another Super Bowl for Brady — the fifth in 10 years — and after three victories, a second straight loss. This time to the same team, the New York Giants, who beat him four years ago. Sunday, in Super Bowl XLVI, those Giants defeated Brady’s New England Patriots 21-17.

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SF Examiner: Super Bowl odds are in favor of Patriots because of Tom Brady

By Art Spander
Special to The Examiner

How to figure this one, Super Bowl XLVI, between the New England Patriots, who haven’t lost in 11 games, and the New York Giants, who in November were the last team to beat the Patriots, if only by a 24-20 score?

It’s between a Patriots defense, which wasn’t very intimidating, and a Giants rushing offense, which has come up small.

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