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The ride's over Green Bay has too much punch; beaten Patriots show early grit
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NEW ORLEANS -- They united our region, providing thrills and
expectations not experienced in more than a decade. They gave New
Englanders a new topic to go with politics and weather, and they
restored a local pride that's been missing since Larry Bird and
friends patrolled the parquet in the golden days of the 1980s.
The 1996-97 New England Patriots were a little like the Blizzard
of '78. They arrived unexpectedly, brought strangers together, and
dominated morning coffee conversatio...
