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NEW ENGLAND SAVORS VICTORY
MVP award
given to Patriots’
Deion Branch
(AP) - The Super Bowl couldn’t
have worked out better for New
England Patriots receiver Deion
Branch: He won the game’s MVP,
and then he got to celebrate with a
huge rooting section from his home
town.
“A lot of them didn’t go to the
game,” Branch said Monday, a day
after catching a record-tying 11
passes to help New England beat
the Philadelphia Eagles 24-21. “1
didn’t have enough tickets.”
Jacksonville is the smallest mar
ket to host the Super Bowl, and it
strained to house and entertain the
estimated 100,000 guests who came
for the game and the parties sur
rounding it. Local officials spent
much of the week defending their
efforts, and NFL commissioner Paul
Tagliabue defended the decision
to come to city without the warmth
o f Miami and San Diego or the
nightlife of New Orleans.
Branch said 70-75 of his friends
and family drove a couple o f hours
from Albany, Ga., to watch native
son tie Jerry Rice and Dan Ross
Super Bowl XXXIX M ost Valuable Player Deion Branch o f the New
England Patriots holds up the Vince Lombardi trophy after the
Patriots beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 24-21 in Jacksonville, Fla.,
on Sunday. (AP photo)
with 11 catches that totaled 133
yards. In all, eight of his catches for
106 yards came on New England’s
scoring drives.
“H e’s our biggest, strongest re
ceiver. He does all the dirty work,”
fellow receiver Troy Brown said.
“He leveled a guy on one of runs
down the sideline. He doesn’t get
enough credit. H e’s a big-time
playmaker. Our whole group o f re
ceivers doesn’t get the credit they
deserve.”
Brown had been New England’s
most recognizable pass-catcher -
and he got most of his headlines for
playing defense. And the Patriots
receiving corps had been entirely
overshadowed by Philadelphia’s
Terrell Owens, who made a gutsy,
early comeback from a leg injury to
catch nine passes for 122 yards.
But it was Branch who walked
off with a third championship ring
and the Pete Rozelle Trophy that
quarterback Tom Brady took home
in the Patriots’ last two Super Bowl
wins.
“They say big players step up in
big games,” Branch said after the
game. “All the hoopla was about
T.O. H e’s a great player. He really
sucked it up tonight. But I want to
show I have the same type of talent
as those guys.”
Emmitt
Smith
Emmitt Smith
Retires from NFL
(AP) - Breaking down in tears
and grasping his beloved Dallas
Cowboys helmet, Emmitt Smith
retired Thursday after a 15-year
career in which he became the
N FL's career rushing leader and
played a key role on three Super
Bowl champions.
The decision had been ex
pected for several days, but the
finality of it all was still poignant.
Flanked by his wife, Pat, andCow-
boys owner Jerry Jones, Smith
thanked a list o f people several
pages long - everyone from his
Pee Wee football coaches to long
tim e D a lla s fu llb a c k D aryl
"M oose" Johnston, the fierce
blocker whocleared so many holes
for No. 22.
“It’s been a tremendous ride,”
said Smith, who spent his final two
years with the Arizona Cardinals
after 13 seasons in Big D. "M y 15
years, my 15 minutes o f fame, is
up.”
The 35-year-old Smith ran for
18,355 yards and 164 touchdowns
in his career, both NFL records.
He won the NFL MVP in 1993
and the Super Bowl M V Pthat same
season, when he rushed for 130
yards and two touchdowns in the
Cow boys’ 30-13 win over Buffalo.
He also had perhaps his greatest
game with a separated shoulder,
rushing for 229 yards in a crucial
victory over the New York Giants.
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