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NFL Announces
Saints Fans
Football From Kenyan
Bucs Will Play The
Petition For NFC
Drake's 'Miami Miracle'
Panthers In London
With Rams
The Tampa Bay Bucca- neers and Carolina Panthers are taking their rivalry across the pond in 2019.
As one of the five teams that will host a game in the NFL's growing International Series next season, the Bucca- neers will play host to their di- vision foes in London. The game will be played at either Wembley Stadium or Totten- ham Hotspur Stadium; fur- ther event details such as location, date and time will be released when the NFL re- veals its full 2019 schedule in the spring. Last year, the three NFL games played in London fell on Weeks Six, Seven and Eight.
This will be the third time that the Buccaneers have played a regular-season game outside the United States, all
of them in London. Tampa Bay faced the New England Patriots at Wembley Stadium in 2009 and then returned to that venue in 2011 to take on the Chicago Bears.
The matchup with the Panthers will be considered part of the Buccaneers' home schedule in 2019. Tampa Bay will also have games at Ray- mond James Stadium against the Arizona Cardinals, Atlanta Falcons, Houston Texans, In- dianapolis Colts, New Orleans Saints, New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers.
Change.org petitions have helped save TV shows in the past.
Could one save the New Or- leans Saints' season?
In a word: No.
Nice gesture, but the NFL can't change the final results.
But that isn't stopping a massive group of people from trying. Nearly 200,000 fans have signed a petition as of publication, calling on the NFL to give the Saints an NFC Championship Game rematch against the Los Angeles Rams.
"Refs missed a blatant pass interference call against the Los Angeles Rams late in fourth quarter of Jan. 20 NFC Cham- pionship game, possibly cost- ing New Orleans Saints a trip to the Super Bowl. Due to refs’ in- ability to properly officiate at the game, we the undersigned want a re-match against L.A. on Sunday, Jan. 27. It’s the only fair solution to this travesty of epic proportions," a post by Terry Cassreino read.
The football used in one of the wildest plays of the NFL season was just sold at auc- tion for $18,678.
The ball is from the "Miami Miracle" in Week 14, which saw the Miami Dol- phins upset the New England Patriots on a 69-yard touch- down with no time remaining:
Kenyan Drake, who scored the game-winning touchdown, was not one of the bidders for the football de- spite wanting it back.
The Dolphins running back immediately threw the football into the stands in his excitement but regretted the
KENYAN DRAKE
decision the next day. He was offering a trade of cleats, gloves, a jersey or tickets to future games in exchange for the ball.
Deshaun Watson,
A Patriots-Rams Super Bowl Is Going To Be Fun, We Hope
JARED GOFF VS. TOM BRADY
Title Rematch
TD Auctioned Off For $18K
Mitchell Trubisky
James Harden Scores 61 To Continue Blistering
Make Pro Bowl
Scoring Stretch
DESHAUN WATSON
Tom Brady and Jared Goff won't be able to compete in the Pro Bowl after leading their teams to Super Bowl LIII, which opens the door for two more deserving quarter- backs in Sunday's all-star
game at Camping World Sta- dium in Orlando, Florida.
Houston Texans quarter- back Deshaun Watson will replace Brady for the AFC squad, per Brian T. Smith of the Houston Chronicle. In the NFC, Mitchell Trubisky of the Chicago Bears will take over for Goff.
Both players were first- round picks in the 2017 draft, which means all three Day 1 quarterbacks from that year have made the Pro Bowl in their second seasons. Kansas City Chiefs star Patrick Ma- homes already received a Pro Bowl nod.
JAMES HARDEN James Harden quickly
erased any doubt that his streak would end with this game.
The Houston Rockets star has been tormenting oppo- nents who have no discernible method to slow him down. While doing so, Harden has gone to work on building an- other MVP-caliber season.
He came to Madison Square Garden Wednesday night rid- ing a run of 20 consecutive games with at least 30 points, a streak the defensively chal- lenged Knicks couldn't end.
After reeling off a 19-point first quarter, Harden finished with 61 points to lead the Rock- ets to a 114-110 victory, sending the Knicks to their seventh straight loss and 10th consecu- tive on their home court.
Harden tied Kobe Bryant for most opponents by an opponent at the Garden. Bryant did it in 2009.
Super Bowl 53 is set. On February 3, the Los Angeles Rams will face the New Eng- land Patriots in a rematch of the game that launched Tom Brady to greatness 17 years ago.
The Rams came back to dispatch the Saints in the NFC title game, while the Pa- triots held off the Chiefs’ comeback efforts to earn their fourth AFC championship in five years. That sets up the re- match of a game from 2002 that took place in a world where the Patriots managed to be a 14-point underdog.
New England won’t be overlooked this time. This year’s Super Bowl will pit a budding, 24 year old quarter- back making his first appear- ance in the big game against a 41 year old making his ninth. Jared Goff will stare down the winningest quarterback in NFL postseason history on February 3, and if he doesn’t
blink he could be the one to hoist the Vince Lombardi Trophy at the end of the night.
It may be a familiar narra- tive to see the Patriots in the Super Bowl for the fourth time in five years. That does- n’t mean there’s a shortage of intriguing storylines to watch.
Are the Rams ready for another massive stage?
Los Angeles was a three- point underdog going into a raucous Superdome, but they withstood an early New Or- leans flurry (and noise so loud it rattled the team’s play- calling at the line of scrim- mage) to emerge with an overtime win that made Sean McVay the youngest head coach in Super Bowl his- tory. The Rams came back from a 13-0 deficit to prove they can handle adversity, shredding the Saints’ 88.2% win percentage in the process.
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