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NFL avoids another PR disaster
Originally Published: February 9, 2010
By Len Pasquarelli | ESPN.com
MIAMI -- The 74-yard interception return for a touchdown by New Orleans cornerback Tracy Porter, with a little more than three minutes remaining in Super Bowl XLIV, set off all sorts of celebratory reactions.
In the private booth next to the press box at Sun Life Stadium, the takeaway and clinching touchdown sprint brought gleeful whoops and high fives from Jacksonville owner Wayne Weaver, whose team has been tormented by Indianapolis for years. On the Saints' bench, grown men hugged each ...
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