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Here's Mike Lupica, Mitch Album, and Bob Ryan. I'm Bob Ryan of the Boston Globe and ESPN. I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press.

I'm Mike Lupig of the New York Daily News and MLB.com.

And welcome to the Monday edition of the sports reporters.

We've had a lot of moving pieces lately, but we have put the band back together today.

We have much to discuss in football, starting with pro football.

And then we will get to colleges where we

will kick around the rankings, but I believe the right team has now been designated as

number one in the country.

But let's start with what has become a bit of a controversial game, a replay of last

year's AFC championship game in Foxborough with the Patriots

and the Chiefs yesterday.

And Ryan and I, you know, Mitch, you know we hardly

ever argue about anything.

But before we started today, we were kicking around

the idea that Bob thinks that the Chiefs play

better.

I agree that the Chiefs played better.

But I also pointed out to Bob that if we went through the NFL games yesterday,

and I took two touchdowns away from many losing teams,

they'd probably think they should have won those games.

And I think the Patriots got screwed yesterday. They did get screwed.

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