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10-31-2010, 08:00 AM
By Mark Kaboly (mkaboly@dailynewsemail.com), TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Championship-winning teams scoff at the notion of a Super Bowl hangover and, inevitably nearly every year, the defending champ has its share of problems following a world title.

Both teams in tonight's nationally televised game between three of the past five Super Bowl winners can attest to that. The Steelers won the Super Bowl in 2005 and 2008 then failed to make the playoffs the following seasons.

Last year's champ, New Orleans, is well on its way of following down the path of the Steelers, starting the season 4-3 and fresh off losing a home game to the Cleveland Browns last week in which they were two-touchdown favorites.

"There are a lot of stresses of trying to repeat," Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger said, who failed in his two attempts.

But Roethlisberger is far from being alone on that list..................

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