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stillers4me
01-20-2011, 04:56 AM
The New York Jets are trying to hack out a path to the Super Bowl through what historically had been an impenetrable jungle -- until the Steelers showed the way five years ago.

For the first 39 Super Bowls, no team had ever come away with a Vince Lombardi Trophy by first winning three playoff games on the road. Then, the Steelers squeaked into the 2005 playoffs as the sixth seed in the AFC, won at Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Denver and completed the grand slam with a victory against Seattle in Super Bowl XL in Detroit.

Two years later, the New York Giants walked the same kind of path as the NFC's fifth seed to claim their third Lombardi Trophy. And now two sixth seeds have reached championship games, one each in the AFC and NFC: The New York Jets and Green Bay Packers.

What had not been done in the first 39 years of the Super Bowl could be accomplished for the third time in the past six seasons and, for the first time, two sixth seeds could square off Feb. 6 in Dallas.

Steelers tight end Heath Miller was a rookie when the Steelers pulled it off in 2005......................

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