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The Philadelphia Eagles and San Diego Chargers are used to making the playoffs. For the Arizona Cardinals, going to the postseason in consecutive seasons is unfamiliar turf....

Best day of football of the year? Well, at least it was the best set of early games, with the most dramatic missed field goal of 2009, the Saints falling out of a Redwood and landing on their feet, Michael Vick actually engendering love, the Dolphins making a race of the AFC East, Bruce Gradkowski imitating Joe Montana, and the Colts and Saints -- the first time two teams have been unbeaten this late in any NFL season -- approaching perfection as polar opposites.

A star player who was fined thousands of dollars for a post about the quality of training-camp foods is talking about his tweet.

Antonio Cromartie was fined $2,500 by the San Diego Chargers after a post last Friday about the fare the Chargers were serving.

Chargers general manager A.J. Smith regrets making comments mocking star running back LaDainian Tomlinson, whose eight-year stay with the team could be over because of salary-cap issues.

"Two things I always knew about my league, the NFL: You don't ask for favors, you don't hang around. A man might love the game, but the game loves no one. The game will use what he has, (then) discard him. The sh-- isn't personal." --Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown, in his autobiography, Out of Bounds.