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Friendly Fire

By By David Fleming

Thursday, October 24, 2002

They are second-cousin quarterbacks who grew up blocks from each other in Newport News, Va. Yet before Atlanta's 37-35 last-second, Week 8 win over New Orleans, the Falcons' Michael Vick and the Saints' Aaron Brooks had never played each other on a football field. In 1998, Vick was in his redshirt year at Virginia Tech and watched from the sideline as Brooks, a senior, led Virginia from a 22-point halftime deficit to the best comeback in school history. On the game-winning drive, after a wild s ...

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