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Health status of playoff contenders varies

By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com

Wednesday, December 3, 2003

Had your first 103-degree bout with the flu yet this year? Sniffled through that initial, and always miserable, autumn cold? Anyone in the immediate family needed the chiropractor to address a painful backache from shoveling that early and unanticipated snowfall? 'Tis the season, after all, for such maladies. So now that we've established a new personal record for most question marks used at the outset of a story, what does any of this have to do with football, or with the December playoff str ...

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