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Perfection? These Pats have been there before

By Elizabeth Merrill
ESPN.com

Friday, February 1, 2008

PHOENIX -- The night before his team became perfect, Russ Hochstein sat in a hotel room and played Sheep's Head. Playing cards is what they do in small towns to pass the time. Two cards in the middle, pass, ante up. In 24 hours, his Nebraska football team would finish a 13-0 season. Hochstein had no idea if he should be nervous. He was young and naïve, and hadn't seen much of the world outside his farm in Hartington, Neb. Ten years and two Super Bowl rings later, life moves faster for the Patri ...

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