The game will not be remembered as consistent or especially pretty and the shame of the power outage is that how it will be the biggest XLVII memory, taller than Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco's deserved MVP or even the final NFL game of the attention-grabbing linebacker Ray Lewis, whose retirement announcement wasn't supposed to motivate his team this far.

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They won it on the shooting of Seimone Augustus, who averaged nearly 25 points a game, and after leading the scoring charge in the final game, was named -- not surprisingly -- Finals MVP.

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Cabrera, the All-Star game MVP, was suspended Aug. 15 for a positive test for testosterone and is missing the final 45 games of the regular season.

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