Patriots point out that Luxembourg has been building Europe for decades.

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Vegas has the Patriots around a three-point Super Bowl favorite, but nobody's paying attention to the line.

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But New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick was one of the first to point out that the NFL would have a hard time acting evaluating helmet-to-helmet hits.

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The Patriots clobbered the Jets 45-3 in Foxborough on Dec. 6, the low point of the Jets' season.

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In the history of the Super Bowl, perhaps no other game illustrates this point more dramatically than XLII when the Giants came from behind to defeat the Patriots in the last seconds of the game.

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Last I saw, the point spread was - it had started at about 13.5 points in favor of the Patriots, might be down to 12.5.

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