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The Patriots receiver is returning to the NFL's title game, changed but not chastened since his time as a spotlight-seeking superstar who crashed the big party two years running as the lead correspondent for the "Ochocinco News Network." After a decade of losing in Cincinnati -- and having too much fun doing it -- Ochocinco swallowed his considerable ego to fit in better in New England, a franchise that likes its players boring.

The payoff: a trip to the Super Bowl for a player who had never won a postseason game.

"It's been a learning experience; that's what this has been. This had been one of the most humbling experiences I've ever been in," Ochocinco said Thursday as he prepared for the Feb. 5 game against the New York Giants in Indianapolis. "This is one of the first times I've been about doing exactly what everyone told me to do. It wasn't about the...

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