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We're going on 14 years since a running back was the Most Valuable Player in a Super Bowl, and Brandon Jacobs isn't talking like someone who could blow up that trend Sunday.
"It'd be hard for any running back to be the game's MVP with the what quarterbacks are doing; you'd have to have astronomical numbers," said the New York Giants' 265-pound banger. "If you had 150 yards and two TDs, that probably wouldn't get it for you."
You know that's just about dead right.
Terrell Davis needed 157 and three touchdowns to edge John Elway for MVP when the Broncos clipped the Green Bay Packers that day in January 1998.
Those kinds of rushing performances, particularly in postseason games, are burrowing toward the game's archival footage.
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