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Kriegel also alluded to the Falcons’ 23rd-ranked pass defense and 21st-ranked rush defense in 2012 as reasons that Matt Ryan couldn’t possibly win Super Bowl XLVIII, much less be named MVP.

Where this sits in the ledger

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Its year is 2013, and the shelf holds 56 items carrying the same one.

There are 31 entries under Game Day, this page counted among them.

The filing does not attach to one edition. That is common for material about the host city rather than about the match.

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The address of this page has not changed since it was first published, so links pointing here from elsewhere still land on the same record.

The foot of the page carries the neighbouring filings by date. They are not related by subject, only by when they landed.

What lands in game day is the football part of the week — form, fixtures, the build-up and the noise the networks make while the city waits for kick-off.

The text keeps its original claims. We would rather show what was believed at the time than quietly replace it.

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Edition	Years	Named most often	Stories
XLV	2016	Texas	5
XLVIII	2013–2016	New York	18
XLIX	2014	Arizona	6
50	2015–2016	San Francisco	22
LI	2016–2017	Texas	49
LII	2016–2017	Minnesota	15