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Pat Caputo: NFL Conference Title Games More Proof Lions Have The Most Important Part - Matthew Stafford

They say there are no new plays in football. Only old ones brought back.

The formula for winning Super Bowl championships hasn't differed much, either, since its inception in the 1960s.

The great Packers teams of the '60s, and the Dolphins and Steelers of the '70s, were decidedly old school. They ran the ball first, threw it second.

But it's not a coincidence the quarterbacks of all those teams — Green Bay's Bart Starr, Miami's Bob Griese and Pittsburgh's Terry Bradshaw — are in the Hall of the Fame.

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