Continuing an examination of the new breed of Super Bowl champs ...
Much like a clock-eating running game, owning home field advantage used to be a prerequisite for a Super Bowl champion.
Times have most definitely changed.
Three of the past seven champs – the ’05 Steelers, ’07 Giants and ’10 Packers – reached the Super Bowl itself without the benefit of a single playoff home game, all going 3-0 on the road. Almost as impressive, this past season’s Giants posted two of their three playoff wins outside of New Jersey.
In all, the past seven Super squads have posted 12 postseason wins on enemy turf – a figure matching the total of the previous 24 Big Game winners combined.
That’s putting in some real road work.
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