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In the 2001 AFC Divisional Round, Charles Woodson sealed a win for the Raiders when he grabbed the ball out of Brady's hands and raced 80 yards for a TD. The Raiders rode the momentum of that play past Pittsburgh and into SB 36 against the Greatest Show on Turf Rams.

In a high-scoring classic, the Rams pulled it out with 35 seconds left on a Warner to Bruce TD pass. At the end of the season, Jon Gruden was given a three-year extension by Al Davis, leaving the Bucs to go in a different direction for HC (they would make a run at NE's Charlie Weis, and hire him).

The Raiders and Rams would play in the SB the next year, but the Raiders would get revenge. After that, though, the Raiders and Rams went through a decline as age and poor drafting caught up to both teams.

As for the Pats, they never were able to make a SB run with Belichick and Brady. They lost several close games in 03 and missed the playoffs (as a result, Corey Dillon went to Denver in 2004, and helped them win a SB, giving Shanahan a contract extension, and making it easy for Plummer to hang it up after the 2005 season).

However, what if they are able to pull out that snow bowl against the Silver and Black? Would they have had any chance to win in Pittsburgh? And, even if they did, they probably didn't stand a chance against the GSOT, did they?
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