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Bill Plaschke: Move over, Rocky, there's a new underdog champion in Philadelphia

MINNEAPOLIS - Yo, Adrian! Meet your new Rocky.

He is from the heart of Philadelphia, he is the soul of Philadelphia, and he came off the deepest part of the canvas Sunday night to knock out the greatest heavyweight in NFL history.

He did it with a backup quarterback. He did it as such an underdog, his fans wore canine masks. And when the fight came to its exhausting, exhilarating conclusion, he did it with one final desperate comeback jab.

Battling the odds and more than a half-century of frustration, the Philadelphia Eagles landed a knockout punch for the ages in downing the mighty New England Patriots in

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