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AP moved this photo with this caption: New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) congratulates Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning (18) after Manning and the Colts defeated the Patriots 27-20 in their football game in this Nov. 5, 2006 file photo in Foxborough, Mass. (Note to AP: It's Foxboro, and Attleboro, and it's not Ye Olde, either.)

I found Dr. Z's Positional Breakdowns at SI.com useful information, and I think it will make Sunday's fast scatters at the snap easier to follow. It's one-on-one "who's matching up against whom" on the Patriots and Colts teams. Offense | Defense.

The excitement is nationwide -- there's joy in San Francisco that the Raiders haven't sold out their Sunday game against Houston, so that one is now blacked out there.
John Ryan of the The San Jose Mercury News' Morning Buzz blog reports that California stations with a choice, such as Chico and Eureka, picked Pats-Colts, so the Raiders have drawn a blank in the entire state of California, to be replaced by Pats-Colts.

Ryan hoots, Raiders are BLACKED OUT! We see Patriots-Colts. He had promised no Raiders jokes for a week if fans would refrain buying tickets for this one.

SI had reported that 93 percent of the country would see Pats-Colts -- and that was before California came on board. Now it's 96 percent.

Houston is stuck with the Raiders, though, under NFL rules mandating the showing of the hometeam game.

Later: The Chron lays out alternative ways to watch Pats-Colts instead: A viewer's guide to watching the NFL's Colts, Patriots. Some require that you bring chips -- potato, tortilla, pita...

And Akron is moaning about having to watch the Seattle Seahawks-Browns game at 4:15 instead of the Big One.

CBS is smiling.