Things to consider while wondering if Ray Lewis put the names of the two people he killed on his eyeblack back in 2000:

*Sometimes you find yourself typing a sentence you never thought you would: "Eric Alexander saved the game."

*For all the key moments, the turning point of the game came with 12 minutes to go. On the second Baltimore possession of the 2nd half, the Pats defense had probably their worst exhibition of tackling since probably last year's loss to Miami. Baltimore was blowing them off the line and shredding them between the tackles. It was at that point that the Pats brought Rodney Harrison as the 8th man in the box and the Ravens possession from that point on went: INT, punt, punt, Alexander's heroics, end of game.

*On the drive prior to that, McGahee's TD was set up by, Le'Ron McClain who had a superb kick out block on Adalius Thomas while Jonathan Ogden digested Jarvis Green. The play created a broadcast television first: live, mutual, simultaneous orgasms by Tony Kornheiser and Ron Jaworski. And if you listened close, you could hear Shula saying he wished he'd taken his Cialis so he could be Pivot Man in the circle jerk.

*Is there anything more tired than Ray Lewis' pregame chest-thumping woofing routine? Maybe that went over big with America's simpleton population when the team was on a role back in 2000, but when you're 4-7, it just gets sort of played out and sad. But he's married to it so he can't get rid of it. The paying customers don't care how tired it is, the consider it part of the ticket price. It's Lewis' "Margaritaville."

*I'm not saying Lewis' stats get padded, but he got credit for an assist when the ref made the sack in the Bud Light commercial.

*You know it's a blustery night when the reporter chicks are covering $200 hairdo's with bigass wool hats and thick scarves. I guess America's sideline cupcakes want more Wendy Nix, less Windy Necks.

*Nice to see the end of another gutsy year by Steve "Die Hard" McNair, who had a season ending shoulder injury on the coin flip.

*The Ravens will no doubt spend the next 72 hours bitching because that's what they do. They bark and yap more than Fight Night at Bad Newz. But there wasn't one call down the stretch the refs didn't get right. Particularly the call for holding Ben Watson in the end zone, where Jamaine Winborne had him in a submission arm bar from the 7 yard line in. The question Baltimore needs to ask, because I'm asking it, is "What took you so long?" On Brady's INT, Corey Ivy held Wes Welker like it was a cold night on "Brokeback Mountain."

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