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Titans, Giants clinch home field NFL advantage
AFP - 1 hour 18 minutes ago
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AFP) - - The Tennessee Titans and New York Giants both clinched home field advantage throughout the National Football League playoffs with tenacious victories.
The Titans rallied for a 31-14 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers to lock up the top seed in the American Conference.
The reigning Super Bowl champion New York Giants downed Carolina 34-28 in overtime to capture home field advantage in the National Conference.
The surprising Atlanta Falcons also booked a playoff berth, but elsewhere the penultimate week of the 2008 campaign left plenty of teams with something to fight for.
In a showdown between the AFC's two top teams, the Titans shrugged off their second defeat of the season last week to stop the surging Steelers' winning streak at five games.
"This was a momentum game for us," Titans coach Jeff Fisher said. "This was not a statement game by no means, but it was a momentum game. We needed to build momentum for the playoffs."
Rookie Chris Johnson and LenDale White rushed for touchdowns in the second half for the Titans.
The Steelers, who entered the game with the NFL's top-ranked defense, gave up the most points they had allowed all season.
No one had scored more than 13 against the Steelers during their winning streak.
The Titans scored 21 points on four turnovers by Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who threw two interceptions and fumbled twice.
At Giants Stadium, Derrick Ward turned in two crucial runs to help set up Brandon Jacobs' 2-yard touchdown plunge that delivered the overtime victory.
Ward, who rushed for a career-high 215 yards, took off on a 51-yard run to the Panthers' 36 yard line.
With the Giants facing a 3rd-and-7, Ward gained 14 yards to the 19 and two plays later Jacobs scored his third touchdown of the game.
The Giants had trailed by eight before tying the game with 3:21 left in regulation.
Jacobs' 1-yard touchdown run cut the deficit to two points, and quarterback Eli Manning hit Domenik Hixon on the ensuing two-point conversion to knot the score at 28-28.
John Kasay missed a 50-yard field goal with four seconds left that would have given Carolina the win.
The Panthers, already assured of a playoff berth, lead Atlanta by one game atop the NFC South.
The Falcons, who finished 4-12 last season in a year marred by Michael Vick's arrest on ugly dogfighting charges, are headed to the playoffs for the first time since 2004 with a first-year coach in Mike Smith and rookie quarterback Matt Ryan
Ryan turned in a mistake free performance in a 24-17 victory over Minnesota, who failed to wrap up the NFC North.
Atlanta capitalized on defeats of conference foes Dallas, Tampa Bay and Philadelphia to punch their playoff ticket and help keep the NFC playoff hunt open going into the last weekend of the season.
The Vikings and Cowboys still control their playoff destinies in their final games.
Minnesota can win the NFC North by beating the visiting Giants, while Dallas will capture a wild card with a victory next week at Philadelphia - whose hopes were dented Sunday by a 10-3 loss to Washington.
In the AFC, defeats for Denver and the New York Jets also opened up a wealth of possibilities.
The Broncos once again failed to clinch the AFC West, falling 30-23 to Buffalo.
That means Denver will face a showdown for the division title with San Diego, who boosted their waning hopes with a 41-24 victory over Tampa Bay.
Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers passed for 287 yards and a career-high four touchdowns, two of them caught by tight end Antonio Gates.
Buffalo quarterback Trent Edwards overcame a slow start to lead the Bills on two fourth-quarter touchdown drives.
Denver quarterback Jay Cutler scored two rushing touchdowns while throwing for 359 yards on 25 completions. However, his fourth-quarter pass into the end zone for Brandon Stokley with less than a minute to play was incomplete.
The Miami Dolphins, a woeful 1-15 last season, defeated Kansas City 38-31 to keep their chances of capturing the AFC East alive.
They could clinch the crown with a victory next week over divison rivals the New York Jets, whose hopes dimmed with a 13-3 loss to Seattle.
If the Dolphins lose, the New England Patriots can capture the division with a win at Buffalo.
New England kept their playoff bid on track with a 47-7 victory over NFC West champions Arizona.
In other games, Cincinnati downed Cleveland 14-0, New Orleans routed Detroit 42-7 as the hapless Lions became the first 0-15 team in NFL history.
San Francisco edged St. Louis 17-16 and Oakland defeated Houston 27-16.
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