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Lawrence Taylor and Harry Carson give Giants defensive coordinator Bill Belichick a Gatorade shower following the team’s 49-3 victory over the 49ers in the 1986 NFC Divisional Playoffs. Will Belichick’s current team, the 4-1 Patriots, be celebrating this January? (Jerry Wachter/SI)

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