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January 21, 2011, Friday
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NEW York wide receiver Santonio Holmes, who was traded by the Pittsburgh Steelers to the Jets before the season for a cut-rate price, said winning a Super Bowl would be proper payback to his former team.
Holmes, the Super Bowl MVP for the Steelers when they won the NFL title in 2009, was traded last April for a fifth-round draft pick given off-field problems and a four-game suspension for violating substance abuse rules.
He will face his former team when New York visits Pittsburgh on Sunday in the AFC Championship game with the winner moving on to the Super Bowl in Dallas.
"This game is about getting to the Super Bowl. I don't care about the Steelers right now," Holmes said on Wednesday. "If we win the Super Bowl, then everything is personal. That's a slap right back in those guys' face for trading me."
Holmes, a first-round draft pick for Pittsburgh out of Ohio State in 2006, made an acrobatic, game-winning catch to clinch the Lombardi Trophy against the Arizona Cardinals.
He singled out one Steelers player as a potential obstacle to the Jets reaching the Super Bowl.
"I honestly think Troy Polamalu is probably the greatest player I've ever played with or ever seen play," Holmes said about the Steelers safety.
"The things that he (does to) disrupt a team. He's jumping over the line of scrimmage at the snap of the ball. He's tackling runners in the backfield... He's doing numerous things."
Holmes, the Super Bowl MVP for the Steelers when they won the NFL title in 2009, was traded last April for a fifth-round draft pick given off-field problems and a four-game suspension for violating substance abuse rules.
He will face his former team when New York visits Pittsburgh on Sunday in the AFC Championship game with the winner moving on to the Super Bowl in Dallas.
"This game is about getting to the Super Bowl. I don't care about the Steelers right now," Holmes said on Wednesday. "If we win the Super Bowl, then everything is personal. That's a slap right back in those guys' face for trading me."
Holmes, a first-round draft pick for Pittsburgh out of Ohio State in 2006, made an acrobatic, game-winning catch to clinch the Lombardi Trophy against the Arizona Cardinals.
He singled out one Steelers player as a potential obstacle to the Jets reaching the Super Bowl.
"I honestly think Troy Polamalu is probably the greatest player I've ever played with or ever seen play," Holmes said about the Steelers safety.
"The things that he (does to) disrupt a team. He's jumping over the line of scrimmage at the snap of the ball. He's tackling runners in the backfield... He's doing numerous things."
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