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Article: Super Bowl XLI Coaches back where it all started
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- Courier News (Elgin, IL)
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- January 23, 2007
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LAKE FOREST - Bears coach Lovie Smith still carries a mental scar from a Super Bowl loss to the New England Patriots while serving as St. Louis Rams defensive coordinator in 2001.
Even at the risk of giving a similar scar to his good friend Tony Dungy, Smith doesn't want another one in Super Bowl XLI when the Bears face the Indianapolis Colts in Miami Feb. 4.
"First off, we lost that game and that feeling I will never forget," Smith said Monday at Halas Hall, a day after the Bears made the Super Bowl for the first time in 21 years. "I have a scar, that's a scar that will never go away of a loss in that Super Bowl. I don't want that feeling again, but it was a great experience.
"Back then ...