Article: Rivers's Effort Is 'Gutsy'

-- San Diego quarterback Philip Rivers played the AFC title game Sunday with a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee suffered a week earlier during a second-round triumph at Indianapolis.

Rivers played relatively well, completing 19 of 37 passes for 211 yards. But he also threw two interceptions.

"It held up pretty good," Rivers said. "It really was no impact on my play. I couldn't move around quite as good as maybe I could have needed on a couple occasions. But it really didn't have an impact as far as throwing and those kinds of things."

Rivers said he probably will have to undergo offseason knee surgery. He'd also been playing with an injury to his left knee suffered ...

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