My favorite sports story so far in this turbulent new decade? That’s easy. It’s the Tennessee Titans—football anarchists, lobbing stink bombs into all the expected story lines of these NFL playoffs.

How delightfully disruptive it’s been, watching this underestimated road dog of a team, once widely considered lucky just to be here, mow through the dreaded Patriots in Foxborough, and now the top-seeded Ravens on a warm and gloomy night in Baltimore.

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