By EDDIE PELLS AP Sports Writer SAN DIEGO (AP) — Squinting into the sunlight, glaring down at the reporters, Jon Gruden did his best to be a good sport. It wasn't easy. “You guys are killing me,†the Tampa Bay coach said when the 50th or 100th or maybe the 1,000th question on the same subject floated his way. With the Super Bowl approaching, Gruden only wants the story of his strange breakup with his former employee and upcoming opponent, Al Davis and the Oakland Raiders, to disappear into the “rearview mirror.†But rearview mirror stories like Gruden's are what the Super Bowl is all about.<p>*** No, they're not.
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