71.   This is standard procedure among all the teams who get to the divisional playoffs.

72.   Tuesday night, Darryl Strawberry will be riding the bench when the two teams begin their divisional playoff series at Yankee Stadium with Todd Stottlemyre on the mound.

73.   Two consecutive devastating defeats have left them one game away from elimination in their American League divisional playoff series.

74.   Under Parcells, of course, the Jets defeated the Jaguars in the divisional playoffs last January.

75.   When Dan Marino tried to do that last Saturday in the divisional playoff here, his Dolphins teammates could not hear him barking out signals.

76.   When they returned three months later for a divisional playoff, they put up much more of a fight before falling to the eventual Super Bowl champs.

77.   Whenever the Jaguars appeared down and out, they kept springing up with improbable plays to bounce back into their AFC divisional playoff game.

78.   When the Cowboys play host to the divisional playoff game, the starters will be rested and practically unrecognizable from the team that finished the season.

79.   Wilkins reaggravated the patella tendinitis in his left knee in the divisional playoff win over Minnesota.

80.   Philadelphia plays the New York Giants in an NFC divisional playoff next Sunday.