1.   Along the way there are the planes, trains, automobiles, hotel rooms, and trays of free shrimp at postgame parties.

2.   Early this month, Gwynn attended a postgame party thrown by the club that turned out to be a surprise roast.

3.   For Switzer and Jones, then, the postgame party was barely over before the sobering business of preparing to defend the crown had begun.

4.   For them, the game itself is mainly a place to rest between the lunchtime gathering and the postgame party.

5.   He had a postgame party at his newly minted steak house at the Mohegan Sun casino in Uncasville, Conn.

6.   Maybe for them, the postgame party has already started.

7.   Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis went to a Super Bowl postgame party last year and ended up on trial for murder.

8.   The Broncos held a postgame party Sunday night for the team members and their families.

9.   A small postgame party was planned afterwards.

10.   Tim Forneris, a ground-crew worker, picked it up and later gave it to McGwire in a postgame party on the field.