Tom Brady has the New England Patriots back in the Super Bowl. And they’ll see a familiar opponent.

The Patriots beat the stunned Ravens 23-20 in the AFC Championship Game on Sunday after Baltimore’s Billy Cundiff missed a 32-yard field-goal attempt with 11 seconds remaining in Foxborough, Mass.

Brady scored the winning touchdown when he leaped over the vaunted Ravens defense in the fourth quarter. The 1-yard dive brought the Patriots from behind, and their maligned defense made several key plays, including shutting down Ray Rice, the league’s total yardage leader.

“This team really overcame a lot, and they fought hard all year,” Patriots coach Bill Belichick told NFL Network’s Michael Lombardi after the game. “It wasn’t always perfect, just like today. We had our moments, but they hung in there and they fought hard. I’m happy for the players. They did a great job today.”

Next up as the Patriots chase their fourth Super Bowl trophy in Brady and Belichick’s tenure in New England are the New York Giants, who defeated New England 17-14 in Super Bowl XLII in Glendale, Ariz. This Super Bowl will be held Feb. 5 in Indianapolis.

Per PFT:

After Vernon Davis took a page out of the T.O. history book on Saturday against the Saints, we looked into the status of Owens’ IFL deliberations, and we reported that a decision is coming with the next week or so.

It has arrived.

Owens have announced, via a video apparently shot in his house (not to be confused with a press conference in his driveway), that he’s joining the Allen Wranglers of the IFL.

“Uh oh!  It’s official!  It just went down!  I’m headed back to Texas!  That’s right.  IFL, here I come.  Allen, Texas, here I come,” Owens said in a video linked from a Twitter message that says, “The WAIT IS OVER!!  GETCHA POPCORN READY!!”

Owens reportedly will receive compensation in the range of $250,00 to $500,000 from a team whose General Manager, former Cowboys receiver Drew Pearson, has criticized Owens in the past.

The Wranglers begin their season in late February.  Owens tore an ACL during the 2011 offseason, which made him even less attractive as an aging option with a reputation for creating trouble in the locker room.

Owens is sixth on the all-time receiving list, second in receiving yardage with 15,934, and tied for second in touchdowns with Randy Moss at 153.

Per NFL:

The pain Tim Tebow endured in Saturday’s AFC divisional playoff loss to the New England Patriots was more than emotional.

The Denver Broncos quarterback reportedly suffered multiple injuries after he was hit in the pocket during the third quarter of the 45-10 defeat, ESPN.com reported Wednesday.

Tebow tore cartilage along his rib and bruised a lung while suffering fluid buildup in his pleural cavity, a league source told the site.

Tebow, who was 9-for-26 passing for 136 yards against New England, experienced trouble sleeping over the weekend because of the pain and underwent an MRI on his chest on Monday, followed by rehab this week.

It doesn’t appear Tebow will be down for long. He told The Denver Post on Tuesday that he’s already missing daily practices, not to mention the games.

“I was going crazy (Monday),” he said.

Per NFL:

Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct in Ohio.

Jones entered the plea Wednesday in a Cincinnati courtroom and was ordered to serve one year of probation, complete 50 hours of community service and pay a $250 fine plus court costs.

The 28-year-old Jones is accused of being disorderly, shouting profanities and trying to pull away as officers arrested him at a downtown bar in July.

At the time, Jones was on probation in Las Vegas in connection with a 2007 no contest plea to a strip-club melee that left three people wounded. He was ordered in November to do an additional 75 hours of community service for violating that probation with the Cincinnati arrest.

The Bengals have declined comment.