NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Three games, eons ago in the football lifespan of a player, don’t mean much to the 53 guys on the current Titans roster and the 46 who will play in Baltimore Sunday.

But for the franchise and its fans, the Ravens in the playoffs means something big, because the Ravens wrecked two of Tennessee’s greatest seasons.

In 2000 and in 2008, in eerily similar games, the No. 1 seeded Titans hosted Baltimore and lost in excruciating fashion.

In between, the fifth-seeded Titans went to fourth-seeded Baltimore as a wild card in 2003 and won.

What’s the first thing Eddie George, a central figure in the 2000 and 2003 games, thinks of when he hears Titans-Ravens?

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