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It says something about the strength of the Indianapolis Colts that they can afford to leave one puma boots of the great Super Bowl heroes in league history, kicker Adam Vinatieri, as a gameday inactive when they face the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV. It says something about Matt Stover too. There are very few kickers with the experience, the talent, and the proven reliability to displace a player like Vinatieri. The 42-year-old Stover, who will become the oldest player in Super Bowl history when he takes the field at Sun Life Stadium, is one of those few. Yet for all of the glossy numbers and genuine respect from teammates past and present, Stover spent all of training camp and the first five weeks of the 2009 regular season out of football altogether. Despite the fact that he had been with the team during their entire 13-year tenure in Baltimore, the Ravens decided they would go in a different direction and did not tender Stover a free agent offer after the 2008 season. Diminished leg strength, with had forced the Ravens to sign a revolving door of long-range specialists and kickoff guys to support Stover in previous years, was a major factor ...