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Sad truth for Rex Ryan: Huge win was relief, not celebration

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Rex Ryan hugs Calvin Pace after the Bills' win.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — As it turned out for Rex Ryan, he finally got to win a Super Bowl.

Two of them. Against his former team. By the same score in the same season.

The second — Sunday’s 22-17 win over the Jets at frigid and windy Ralph Wilson Stadium — knocked the Jets out of the playoffs on the final day of the season.

They don’t give rings out for the kind of Super Bowl Ryan won, but that did not take anything away from the massive sense of satisfaction he took from the win.