By Jimmy Smith, The Times-Picayune

February 04, 2010, 6:00AM

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. – Since 2002, and for the past 122 weeks in which an NFL game has been played, a player from the University of Miami has scored a touchdown

For 14 consecutive years, at least one Hurricanes player has been a first-round NFL draft choice.

Sunday evening in Super Bowl XLIV, a handful of former Hurricanes, from Indianapolis Colts wide receiver Reggie Wayne to Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma and tight end Jeremy Shockey will participate in the NFL championship game, a destination most who pass through the football program at the Coral Gables, Fla., school come to expect from the moment they arrive on the palm tree-lined campus through the time their name is called by the NFL commissioner on draft night.

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