The NFL field has been whittled down to worthy set of 12, and the wild ride to New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII begins this weekend. Make no mistake about it, this will be a wild ride and the Patriots will be right in the thick of the madness. We're talking twists and turns and all the electricity that will be sure to fool us as the NFL playoff teams are further pared down en route to Dixieland..And then there is Baltimore's Ray Lewis, the best player in this year's Super Bowl and the most notorious from last year's, even though he didn't play in it. Twentyfour hours after Eugene Robinson, of the Atlanta Falcons, was arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover policewoman, Lewis was in the vicinity of a postmatch fight at a nightclub which ended in a double killing. He was charged with murder but not tried after pleading guilty instead to a lesser charge of obstruction of justice..

(The 17yearold was shot in the face after he showed up with two carloads of friends to co