Snow And The NFL Playoff Runs



I can't get enough of these images, snow starved as I am in England.

Believe it or not, even that disasterous Seahawks/Eagles debaucherie kept me watching simply for the flakes.

Gawd how I miss them:



And yea, it probably wasn't just Chicago and Pittsburgh but if two teams are synonymous with smash-mouth football and snow and cold, Da Bears and Da Steelers would be near the top.

Nevermind that the Steelers let the Bears marvelous winning streak tumble and fall. After all, Joe Orton is the Roethlisberger of 2006, low-talent, win-streak-totin rookie QB wondering where it all went right.

All yesterday proved, along with the fatality of the Carolina Panthers to the Tampa Bucs at home, is that there is one team, one favourite, one meeting scheduled with destiny and that would be the 13-0 Colts who now must try and avoid not only losing any of the last three games but any of the games in the post-season thereafter lest they cruise through an undefeated regular season only to choke on it hosting the Pats or the Broncos or something equally absurd.


Any chance Manning and the Colts will fall prey to the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately swoon?

Guessing here they run the gauntlet. Too late for any other outcome.

And let's face it - there really isn't any quality competition out there anymore. Certainly not from the NFC - Giants, Panthers and Bears, oh my? Of course, with such a fantastic record, the dreaded Seahawks might just make it all the way but here's hoping they don't. Seattle is too dreary, too much of a non-football culture with a fat,boring coach and a lousy NFL QB, albeit one of the better running backs in the league.



What we are left with is what is likely to be a rather anti-climactic outcome by season's end, a brilliant and historical run by the Colts but about as exciting as the Dolphins methodical culmination to their own 1972 run was to watch.

*****DRAW*****



Certainly England are happy.

However, the United States, Italy, Czech Republic, Argentina, Holland, Cote D'Ivoire and Ghana are not.

Spain and France were practically handed a spot in the quarterfinals. Here's to hoping they don't make it out of their own groups!

More insightful analysis to come, haha.