If Philly and SD both win...

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Which isn't exactly impossible...

8-8 San Diego and 9-7 Arizona ... perhaps two of the least deserving playoff teams of all-time ... will be playing at home in Confrence Championship games.

San Diego was 0-5 against playoff teams in the regular season - and Arizona played in a monunmentally bad division .. and flat out quit in a regular season game I watched against NE. A performance that might have been the most pathetic effort I've ever seem from a team that played all starters.

i agree that san diego is one of the worst teams ever to get to a playoff-i don't think a team without a winning record should be there, but that's life. but arizona has certainly taken the constant criticisms as motivation-they've played like they belong since the playoffs started.

but i don't see SD going east, taking on the steelers-on that field no less, and winning. if they do, they belong.

i think philly is the team to watch-in the last few weeks, they have built momentum, while the giants have looked worse as the season progressed.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by Danzig

but i don't see SD going east, taking on the steelers-on that field no less, and winning. if they do, they belong.

I also think Pittsburgh and it's punch drunk qb should win today ... but it's certainly no slam dunk they will.

[miraja2]

People can say what you want about the BCS, but at least in that system there isn't the chance that a .500 team gets hot at the end and wins a championship. It happened in baseball a few years ago with St. Louis, and it could happen this year in the NFL.
I'll grant that there are plenty of negatives about the BCS, but at least there the team that wins the national championship had to have actually been a good team over the course of the season.

[The Indomitable DrugS]

Originally Posted by miraja2

People can say what you want about the BCS, but at least in that system there isn't the chance that a .500 team gets hot at the end and wins a championship. It happened in baseball a few years ago with St. Louis, and it could happen this year in the NFL.
I'll grant that there are plenty of negatives about the BCS, but at least there the team that wins the national championship had to have actually been a good team over the course of the season.

I hear ya ... but I think college football is a perfect Sport for an 8 team tournament.

Take the winner of the Big 10, Pac 10, SEC, ACC, BIG 12, and BIG East, - and for the final two spots ... take the two highest rated teams from the following confrences: Conference USA, WAC, Sun Belt, Mountain West, MAC, or a 1A Independant if Notre Dame can ever resume its glory days.

Use final year end rankings to seed the schools from 1-through-8.

1 hosts 8, 2 hosts 7, 3 hosts 6, 4 hosts 5.

This way, cold weather schools from the northeast and mid-west aren't handicapped by having to play constantly in warm weather. While these warm weather schools with high concept offenses aren't always playing games in perfect weather conditions.

If this would have happened this year...

you'd have ended up with:

#8 Va Tech at #1 Oklahoma
#7 Cincinnati at #2 Florida
#6 Boise State at #3 USC
#5 Penn State at #4 Utah

And finally - because the schools from warm weather states in the south and west with high concept offenses always deserve a huge edge over cold weather schools who play pro style - the National Championship game will be played in the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, or Orange Bowl alternating years.

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I also think Pittsburgh and it's punch drunk qb should win today ... but it's certainly no slam dunk they will.

it's all up to the Steelers OL how far they go. 3 good games and they win it all. a mediocre-to-poor performance and they are out.

[CSC]

Really proud of the way the Chargers are playing, if they keep playing like this, Steelers are going down today.

[geeker2]

Originally Posted by CSC

Really proud of the way the Chargers are playing, if they keep playing like this, Steelers are going down today.

[Hickory Hill Hoff]

Originally Posted by CSC

Really proud of the way the Chargers are playing, if they keep playing like this, Steelers are going down today.

So am I.....1 play, 17 seconds possession in the 3rd quarter

Steelers!

[31lengths]

Originally Posted by CSC

Really proud of the way the Chargers are playing, if they keep playing like this, Steelers are going down today.

.....going down to Tampa maybe. Man this stinks !