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the cards and vikees have not yet sold out for their playoff game.

We would have sold out.

All four road playoff teams are favored in the first round. Three of the road teams have better records than the home teams they are facing. Considering that the home teams are the higher seeds and "supposedly" the better teams, it shows that the NFL may need to rethink its playoff scenarios in the near future.

silverscreenselect wrote:All four road playoff teams are favored in the first round. Three of the road teams have better records than the home teams they are facing. Considering that the home teams are the higher seeds and "supposedly" the better teams, it shows that the NFL may need to rethink its playoff scenarios in the near future.

I think they need four more years of data before they start any rethinking.

silverscreenselect wrote:All four road playoff teams are favored in the first round. Three of the road teams have better records than the home teams they are facing. Considering that the home teams are the higher seeds and "supposedly" the better teams, it shows that the NFL may need to rethink its playoff scenarios in the near future.

I had a rough time choosing a winner for my suicide pool (it's a bottom of the hill pool, with castoffs from the king of the hill).

I guess the "obvious" pick is the Colts, but I dislike Peyton Manning with a passion bordering on absurd. He is less horrible than when I originally began to hate him, but not enough for me to get over it. He does make pretty good TV commercials.

I think the Falcons-Cards game could be great, but I can't root for Atlanta and I don't trust the Cards except their passing game.

Philly could completely clobber the Vikings, as they seem to be peaking at the right time. But I don't trust them.

I finally went with the best defensive team in the bunch, and picked the Ravens. I trust that defense. Not the offense, so they may not win, but there is at least something there to be relied on.

The Philly station mentioned that something like 8000 tix remain unsold in Minny, they are like good, not the kind of crowd noise as usual in a dome, that will help the visitors. Vikes need Kusch to buy up a bunch of tix pronto to prevent a TV blackout.

The Cards went from 30K fans in a 70K stadium to 30 straight sellouts and a season tix wait list. But they are still the Cards...

SportsFan68 wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:All four road playoff teams are favored in the first round. Three of the road teams have better records than the home teams they are facing. Considering that the home teams are the higher seeds and "supposedly" the better teams, it shows that the NFL may need to rethink its playoff scenarios in the near future.

I think they need four more years of data before they start any rethinking.

Exactly.

Ritterskoop wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:All four road playoff teams are favored in the first round. Three of the road teams have better records than the home teams they are facing. Considering that the home teams are the higher seeds and "supposedly" the better teams, it shows that the NFL may need to rethink its playoff scenarios in the near future.

I guess the "obvious" pick is the Colts, but I dislike Peyton Manning with a passion bordering on absurd. He is less horrible than when I originally began to hate him, but not enough for me to get over it. He does make pretty good TV commercials.

well crap

Now I am going to have to rethink my liking of Payton.

Dang, I hate when that happens.

jacorbett70 wrote:The Philly station mentioned that something like 8000 tix remain unsold in Minny, they are like good, not the kind of crowd noise as usual in a dome, that will help the visitors. Vikes need Kusch to buy up a bunch of tix pronto to prevent a TV blackout.

The Cards went from 30K fans in a 70K stadium to 30 straight sellouts and a season tix wait list. But they are still the Cards...

The Vikes got another extension and have until tomorrow afternoon to sell the remaining 3,100 tickets. I think they can do it without me.

We have a shot at the Eagles. If, if, if and bigger if, TJ can handle the blitz. We get down by 10, it is over.

silverscreenselect wrote:All four road playoff teams are favored in the first round. Three of the road teams have better records than the home teams they are facing. Considering that the home teams are the higher seeds and "supposedly" the better teams, it shows that the NFL may need to rethink its playoff scenarios in the near future.

Because bookies have made the road teams 1,1,3,3.5 point favourites???

Why would the opinion of Las Vegas oddsmakers on this years first round games have any bearing on how the NFL seeds its playoff teams and aligns its divsions???