Championship Sunday

[pdga#7648]

This will be the Steelers' fifth appearance in the AFC Championship Game in the past 10 years; their 15 appearances in their conference's championship game is the most in the league since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger; and Sunday's game against the Jets will be the fourth AFC Championship Game at Heinz Field since it opened in 2001.



Jets are 1-7 Alltime @ Pitt including playoffs, with the 1 win coming this year, when Pitt played without Polamalu.
The Jets just beat Indy and New England, 2 GREAT QB's. But they didn't play a Defense like they will see in Pittsburgh Sunday.
Steelers(-3.5) are going to Dallas to play for that 7th ring, Bens 3rd in 7 years!!

Pitt  28
Jets 17











On the other side we have Green Bay(-3.5) @ Chicago, for only the 2nd ever meeting in the playoffs out of a record 182 games between them. Both looked very dominating in their games over the weekend. Rodgers 31-36 passing has to be on the Bears mind. No matter what I have said in the past about the Bears, they have a very good shot at winning this game, if Cutler gets the protection he got today??
I don't think that happens, and Tom will get his Superbowl wish.



Pack 24
Bears 21

[Sr.]

Jets beat the Rapist team by a field goal.

Bears beat the cheeseheads by a safety.


                             

[Jon Brakel]

I'm going with history. EVERY time that the Bears and Packers have matched up against each other in the playoffs, the Bears have won! 

[jasonc]

only in cheeseheadland...

[pdga#7648]

I really love how Rex Ryan ran his mouth about Manning, then Brady and the Patriots.  But haven't heard a peep out of him about his next game 
I think the Jets put all their eggs in 1 basket to beat the Patriots after that embarassment on Monday night.  Or Rex is thinking.... why give that ALL WORLD DEFENSE anything to be fired up about.

[Jon Brakel]

This video pretty much sums up my hatred of the Packers. A hatred that I carried for many years. It took several years of Brett Favre being the Packers QB to get me over the hate and to develop a new respect for the Packers. In my memory the Bears and Packers always played physical but fair and in a manner that fit the times but some time in the 1980's I think the Packers started playing dirty. I always thought that Favre brought the fun back to the Packers and he led them to playing smarter and cleaner while still staying physical...but maybe it was a coaching change or something else.

In the video at the end you'll see the play that I think ultimately ended the career of Jim McMahon. He played for a couple more years but he never fully got over that shoulder injury.

When Lee hit Payton out of bounds I thought at the time that if he'd done that in Chicago they would have had security take him out of the stadium and out of the city moments afterward so he wouldn't be killed!

Go Bears!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwFk_TdRu_0&feature=player_embedded

[Bruce Brakel]

Some of that dirty play was part of the NFL culture.  It's like the fighting in hockey: totally unnecessary except it sold tickets and drove ratings.  After awhile, the owners saw that it was counter-productive to their bottom line to have a high paid player get injured by a post-play blind hit, and now you see a lot less of that. 

And some of it was a side effect of the rampant use of steroids.  Whenever I do steroids for my allergies or for my back, I always have at least on out-of-control incident.  They make me enthusiastic.   

[pdga#7648]

This Sunday is going to be Cutler at his best 

[The Bogey Man]

[pdga#7648]

Congrats Tom.  Turned out to be a good game. Haine about pulled it off.


Hopefully Steelers will do their job, and we'll see ya next week?? 

[discpro99]

...........................................SUPER BOWL!!!!!

[pdga#7648]

17-0 Pittsburgh.


Hey Rex, what was you saying?