[nickcarraway]

This guy should be banned for watching football for 5 years.

[CommieCutter]

You don’t want Seattle making the NFC title game or the Super Bowl. You really don’t.

Actually I do. Colts are done so I have nothing left to root for but an underdog.

[noexcuses]

You don’t want Seattle making the NFC title game or the Super Bowl.

Actually I do too! GO SEAHAWKS!!

[Cheburashka]

Seattle fulfilled the requirements to be seeded in the playoffs. Then they beat the Saints by the simple trick of scoring more points than the Saints. What could be more outrageous?

This buffoon should be beaten with sticks daily until he gains twenty IQ points.

[sappy]

so, is NBC, a giant corporation, saying it is putting profits first by coming out against a small market team like the Seahawks?

[Carpe Cerevisi]

What does he suggest...some BCS type crap?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

DaBearsss...

[hilaryrhymeswithrich]

go bears!!!!!

[BenLurkin]

Is this black propaganda — intended to make the reader WANT to root for the Seahawks?

[Rio]

Can we all agree to just let Drew choose who should play in the superbowl? That would save a LOT of time spent in the regular season and playoffs.

[John W]

Drew is exactly right and anything else reeks of 2011 everybody gets a trophy obamanism. And, the Bears are my wife’s team and after thirty-one years I treasure her good moods.

[hflynn]

All that said, this was still a bad team that lucked into a playoff spot and now we have to watch them for a second straight week.

Seattle did not luck into anything. Seattle won their division. If a team wins their division they are in the playoffs period, even if the team's division winning record is 1 - 15. If you want to talk luck then talk Wild Card, like the JETS for instance.

[ilgipper]

I would be happy to see them knock of the Bears next week. Go Pack!

[canuck_conservative]

We only get so many of these playoff games. We want to know they’ll be played at a high level

OK, so explain all those SuperBowl blowouts in the last 20 years - there's a reason the "SuperBore" name stuck.

It's just the playoffs. As long as you win, you go on. And if you don't win, you don't deserve to go on. Simple.

[Logic n' Reason]

There ARE easy ways to cure this...and the entire NFL issue.

1. Top salary for any player is $95K/ year

2. Top ticket price (limited to 10% of the total seats available) is $10; all the rest are $6

3. Helmets will return to the leather variety with the leather chin strap...no faceguards allowed.

4. The only pads that can be worn are shoulder pads.

5. The season will be 12 games long....period.

6. Once per team per season (on an "ad hoc" basis and without any warning whatsoever) there will be no electronics allowed AT ALL (no headsets, no microphones, no radios, no telephones, ... no nothing); no coaching staff in booths, skyboxes, in fact anywhere in the stadium at all, three coaches on the sidelines per team and medical staff. That's it.

7. All football "stadiums" will be roof-less; all games will be played regardless. If a team doesn't show up, they forfeit.

8. There will be no "wildcard" teams at all.

9. The "Superbowl" will be re-named the "United States Football Championship"; there will be no "entertainment" at Halftime other than a band per team and cheerleaders.

10. There will be no "instant replay", no "challenges", no "booth reviews". What the refs rule stands.

That should fix things up good.

[KoRn]

It’d be funny as hell if they won the Super Bowl. I’d love to see it happen! LOL

[discostu]

One of the great parts about 1 and done tournaments is the possibility for the “how the hell did they pull that off” winner. Although truthfully the Seahawks over the Saints wasn’t that big an upset. I predicted last week it would be a one score game because the Saints really haven’t been that good this year and they were missing their two best runners, and one score games are really all about who had the big plays.

I wouldn’t mind the Seahawks going deeper, heck it might even be cool to see them win it all just to irritate Holmgren.

[Nitehawk0325]

Lol, just 5 years?? The Bears will take out the Seahawks this weekend and at the end, Brady and the Patriots will get another ring. No one can touch the Pats and the Jets will feel the wrath this coming weekend. Everyone can just watch in awe when Brady runs onto the field and leads his men to another winning season.
I can't wait to get the hate mail from this post. LOL

[normy]

Every Wildcard visiting team had a better record than the home team (GB actually tied Philly but beat them regular season). Every Wildcard visiting team won except New Orleans. Seattle won a great game and deserve to go to Da Bears. If the Hawks win and Green Bay wins they will host the NFC Championship game. If the HAwks beat 11-5 defending champs, 11-5 NFC North Champs and either the NFC champs or the PAckers(who will by then be 12-6) they should go to the Superbowl.

I wouldn't mind seeing a Seahawks/Steelers Superbowl again but I still think the Pats will be there. Go Seahawks!!

[Acrobat]

Dear America:Whatever happened to the America that loved the "Hickory State", the "Amazing Mets", the underdogs, the Cinderella team of March madness?

Isn't there something wrong when we have to see the mighty British defeat the upstart American patriots?

When the lowly defeat the mighty, it's American!

Note to journalist: See David vs Goliath

We watch sports because the games matter!

[60Gunner]

Seattle may have lost more than they won, but they won all the games that counted. It is what it is. They won their division fair and square and thus deserve as fair a shot at the Lombardi trophy as any other team in the playoffs.

These big-market loudmouths need to STFU and let the teams go for it.