Posted on 01/07/2014 7:27:17 AM PST by Bender2
NFL Postseason Schedule - 2013
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And that just might do it.
Yeah, baby. Attrition takes Indy out.
Looking at all that yard goods... 
I thought back to the old AFL Season of 1963:
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_AFL_season
The AFL had 8 teams, grouped into two divisions. Each team would play a home-and-away game against the other 7 teams in the league for a total of 14 games, and the best team in the Eastern Division would play against the best in the Western Division in a championship game. If there was tie in the standings, a playoff would be held to determine the division winner. San Diego led the Western Division for the entire season, with Oakland following one game behind from Week Eight onward. The Raiders had started at 2–0, then lost four straight, then began a winning streak. Starting from a 2–4–0 handicap was insurmountable, and although Oakland beat San Diego twice (34–33 on October 27, and 41–27 on December 8), they were unable to catch up.
The Eastern race changed in Week Seven, after the Jets lost to Oakland, 49–26, and the Patriots and Oilers tied at 4–3–0 for the lead. Houston pulled ahead the next week, and Boston beat them 45–3 the week after that; the next week, Boston lost 7–6 to San Diego, while Houston beat the Jets 31–27 to pull ahead again. Two weeks later (Week Twelve), San Diego beat Houston 27–0, while Boston led again after a 17–7 win over Buffalo. In Week Thirteen, Boston was at 7–5–1, and Buffalo and Houston right behind. In the final week, spoiler San Diego took out Houston, 20–14. Buffalo won 19–10 over the Jets, while Boston lost 35–3 to Kansas City, giving the Bills and Pats records of 7–6–1 and forcing a playoff.
The season schedule itself was pushed back a week from what was originally planned, owing to President Kennedy's assassination, which resulted in the AFL moving games from that weekend (i.e., the weekend of November 23–24) to the weekend of December 21–22, 1963. Since only three games had been scheduled for the November 23–24 weekend, with Boston and Buffalo both having a bye, moving the November 23–24 games to December 21–22 meant that the Patriots and Bills finished their regular schedule a week before the league's other six teams did. Consequently, the Patriots and Bills could have played their tiebreaker playoff on December 22, leaving the AFL Championship Game for the next weekend (the originally scheduled date), since they knew after games of December 15 that they and they alone had tied for the division title. But the Bills-Patriots Eastern Division playoff was not played until after the regular season ended, being played on Saturday, December 28 (the day before the Chicago-New York NFL Championship Game). This meant that the Boston-San Diego championship game was not played until January 5, 1964. Thus was held the second professional playoff game ever held in January (with the AFL's first ever title playoff on January 1, 1961 being the only time before then that that had occurred). As it happened, the Patriots-Chargers playoff was also latest date on which a non-Super Bowl playoff game was ever held, and it retained that record until the AFC and NFC Championship Games of January 7, 1979. No 14-game season ever ended later.
I recall watching that Boston-San Diego championship game... 
so, big, who won?
Okay, okay, Bend. You poked the polar bear. Here comes... 
those godforsaken Ice Bowl photos again and again--
Here we go!
Looks like the AFC will crap out a juicy turd to represent the conference unless San Diego can pull off the impossible...
Stephen Gostkowski is punting for Pats.
How does he look?
Anything can happen in the SB.
safety was a good move ... but it was inadvertant ... the incomplete pass (attempt) would have worked.
for the San Diego Chargers in the early years of the AFL. In 1963 he led the team in rushing, punt return and kickoff return yards. In the 1963 American Football League Championship game, he accounted for a then NFL regular and postseason record(now just a postseason record) of 329 yards of yards from scrimmage as the Chargers defeated the Boston Patriots 51-10.** From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Lincoln
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/collections/sports/images/ut1984.jpg
Pretty darn good.
Colts have quit.
to call it for ya. Don, you're up-- Turn out the lights... 
the party's over
They say that, 'All good things must end' Let's call it a night... 
the party's over
And tomorrow starts the same old thing... all over again!
Beer's on you, big. Bring me... 
another keg!
-— Anything can happen in the SB. -—
If the Pats get there, and its snowing, they’ll have a big advantage. I like the idea of a snow bowl, even if the Pats don’t make it. Dome bowls are advantageous to dome teams.
my cookies!
Pats got this in hand with a little over 2 minutes to go.
I expect New England will be in Denver next week after the Broncos dispose of the Charger tomorrow.
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