Pigskin Pickem Thread, Wildcard Playoffs

1-10-26

[Impy]

Fool's Ball, Week Pigskin Pickem Thread, Wildcard Weekend

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In Memoriam Danny Lee (BENDER2)

[Impy]

Hey everyone, the girls and I are back!

"Because they shutdown our Somali daycare."

"I'll miss little Achmed most of all. None of the kids were real but he was a wizard at fingerpainting."

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Rams
Bears
Jaguars
Eagles
Patriots (with help from the snow-clearing crew)
Texans

[Impy]

Pigskin Pickem: Wildcard Weekend

Congrats to our regular season champion LIMESTONE!!!! You win a brand new Cadillac El Dorado!! Second prize is set of steak knives.

Much thanks to Whoisalangreenspan? for managing the contest!!

Let us begin now the playoff contest!

[glennaro]

Normally a good bet to go with the home teams in the first round, but clearly not this year with the Rams, Texans and, quite possibly, the 49ers. Cheers!

Rams
Bears
Jags
Niners
Patriots
Texans

[zzeeman]

Can I get that Caddy in White?

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Bears are home team and chosen by Las Vegas to lose a close one to the Packers.

Over my 65+ years, I’ve learned to \not\ pick against the home team in a Black&Blue Division match-up.
Unless it’s the Lions (pick the Vegas favorite).

Bears by ... maybe 6.

[OttawaFreeper]

NFL championship droughts for the current playoff teams:
1963-San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers (AFL)
1965-Buffalo Bills (AFL)
1985-86-Chicago Bears
1994-San Francisco 49ers
1995-Jacksonville Jaguars-expansion team-never have won a championship
1995-Carolina Panthers-expansion team-never have won a championship
2002-Houston Texans-expansion team-never have won a championship
2008-Pittsburgh Steelers
2010-Green Bay Packers
2013-Seattle Seahawks-1st Super Bowl championship
2015-Denver Broncos
2018-New England Patriots
2021-Los Angeles Rams
2024-Philadelphia Eagles-defending Super Bowl champions

Note that the all time NFL droughts are 1947-Chicago/St Louis/Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals, 1957-Detroit Lions, and 1960-Minnesota Vikings but did not qualify for playoffs this season.

[Tommy Revolts]

[OttawaFreeper]

As a further note, the all time historical Super Bowl could involve the Chargers or Bills against the Bears or 49ers (the oldest droughts in this year’s playoff group). All have appeared in at least one Super Bowl.

The Detroit Lions remain the oldest NFL team to have never appeared in a Super Bowl as the Cardinals did in 2008(Super Bowl XLIII against Pittsburgh) and Minnesota appeared in four (1969-Super Bowl IV, 1973-Super Bowl VIII, 1974-Super Bowl IX, and 1976-Super Bowl XI).

[glennaro]

I just hope Prime can provide a decent video stream ... something they haven’t been able to do consistently for every NFL game I’ve watched on Prime!

[woodbutcher1963]

I just hate that I am going to have to listen to Chris Collinsworth on the Pats game

Maybe I will turn the sound down and listen to it on the radio while watching TV

[1FreeAmerican]

Prime live streaming sucks!

[Tommy Revolts]

I've got to go with the Bears for this game.

Home field and the Packers are out of gas.

aka Warpaint

[USS Alaska]

Prime live streaming sucks!

All streaming sucks, Prime is the worst, slowest, least dependable and has the absolute worst TV crew on the planet.

I have prime and would love to peek in on the game, but life is too short to sit and wait on a spinning arrow.

They need better technology.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Wild Card Weekend:

Panthers
Bears
Jags
Eagles
Patriots
Steelers

[T.B. Yoits]

The NFL showed their true colors when they spit in the face of all Americans, kneeling in solidarity with Communist organizations such as Black Lives Matter^TM.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Cleveland Browns have never been to a Super Bowl?

Although I know people often talk about how the original Cleveland Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens. So the franchise has won two Super Bowls.

I know some people say that, technically, the NFL considers the Cleveland Browns franchise to have been suspended or deactivated after the 1995 season, and then reactivated in 1999. And that they technically consider the Baltimore Ravens to have been a newly created franchise.

[epluribus_2]

The Detroit Lions remain the oldest NFL team to have never appeared in a Super Bowl

...and to keep this tradition alive at all cost, the officials do everything in their power to insure this, imho. (wait call NY for a ruling... Hahahahahahahaaaa!)

[gloryblaze]

I just hate that I am going to have to listen to Chris Collinsworth on the Pats game...

I think he and Mike Tirico are amazing!

[Dr. Sivana]

I know some people say that, technically, the NFL considers the Cleveland Browns franchise to have been suspended or deactivated after the 1995 season, and then reactivated in 1999. And that they technically consider the Baltimore Ravens to have been a newly created franchise.

That is a fiction created by the NFL to keep Cleveland from being destroyed. The Browns of yore are one of the most storied franchises in pro football (including AAFL) history. Who wants to give up the legacy of Jim Brown, Otto Graham and Marion Motley?

But it is a legal fiction, unless you want to pretend that Cleveland sold all its players and coaches, and the owner started up a "new" team with all those same players and coaches during a moving van ride of 600 miles.