Peyton and Dwight are starters. Reggie and Robert are off the bench. While this game is completely meaningless, it is still cool to see these guys play, especially Peyton. This is your open thread for the Pro Bowl in Hawaii.

The Colts are in the Super Bowl in Tampa Bay. Tony Dungy is retired.

LET'S DRINK!

The sentiment here is that everyone wants Edge to get a ring on his own (sans Jim Irsay's gift to him after the 2006 season). This means we root for the Arizona Cardinals, led by Captain Fumbator himself: Kurt Warner. I personally hope Edge has an MVP-like game. The Cardinals offense was dog meat until Whisenhurt whisened up and re-inserted Edge into the starting line-up just prior to the playoffs.

So, while we like Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin (Dungy discipline) and offesnive coordinator Bruce Arians (Peyton Manning's old QB coach from 1998-2000), we are rooting Red Birds here. We are rooting for Edgerrin James.

This is your open thread. Remember, the drinking game. If you do this drinking game, post pics in the open thread.

I'm kind of "meh" about this Super Bowl. While I'm glad cgolden of Revenge of the Birds gets to blog his team's first Super Bowl (and I'm glad Blitzburgh's team made it as well over, say, the Titans), this Super Bowl just doesn't have my interest like the past two. Obvious, in 2007, I was VERY interested. We all were. Last year, we were still very interested because of the Patriots, Eli, and the great comeback. 

This year, I'm "meh."

I know many here are rooting Arizona because of Edgerrin James. I'm not rooting either way. The only thing I'm rooting for is for Edge to have a great game.

We'll have more open thread throughout the day. Talk and share some pre-game thoughts. Right now, I say 27-10 Steelers.

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Congrats to cgolden and the Cardinals fans at Revenge of the Birds. I feel sick for JasonB and the fans at Bleeding Green Nation. Philly was down 21-6 at halftime, but Donovan McNabb battled back Manning-style and helped Philly take the lead 25-24, but Arizona gained the lead again 32-25. On a 4th down play, McNabb threw to Kevin Curtis, who was interfered with. No call. Unlike Ron Winter in our playoff game this year, who handed San Diego a key third down conversion in OT on a bogus pass interference call, the refs in this game swallowed their whistles.

Officiating in 2008 has been just. utterly. dreadful.

So, the Arizona Cardinals are in the Super Bowl. Edgerrin James is in the Super Bowl. Now, we await the AFC Champs. This is your open thread for the AFC Championship Game.

There will be no repeat champion this year. The NY Giants just became the 4th team in NFL history to lose, as a #1 seed, to the sixth seed (Philadelphia) in the playoffs. The last #1 seed to lose to the #6 seed was Tennessee last night! If the Steelers lose later today, all top seeds will have been eliminated from the playoffs.

This is your open thread for the San Diego v. Pittsburgh game.

Oh, and just to remind you all: The NFC Championship Game is getting played in Arizona next week. Un-freakin-believable.

Well, it seems many here are quite happy the Titans became the second team in modern NFL history to lose as the one seed in the playoffs to a sixth seed. Of course, the first one to do that was our Colts losing to the then-sixth seeded Steelers in the 2005 playoffs. But hey, welcome to the club Tennessee! As we always say, seeding in the playoffs is meaningless. Regular season records and accomplishments are meaningless. Anyone can win, anywhere, at anytime in the playoffs. Congrats to the Baltimore Ravens, led my Jimmy Harbaugh's brother, John.

What I hope this loss does is inform the Tennessee faithful that they simply do not know what they are talking about when they talk about "winning" football. Their fans and their players chirped all year. Now, they're done. Hope this gives them their comeuppance, and that next time they show some respect for their betters.

As for the Cardinals v. the Panthers, Arizona is dominating Carolina now. Jake Delhomme just threw at pick on the 2 yard line, and former Colt Edgerrin James is running all over the Panthers D. This is your open thread.

This is your open thread for today's divisional round games.

I'm not sure how much I'm going to watch, but feel free to discuss today's two games here.  For the first game, check out The Phinsider and Baltimore Beatdown for in-depth analysis and first-hand hand wringing.  For the second game, head over to the Daily Norseman and Bleeding Green Nation.