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The thing is that the Colts actually matched up with the Patriots way better than the Steelers or Falcons do. With the way New England won today, I can't see anything that can keep them from winning another Super Bowl.

OK, I can pretty much guarantee that the Eagles are losing next week. Not quite to the point that I'll request to be banned if they win, but I'm really, really confident about it.

Yeah, I can't believe I went against my original Super Bowl call of Pats over Falcons, and picked the Colts. I'm certainly not going to make the same mistake next week.

I definitely try to avoid it. It's OK if you're a member of the school, or if you gambled on the team, but just as a fan, not really.

God, that was an excruciating loss. If anyone's questioning it, the Jets absolutely should have tried to get closer there. They had a minute and a half left on the clock on second down, and they just ran out the clock. Was Herman Edwards too busy fighting with his assistants to watch the Chargers game last week? How could he have completely missed that Schottenheimer had made the exact same mistake to give the Jets the game. I could have maybe understood it if they were playing the Colts or something, but if Brien made the FG, there was pretty much no danger of Roethlisberger engineering a 50 yard drive to tie the game. All they had to do was make the field goal and they were in the AFC Championship. They should only have let it run to about a minute and then passed the ball for a first down. Edwards has to know that his kicker's already missed from five yards further out, and that he's not going to be confident at all unless they get inside 40. I'd say the 1 in 25 chance that Pennington's going to throw an interception is a lot more acceptable risk than the 1 in 3 chance that Brien's going to miss a lengthy field goal.

That picture's really hot. Normally I wouldn't mention that considering she's 15, but I'm drunk and I know this board's 90% pedophiles anyway.

The Jets at least have a chance to go to the Super Bowl. We all know for a fact that the Eagles will choke in the NFC Championship game.

Are you insane or just stupid? WHEN on EARTH have Rock and Eddie had the chance to work with each other? I recall a really fun TV match in 2002 but THAT IS IT. Any other matches they may have happened would have been 3 minute TV specials. Please don't show such stupidity again. Oh, and BTW, the Rock/Eddie segment to set up the match was great. Eddie was playing a different character to the one he's playing now, which is why he was made fun of. Eddie would hold his own if he cut similar promos to the ones he cut on Brock last year. I really do believe that Eddie is one of the few guys who could be cheered over Rock. We wouldn't know until it happened, of course, but I believe that would be the case. Have Rock as a face, and the crowd will favour Eddie. Hell Rock may be cheered over Eddie, though. What purpose would Rock vs JBL serve? What would Rock going over JBL do for anyone? That's the match I was talking about. The whole show was great, and then Eddie's stupid caricature of a character just looked retarded against Rock's well-developed interesting character. I was really into the show and then their stupid promo almost made me change the channel. I'm sure that the actual match would be fine, as the original TV match was pretty good if I remember right, but the fans wouldn't care about the match at all going in, and it would definitely "serve no purpose." Meanwhile, JBL's only redeeming quality is his heel heat. What better gift to the fans for the biggest show of the year, then to just let him lose to someone with more face heat than any regular on either roster. If the title's on the line against Cena or someone, it will be too predictable because the heel always loses at Wrestlemania, but Rock/JBL will be a fun match that could go either way. Also, JBL doesn't really have the status to main event Wrestlemania right now, even if he has held the title for a while, but a feud with Rock would make sure that he didn't drop too far after losing the belt, and end up like Jericho with a ticket straight to midcard hell after losing the title.

If they didn't have a shot clock in the NCAA, that would be every Cougar game until Dick Bennett got fired. Seriously, I think they get suspended from the team for two games or something if they shoot before the shot clock hits 15.

First of all, they don't use 70 wrestlers now. They use about 20 per show, so to keep it at that level, they'd only have to use 40. That wouldn't be difficult at all. Have two heel stables and a face stable, that's 14 guys right there. Then, outside the stables, have 4 real face tag teams and 4 real heel tag teams. That makes 30 guys. Two heel main eventers and two face main eventers besides two of the stable leaders makes 34 guys. Then have another 3 heels who wrestle in the upper midcard, and another 3 faces who wrestler in the upper midcard. That make 40 guys. Finally, besides that you can have 3 faces and heels who are midcard projects, that get time on the big shows two or three times a month. That makes a main roster of 46 men with another 10 or 15 jobbers who wrestle on Heat and Velocity untl one of the midcard projects gets demoted. One thing to remember is that not everyone has to wrestle every show to be "used." Stable members can help with beatdowns or say a couple words during interviews, while a tag team can just have a backstage segment, talking about aiming for the title, even if they can't actually get a shot for a month or two. Also, if someone loses a match on Raw, there's no reason they need to turn around and get another match on Smackdown. A larger roster makes it feel like there's real competition rather than the same "only face team takes on only heel team" matches we see three times a month now.

Back on the Eddie/Rock idea, I think it's terrible. The two have terrible chemistry together, and Rock's mic skills always make Eddie look like shit. No matter how they tried to play it, Eddie would end up as the heel, and it would just be kind of boring. Angle definitely needs to face HBK, so I'd keep Rock busy with someone like JBL, having JBL job the title before Mania, and then letting Rock beat him again, since we all now he's headed back to the midcard as soon as he finally loses the belt anyway. Oh, and if Brock Lesnar does come back, he definitely needs to win the Royal Rumble and main event on the Smackdown side. I always thought that a surprise entrant winning the Royal Rumble would be absolutely awesome.

Why do they have to fire everyone if they end the brand extension? Right now, they have the same people having the same matches against the same opponents every week. If they combined the rosters, they could have a real tag division with six or seven teams, and they could actually flesh out a few different stables, rather than having one stable with three members be the focus of every show. Look at New Year's Revolution. Everyone remotely capable of main eventing was thrown into the EC, and the only undercard match with any singles wrestlers that were even in the upper midcard was Kane vs. Snitsky. Also, we're forced to see one of the losers get a title shot again next month. If say Orton and Batista had both won undercard matches while, three current Smackdown wrestlers were also in the EC, it would have actually made sense for them to fight to get the title shot. If you remember right, part of the allure of the RR used to be that anyone could get a title shot, but now it doesn't even matter because everyone even slightly qualified has already gotten a shot at the title. I'm not saying that the writers would actually do anything good if the brand extension ended, but there are certainly plenty of possibilities to use the whole roster if the two brands were combined. If somehow I took over the WWE, and it became my full-time job to run/book the company, I'd probably end the brand extension.

Nah, the Pac Ten was extremely weak last year, and Stanford didn't play a very tough OOC schedule which allowed them to be somewhat of a paper tiger. Illinois absolutely dominated Wake Forest and Gonzaga to the point where I have no doubt that they're legit. If they don't make it to the Final Four, it would be an absolute shock.

I want to see Tilt, but as a real sports fan, I'm gonna have to make it a priority to go ot the Cougar basketball game instead. But, geez missing the season premiere of Tilt and the OC? I need a VCR bad.

LMFAO Prove that it's the authorative Word of God. Really. Do it. Yeah, he wouldn't say that if he saw the 500 page book in HD trying to do that very thing.

Try the chicken pot pies. They're only 50 cents.

understatement of the century. I'm not a big enough dick to leave it there very long, but this is so funny that I have to put it in my sig.

I can't believe that everybody remembers those, but not the one that's the focus of every single commercial. "If you want to hurt him in a cash game, you've got to get out of the kiddie pool and start making some moves."

There's a big story on Page 2 that goes through this in depth. It basically shows that a good offense is just as important to a championship team as a good defense, and that a good passing game is actually more important than a good running game.

The Yankees for spending 200 million dollars a year and always winning the AL East, the Raiders because that whole badass thing is so gay, and the Oklahoma Sooners solely because of our friend Damaramu.

So, you're basically saying that great offenses can get to the Super Bowl, but not win? If that's your argument, (and a pretty simplistic argument it is), it still does nothing to keep the Colts from beating the Pats and then winning their next game against the Jets/Steelers.

OK, I too went 3-1 on Wildcard weekend, and here's what I see in the next round. Eagles over Vikings: The Eagles are on paper, a much better team, even without TO, and we all know that the trademark Eagles collapse doesn't hit until the NFC Championship game. Falcons over Rams: Only playing the biggest choke artists in the NFC allowed the Rams to escape the first round unscathed. A tremendous Falcons defense and a couple big plays from Michael Vick should make sure that doesn't happen in the second round. Colts over Patriots: I've been on the Pats bandwagon all year as far as the team I actually believed was going to win the Super Bowl, and I think that even now they could probably beat the Steelers, but I really don't see how they can stop that Colts offense without Ty Law. When you have the best passing offense in history against a team whose secondary is missing their best player, it's just an impossible matchup. Jets over Steelers: Getting John Abraham back (if he comes back) should be a huge lift for the defense. The Jets have one of the best defenses in the league, and if they can shut down Betti like they shut down Tomlinson, the Steelers will have to force some throws, and Roethlisberger will make some mistakes. I just think that with most of the other matchups even, I'd a lot rather have Pennington at QB than Roethlisberger in a pressure-packed playoff game.

Yeah, UConn isn't shit this year. In fact, the Sooners are actually favored over them. They're coasting by on name recognition from last year, but this year, they probably won't even make it to the Sweet 16.

I didn't watch the game, but I also wondered why anyone was blaming the defense. I mean, how many playoff games do you think teams win when their QB has 1 TD and 4 INTs. Maybe 2 or 3 percent tops?

Actually, I can kind of see why Pedro would go to the Mets. He already won his World Series in Boston last year, so he can be satisfied with that, and what New York is offering him is security that he'll be able to continue to pitch in the majors or get paid if he's too injured to play. It's really the number of years on the deal more than the dollars that got Pedro. Back on Jason Kidd and the Nets, they maybe didn't "intentionally lose", but they didn't bother to play defense, work the ball around, or anything else that wasn't connected to their personal stats. Since Kidd's primary stats are points and assists, I'm sure he made to keep those high, but as far as playing help defense or going after loose balls, he just skipped it altogether.