And I thought only Colorado and Oregon legalized pot. Keep enjoying whatever it is you are smoking.
Part of me would like to see Denver go out there and have a Super Bowl rematch with San Francisco. How great would that be? I see it in the local papers a lot, but it's not that likely though it fills the bill for wishful thinking. Denver and New England look good against bad AFC opponents but this is a different situation now.
I write what I think will happen and as much as I get pissed off of having a historical Green Bay or Dallas ('90s era) get in the way of the Niners, if the opponent is better I try to say so. Rodgers is so hot right now with four great receivers that he would destroy a Denver or New England. The AFC is just not there and hasn't been in the last four out of five years.
We look at the two times NE lost against a team with a pedestrian record like the NY Giants but what people fail to see is WHO NY had to beat to even get that record or to get into Super Bowl (Smith led 49ers, Packers, Redskins, Cowboys, Eagles). It wasn't an easy path for Manning and NY to get to either Super Bowl and the hard schedule didn't tell the whole story about the numbers behind their regular season records. It's no shock that someone like a Giants beat NE twice in five years. On NE's side, they had great records but didn't play the best as much.
Again, in 2013 we have two AFC teams in #1 and #2 seeds but having played an arguable easy schedule in weak divisions. That's why I say nobody in AFC has a chance in Super Bowl. There's a reason in last 4 our of 5 years an NFC team took it. Sure, I risk pissing off half of the football fans here, but unless AFC gets better, they are going to win on average
a Super Bowl for every four or five they play. I don't want to see the cheese heads beat their chest again and put up another stupid banner in their facility (which btw, has been out of space for banners) but it's a pretty good possibility if Atlanta or SF doesn't get there. I hope the eventual AFC champ puts up a fight in Super Bowl but the real fighting, at least in this era, will be on the NFC side. The 1970s and 2000s were a better time for AFC, while NFC had the 1980s and 1990s, and last half of the decade for dominance.
Like the 1990s, the real Super Bowl will be played on the NFC side, similar to the '90s when you had strong Niners, Packers, and Cowboys teams all playing on levels no AFC team could attempt to match.
In the 3 years that SF and Dallas met in NFC championship, the papers got it right calling that the real Super Bowl and the winner of NFC championship was the go ahead winner for Super Bowl, which was just merely a formality.
If anything, there is more motivation for NE or Denver to win, at least from the perspective of the quarterbacks. Neither has too many years left in NFL and while both have felt what it's like to win the Super Bowl and have great career numbers, both lost in their last appearances in the big game. If I were them I would want to leave this league as a winner so if this is last Super Bowl in career, which is a distinct possibility for either great quarterback, then there's that extra reason to win it all that no other quarterback has. Nobody puts Brady (3-2) or Manning (1-1) in the same sentence as Bradshaw (4) or Montana (4) in the context of Super Bowl because the latter two never lost that game. At the very least, for postseason dominance, a Brady or P. Manning need that last Super Bowl win if that is the case.
