sobs woman who rooted for Underdogs Upsetting Other People's Teams all divisional round.

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We've had “Super Wild Card Weekend” (i.e. six wild card games instead of the previous four) twice now, which I think is officially a sufficient sample size to say that it sucks. The seven seeds don't belong there (because they aren't very good). The two seeds don't belong there (because we should have a bye). Six games is too many games. Sure, I ( Read more... )

In the words of Travis Kelce crashing Patrick Mahomes’s postgame interview on live television, ”I fucking love you, baby.”

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HBO Partners with Major League Baseball to Promote Game of Thrones Season 7

Although I think A Song of Ice and Fire would pair better with American football, and not just because grrm posts about football weekly during the season. I really want an AU where all the provinces of Westeros have football teams, or possibly are football teams, and the plot ( Read more... )

Alex Smith mic'd up at Pro Bowl practice

I can't even adequately explain why this is so delightful to me. It's just. Green is Philip Rivers's comfort color, okay?

I have been given to understand that the NFL Pro Bowl is for losers which is why I will definitely be watching. Honestly, a game with no real stakes sounds kind of soothing.

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Life is meaningless and full of pain.

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Way back during Week 1, after the Chiefs rallied from a 21-point deficit, Melissa Etheridge tweeted this:

Might be the only man I want to write a love song to... #AlexSmith @Chiefs #ChiefsKingdom #Chiefs #ArrowheadStadium
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Four games, no upsets, and none of them were even particularly close. Yawn.

Realistically it was always going to be the Steelers next week. I'm sure Andy Reid has been decorating his sheet cakes accordingly.

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Reviving this feature because it's wild card weekend eve and you'd probably wonder why there is suddenly NFL content on your friendslist, and the answer is that
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